John Charnley

Sir John Charnley, CBE, FRS (29 August 1911 – 5 August 1982) was a British orthopaedic surgeon. He pioneered the hip replacement operation, which is now one of the most common operations both in the UK and elsewhere in the world, and created the "Wrightington centre for hip surgery". He also demonstrated the fundamental importance of bony compression in operations to arthrodese (fuse) joints, in particular the knee, ankle and shoulder. Charnley also influenced generations of orthopaedic surgeons through his textbook on conservative fracture treatment  which was first published in 1950.


John Domingue

John Domingue (born ca 1961) is a British academic, Professor at and Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University in Milton Keynes., and researcher in the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Services, Blockchain and Education.


John G. Breslin

John Breslin (born 1973 in Dublin) is an Irish engineer and senior lecturer at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research publications have focused on the Social Semantic Web, and he co-authored a book on this topic in 2009. In 2015, Breslin co-founded the Galway City Innovation District to create startup-friendly spaces in downtown Galway. The first space, the PorterShed, is a refurbished former Guinness building that opened to startups in April 2016.


John Shawe-Taylor

John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK). His main research area is statistical learning theory.


John Somers Dines

John Somers Dines (18 June 1885 – 15 May 1980) was an English meteorologist. Dines was born in the Cuckfield district, West Sussex, the son of meteorologist William Henry Dines and grandson of meteorologist George Dines. He graduated from Cambridge in 1906, with a degree in mathematics. He worked with his father, at Pyrton Hill, Oxfordshire, for a year, carrying out investigations of the upper atmosphere. In September 1907, Dines became employed by the Met Office. In 1912, he became responsible for the new branch of the Met Office at South Farnborough, where investigations of wind structure for the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics were conducted. Accompanied by G.M.B. Dobson in autumn 1913, he visited six stations in Germany to see how they dealt with forecasting and aviation work.


John Stamper

John Trevor Stamper (12 October 1926 – 15 November 2003) was a British aeronautical engineer who was Corporate Technical Director of British Aerospace from 1977 to 1985 and chief designer of the Blackburn Buccaneer strike aircraft. Born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School where he was head boy in 1943 and Jesus College, Cambridge where he read aeronautical engineering.


John Tsitsiklis

Dr. John N. Tsitsiklis (born 1958, Thessaloniki, Greece) is Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT.


John Tukey

John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS (/ˈtuːki/; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name.


John V. Guttag

John Vogel Guttag (born 1949) is an American computer scientist, professor, and former Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He is also one of the founders of HEALTH[at]SCALE Technologies, a machine learning and artificial intelligence startup focusing on improving healthcare outcomes, costs, and satisfaction through advanced predictive technologies that evaluate and act on personalized health predictions.


John Winn

John Frederick Winn (24 March 1921 – 24 June 2015) was a soldier of the British Army who won both a Military Cross and a Silver Star in 1944 in Italy during the Second World War.


Jonathan Schaeffer

Jonathan Herbert Schaeffer (born 1957) is a Canadian researcher and professor at the University of Alberta and the Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He led the team that wrote Chinook, the world's strongest American checkers player, after some relatively good results in writing computer chess programs. He is involved in the University of Alberta GAMES group developing computer poker systems. Schaeffer is also a member of the research group that created Polaris, a program designed to play the Texas Hold'em variant of poker. He is a Founder of Onlea, which produces online learning experiences.


Jon M. Kleinberg

Jon Michael Kleinberg is an American computer scientist and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University known for his work in algorithms and networks. He is a recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union.


Josef Kittler

Josef Kittler FREng is a British scientist and Distinguished Professor at University of Surrey, specializing in pattern recognition and machine intelligence.


Joseph Gonzalez

Joseph A. Gonzalez (born 1950) is the Global Director of Design at Ghafari Associates, an international architecture and engineering firm headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. His base of operation is the firm's Chicago office.


Joseph Hilbe

Joseph Michael Hilbe (born December 30, 1944) is an American statistician and philosopher, founding President of the International Astrostatistics Association(IAA) and one of the most prolific authors of books on statistical modeling in the early twenty-first century. Hilbe is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association as well as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he founded the ISI astrostatistics committee in 2009. Hilbe is also a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and Full Member of the American Astronomical Society.


