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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#4401

Joseph O’rourke

#114164

Overall Influence

#4402

Joseph C. Wu

#114174

Overall Influence

#4403

Constant Mews

#28596

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Constant Mews , D. Phil is Professor of Medieval Thought and Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, Melbourne. He is an authority on medieval religious thought, especially on the medieval philosopher and theologian, Peter Abelard, and on interfaith dialogue. He discovered and published what are possibly the original letters exchanged between Peter Abelard and his lover, Heloise.

#4404

Joseph Oliger

#72131

Overall Influence

1941 - 2005 (64 years)

Joseph E. Oliger was an American computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. Oliger was the co-founder of the Science in Computational and Mathematical Engineering degree program at Stanford, and served as the director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science.

#4405

Paolo Rosso

#114192

Overall Influence

#4406

Cheng Zhi Huang

#114206

Overall Influence

#4407

Anne Trefethen

#57192

Overall Influence

Anne Elizabeth Trefethen FREng is Pro Vice-Chancellor , and professor of Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of St Cross College. Her work in industry and academia focuses on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high-performance computing.

#4408

Helmut Alt

#97429

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Helmut Alt is a German computer scientist whose research concerns graph algorithms and computational geometry. He is known for his work on matching geometric shapes, including methods for efficiently computing the Fréchet distance between shapes. He was also the first to use the German phrase "Algorithmische Geometrie" [algorithmic geometry] to refer to computational geometry. He is a professor of computer science at the Free University of Berlin.

#4409

Laurens J. P. Van Der Maaten

#114253

Overall Influence

#4410

Gabe Newell

#77407

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Gabe Logan Newell , nicknamed Gaben, is an American businessman and the president of the video game company Valve. Newell was born in Colorado and grew up in Davis, California. He attended Harvard University in the early 1980s but dropped out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first versions of the Windows operating system. He and another employee, Mike Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, and funded the development of their first game, Half-Life . Harrington left in 2000.

#4411

AAMS Arefin Siddique

AAMS Arefin Siddique

#39662

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Abu Ahsan Mohammad Shamsul Arefin Siddique is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the 27th vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka during 2009–2017. On 15 July 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the board of directors of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha .

#4412

Chen Dong

#114275

Overall Influence

#4413

Klaus Pohl

#95701

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Klaus Pohl is a German computer scientist and Professor for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen, mainly known for his work in Requirements Engineering and Software product line engineering.

#4414

Serge Rivest

#114305

Overall Influence

#4415

João J. R. Fraústo da Silva

#44515

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

João J. R. Fraústo da Silva was a Portuguese chemist. Fraústo da Silva received his degree in industrial chemical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico in 1958 and his D.Phil. in chemistry working with Harry Irving at the University of Oxford in 1962. He held several positions throughout his career, which features:Director of the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon;President's Office of Research and Planning of Educational Action of the Ministry of Education;First Rector of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa;Minister of Education and Universities in the ...

#4416

Mario Gerla

#101787

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Mario Gerla was an Italian computer scientist and engineer, Distinguished Professor, Jonathan B. Postel Chair and Chair of the Department of Computer Science of University of California, Los Angeles . He co-authored 11 books. He died in 2019.

#4417

Yolanda Sanz

#114318

Overall Influence

#4418

Luciano Adorini

#114323

Overall Influence

#4419

Jack Cole

#71848

Overall Influence

1925 - 1997 (72 years)

Alfred Jack Cole was a professor at the School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is credited with building on the establishing of Computer Science at St Andrews. Career Cole studied mathematics at University College London, completing his PhD on the theory of numbers in 1952. He then worked as a lecturer at Heriot-Watt College in Edinburgh until 1956, when he moved to Queen’s College, Dundee. His interest in the potential of computer technology resulted in a move to University of Leicester in 1962, as Director of the Computing Laboratory. In 1965 he returned to Sc...

#4420

Richard J. Telfer

#94443

Overall Influence

Richard J. Telfer is an American educator and interim President of the University of Wisconsin System in 2014. Telfer received his bachelor's and master's degree from Central Michigan University and his doctorate from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He taught at University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and was chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Telfer was named chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Whitewater in 2008 and had served as provost and vice-chancellor and associate vice-chancellor. In October 2013, Telfer was named interim President of the University of Wisconsin System replacing Kevin P.

#4421

Farid Uddin Ahmed

#39586

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Farid Uddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi academic and vice-chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. Education and career Ahmed completed his master's degree in economics degree from Monash University. He had served as a professor of the department of economics and the dean of faculty of social sciences at the University of Dhaka.