Joseph M. Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein (born 7 June 1968) is professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on database systems and computer networks. He co-founded Trifacta with Jeffrey Heer and Sean Kandel in 2012, which stemmed from their research project, Wrangler.


Joseph Mariani

Joseph Mariani (born Joseph-Jean Mariani; February 1, 1950) is a French computer science researcher and pioneer in the field of speech processing.


Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). He is the 2011 winner of the ACM Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning".


Jukka Jernvall

Jukka Jernvall (born 1963) is a Finnish evolutionary biologist in the field of evo-devo research. His research has centered on the interplay of ecology, evolution and developmental biology, especially of the mammalian dentition. Jernvall is currently an Academy Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki.


Julia Hirschberg

Julia Hirschberg is an American computer scientist noted for her research on computational linguistics and natural language processing. She is currently the Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and is serving as Chair of the Computer Science Department. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She has served as a member of CRA-W since 2010.


Julie Emerson

Julie Cathryn Emerson (born February 29, 1988) is a small business owner from Carencro, Louisiana, who is the Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 39 in Lafayette and St. Landry parishes in South Louisiana.


Jun'ichi Tsujii

Jun'ichi Tsujii (辻井 潤一 Tsujii Jun'ichi, born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in natural language processing and text mining, particularly in the field of biology and bioinformatics.


Jun S. Liu

Jun S. Liu (Chinese: 刘军; pinyin: Liú Jūn; born 1965) is an award-winning Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference and computational biology. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002. Liu is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and has written many research papers and a book  about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, including their applications in biology. He is also co-author of the Tmod software for motif discovery.


Jure Leskovec

Jure Leskovec is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks.


Kai Puolamäki

Kai Puolamäki is a Finnish physicist and Internet activist. He has been a vocal spokesman of the Finnish anti-copyright movement.


Karl J. Friston

Karl John Friston FRS, FMedSci, FSB, is a British neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging.


Kathleen McKeown

Kathleen McKeown is an American computer scientist, specializing in natural language processing. She is currently the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University. She has held the positions of President, Vice President, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and has been a board member and secretary of the board of the Computing Research Association.


Kevin Leyton-Brown

Kevin Leyton-Brown (born 1975) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2003. He was the recipient of a 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a 2013/14 Killam Teaching Prize, and a 2013 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science. Leyton-Brown co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and Yoav Shoham.


Kevin P. Murphy

Kevin P. Murphy (born 1965) is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a freshman legislator, he regularly worked at his district office's unique drive-through window designed to speed constituent service.


Kieron O'Hara

Kieron O'Hara is a philosopher, computer scientist and political writer. He is an associate professor and principal research fellow within the department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he specialises in the politics, philosophy and epistemology of technology. He is also a research fellow at the Web Science Trust and the conservative think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.


Kiyosi Itô

Kiyosi Itô (伊藤 清 Itō Kiyoshi, September 7, 1915 – 10 November 2008) was a Japanese mathematician. He pioneered the theory of stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations, now known as the Itô calculus. Its basic concept is the Itô integral, and among the most important results is a change of variable formula known as Itô's lemma. Itô calculus is a method used in the mathematical study of random events and is applied in various fields, and is perhaps best known for its use in mathematical finance. Ito also made contributions to the study of diffusion processes on manifolds, known as stochastic differential geometry.


Klara Nahrstedt

Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and directs the Coordinated Science Laboratory there. Her research concerns multimedia, quality of service, and middleware.


Klaus-Robert Müller

Klaus-Robert Müller (born 1964 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German physicist and computer scientist, most noted for his work in Machine Learning and Brain-Computer Interfaces.


Klaus Tochtermann

Klaus Tochtermann (* 22. August 1964 in Heidelberg) is a professor in the Institute for Computer Science at Kiel University and also the director of the ZBW – German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.


Knud Möller

Knud Albert Möller (January 17, 1919, Helsinki – April 24, 1993 Helsinki) was a Finnish YLE radio correspondent until 1983. Möller worked as correspondent in the front during the Continuation War. After the war he was long time correspondent in Copenhagen. Kaj Möller returned to Denmark in 1907 and married Agnes Birn. They moved to Saint Petersburg where he worked as chef in a hotel. During the Russian Revolution in 1917 they moved to Helsinki. Knud was born there in 1919 and lived in his youth in Käkisalmi and Viipuri.


Léon Bottou

Léon Bottou is a researcher best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Yann LeCun and Patrick Haffner), and the maintainer of DjVuLibre, the open source implementation of DjVu. He is the original developer of the Lush programming language.


Lada A. Adamic

Lada Adamic is an American network scientist, who researches information dynamics in networks. She studies how network structure influences the flow of information, how information influences the evolution of networks, and crowdsourced knowledge sharing.


Laurent Itti

Laurent Itti (born December 12, 1970 in Tours, France) is a computational neuroscientist. He received his MS in "Image Processing" from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris in 1994, and a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he has been since 2000.


Lawrence Hunter

Professor Lawrence E. Hunter is Director of the Center for Computational Biology and of the Computational Bioscience Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an internationally known scholar, focused on computational biology, knowledge-driven extraction of information from the primary biomedical literature, the semantic integration of knowledge resources in molecular biology, and the use of knowledge in the analysis of high-throughput data, as well as for his foundational work in computational biology, which led to the genesis of the major professional organization in the field and two international conferences.


Lei Han

Lei Han (Chinese: 雷寒; pinyin: Léi Hán) is a professor of cardiovascular medicine, doctoral supervisor (tutor of Ph.D. or Doctorate student) and the President of Chongqing Medical University. Keshav Bhattarai has published information about *"Prof. Lei Han" in the American Chronicle.


Leonidas J. Guibas

Leonidas John Guibas (Greek: Λεωνίδας Γκίμπας) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories. Guibas was a student of Donald Knuth at Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. in 1976. He has worked for several industrial research laboratories, and joined the Stanford faculty in 1984.


Leslie G. Valiant

Leslie Gabriel Valiant FRS (born 28 March 1949) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist. He is currently the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University.


Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Leslie Pack Kaelbling is an American roboticist, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a graduate of Stanford University (Ph.D., 1990) and a student of Nils J. Nilsson. Her research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning, and sensing with applications to robotics. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. In 2000, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.


Liane Gabora

Liane Gabora is a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan.


Lila R. Gleitman

Lila Gleitman (born December 10, 1929) is a professor emerita of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children's learning of their first language. Gleitman received a B.A. in literature from Antioch College in 1952, an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1962, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. She was employed as an assistant professor at Swarthmore College before accepting a position as the William T.


Linda Avey

Linda Avey (born 1960) is an American biologist and the co-founder of 23andMe and Curious, Inc. Avey earned a BA at Augustana University. She spent 20 years in sales and business development in biopharmaceuticals. Avey helped develop research programs for Affymetrix and Perlegen Sciences. In 2006, she co-founded the world's first personal genetics service 23andMe with Paul Cusenza and Anne Wojcicki. In September 2009, Avey left 23andMe and started Brainstorm Research Foundation, focused on accelerating research in Alzheimer's disease.


Lin Xiao

Lin Xiao (Chinese: 林晓) (born 1920) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Wei County, Handan, Hebei. He was Chairman of the Henan People's Congress (1988-1989, 1992-1993). He was a delegate to the 7th National People's Congress (1988-1993).


Lionel Barnett

Lionel David Barnett CB FBA (21 October 1871 – 28 January 1960) was an English orientalist. The son of a Liverpool banker, Barnett was educated at Liverpool High School, Liverpool Institute, University College, Liverpool and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a first class degree in classics and was three times a winner of a Browne medal. In 1932, Barnett became entirely blind in one eye and retained only partial vision in the other. He was made a Companion of the Bath (CB) in 1937.


Lise Getoor

Lise Getoor is a professor in the Computer Science Department, at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty, applied to graphs and structured data. She also works in data integration, social network analysis and visual analytics. She has multiple best paper awards, an NSF Career Award, and is an Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain.She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings.


Longbing Cao

Longbing Cao (born in 1969) is a Professor in Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney Australia. He is known for his work in data science, behavior analytics, complex intelligent systems, and their enterprise applications.


Louis-Philippe Morency

Louis-Philippe Morency is a French Canadian researcher interested in human communication and machine learning applied to a better understanding of human behavior.


Luay Nakhleh

Luay Nakhleh is a Professor of Computer Science and of BioSciences at Rice University in Houston, Texas.


Luciano da Fontoura Costa

Luciano da Fontoura Costa (born December 1962 in São Carlos, SP, Brazil) is a full professor at the Institute of Physics at São Carlos, University of São Paulo, where he coordinates the Multidisciplinary Computing Group.