#4422

Earl W. Bascom

#6137

Overall Influence

1906 - 1995 (89 years)

Earl Wesley Bascom was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, cowboy, rodeo performer, inventor, and Hollywood actor. Raised in Canada, he portrayed in works of fine art his own experiences of cowboying and rodeoing across the American and Canadian West. Bascom was awarded the Pioneer Award by the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 2016 and inducted into several halls of fame including the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1984. Bascom was called the "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists," the "Dean of Rodeo Cowboy Sculpture" and the "Father of Modern Rodeo." He was a participant member of the Church of Jesu...

#4423

Alok Nidhi Choudhary

#114435

Overall Influence

#4424

Young Moo Lee

#114446

Overall Influence

#4425

Sarah L. Waters

#48216

Overall Influence

Sarah Louise Waters is a British applied mathematician whose research interests include biological fluid mechanics, tissue engineering, and their applications in medicine. She is a professor of applied mathematics in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Society.

#4426

Zhouchen Lin

#114460

Overall Influence

#4427

Bertram Wiedenmann

#114467

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#4428

Christian Mueller

#114477

Overall Influence

#4429

Zigang Dong

#114490

Overall Influence

#4430

Bill Bridges

#80307

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Bill Bridges is an American role-playing game developer and fantasy author. He designed the role-playing games Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, and Promethean: The Created. He additionally worked on a video game based on his Fading Suns role-playing game Emperor of the Fading Suns. He is currently a developer at Holistic Design.

#4431

Alan B. Zonderman

#114544

Overall Influence

#4432

Jeff Edmonds

#73718

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Jeff Edmonds is a Canadian and American mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational complexity theory. Academic career Edmonds received his Bachelors at Waterloo in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1993 at University of Toronto. His thesis proved lower bounds on time-space tradeoffs. He did his post-doctorate work at the ICSI in Berkeley on secure data transmission over networks for multi-media applications. He joined Department of EECS at Lassonde School of Engineering York University in 1995.

#4433

Mahmoud Torabinejad

#114569

Overall Influence

#4434

Chengqi Zhang

#114600

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

#4435

Suchart Siengchin

#114605

Overall Influence

#4436

Sam Viviano

#29656

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sam Viviano is an American caricature artist and art director. Viviano's caricatures are known for their wide jaws, which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well as front views into his distortions of the human face. He has also developed a reputation for his ability to do crowd scenes. Explaining his twice-yearly covers for Institutional Investor magazine, Viviano has said that his upper limit is sixty caricatures in nine days.

#4437

Layne T. Watson

#114619

Overall Influence

#4438

Jae Su Yu

#114630

Overall Influence

#4439

Inman Harvey

#92785

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Inman Harvey is a former senior lecturer in computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of Sussex; he is now a visiting senior research fellow at the same university. His research interests largely centre on the development of artificial evolution as an approach to the design of complex systems. Application domains of interest include evolutionary robotics, evolvable hardware, molecules for pharmaceutical purposes.

#4440

Jennifer Steinkamp

#55376

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Jennifer Steinkamp is an American installation artist who works with video and new media in order to explore ideas about architectural space, motion, and perception. Life and career Born in Denver, Colorado in 1958, Steinkamp is the eldest of five children, three girls and two boys. Her family lived in a number of areas before settling in Edina, Minnesota. In 1979, Steinkamp moved to Los Angeles to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, studying with Mike Kelley, Gene Youngblood, and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe. She then transferred to the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied experimental animation.

#4441

Mauro Conti

#114685

Overall Influence

#4442

George Hripcsak

#114686

Overall Influence

#4443

Chang-shui Zhang

#114701

Overall Influence

#4444

Baruch Rinkevich

#114704

Overall Influence

#4445

Gerard Johan Holzmann

#114713

Overall Influence

#4446

Nikolaus Pfanner

#114728

Overall Influence

#4447

J. A. K. Tareen

J. A. K. Tareen

#13616

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Jalees Ahmed Khan Tareen, also known as J.A.K. Tareen, was born in Mysore, Karnataka, India in 1947. He was the vice-chancellor of B. S. Abdur Rahman University, in Chennai, India from 2013 to 31 March 2015. He was the recipient of the Padma Shri award 2009 for the Literature & Education given by the Government of India. He is one of the current advisory board member of South Asia Foundation from India.

#4448

Yasuhiro Iwasawa

#114750

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

#4449

Luc van Loon

#114757

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

#4450

Louiqa Raschid

#80701

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Louiqa Raschid is a computer scientist in the USA who specializes in data base management and data science with applications in biology, medicine, financial and socio-economic data and disaster management. She is a professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business and UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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