Luciano Floridi

Luciano Floridi (/flɔːˈriːdi/; born 16 November 1964) is currently Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Governing Body Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, Senior Member of the Faculty of Philosophy, Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, and Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Floridi is best known for his work on two areas of philosophical research: the philosophy of information and information ethics.


Luc Steels

Luc Steels (born 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist, and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He also founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris (now directed by François Pachet) and was a visiting researcher at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Steels is considered a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence who has made important contributions to expert systems, behaviour-based robotics (a term which he coined), artificial life and evolutionary linguistics.


Luis von Ahn

Luis von Ahn (born 19 August 1978) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.


Lyle H. Ungar

Lyle H. Ungar is a machine learning researcher and professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also affiliated with the psychology department at the university.


Maarten de Rijke

Maarten de Rijke (born 1 August 1961) is a Dutch computer scientist. His work initially focused on modal logic and knowledge representation, but since the early years of the 21st century he has worked mainly in information retrieval. His work is supported by grants from the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), public-private partnerships, and the European Commission (under the Sixth and Seventh Framework programmes).


Manfred K. Warmuth

Manfred Klaus Warmuth is a researcher and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His main research interest is computational learning theory with a special focus on online learning algorithms.


Marcus Hutter

Marcus Hutter (born 14 April 1967) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Australian National University. Hutter was born and educated in Munich, where he studied physics and computer science at the Technical University of Munich. In 2000 he joined Jürgen Schmidhuber's group at the Swiss Artificial Intelligence lab IDSIA, where he developed the first mathematical theory of optimal Universal Artificial Intelligence, based on Kolmogorov complexity and Ray Solomonoff's theory of universal inductive inference. In 2006 he accepted a professorship at the Australian National University in Canberra.


Marc Yor

Marc Yor (24 July 1949 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance. He had an Erdös number of 2.


Marko Tadić

Marko Tadić (born 16 November 1953 in Tomislavgrad) is a Croatian mathematician. Tadić does research in the field of noncommutative harmonic analysis, especially the representation theory of classical groups and classification of unitary representations and its interaction with the modern theory of automorphic forms through Langlands program. He is a fellow of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and a member of Academia Europaea.


Mark Bernstein

Mark Bernstein is a member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents.


Mark Buchanan

Mark Buchanan (born October 31, 1961 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science Nature, and the popular science magazine New Scientist. He has been a guest columnist for the New York Times, and currently writes a monthly column for the journal Nature Physics. He has been awarded, in June 2009, the Lagrange Prize in Turin, regarding science writing in the field of complexity.


Mark Gorenberg

Mark P. Gorenberg is an American venture capitalist, currently managing director of San Francisco-based Zetta Venture Partners. He is an active political fundraiser for Democratic Party candidates. Gorenberg received a B.S. from MIT (1976), an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota (1979), and an M.S. in engineering management from Stanford University (1984). He was a member of the original SPARCstation 1 team at Sun Microsystems.


Mark J. van der Laan

Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.


Mark van de Wiel

Mark van de Wiel is an English clarinettist, principal clarinettist of the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, and an academic teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.


Marta Sanz-Solé

Marta Sanz-Solé (born 19 January 1952 in Sabadell, Barcelona) is a Catalan mathematician specializing in probability theory. She obtained her PhD in 1978 from the University of Barcelona under the supervision of David Nualart.


Martin D. Davis

Martin David Davis (born 1928) is an American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem.


Martin Gruber

Martin Gruber (born November 11, 1975 in Brixen) is an Italian luger who has competed since 1992. A natural track luger, he won the men's singles silver medal at the 1998 FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships in Rautavaara, Finland. Gruber also won a silver medal in the same event at the 1995 FIL European Luge Natural Track Championships in Kandalaksha, Russia.


Martin Kay

Martin Kay is a computer scientist, born in 1935, known especially for his work in computational linguistics. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, he received his M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1961. In 1958 he started to work at the Cambridge Language Research Unit, one of the earliest centres for research in what is now known as Computational Linguistics. In 1961, he moved to the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California, US, where he eventually became head of research in linguistics and machine translation. He left Rand in 1972 to become Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. In 1974, he moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Research Fellow.


Martin L. Kersten

Martin L. Kersten (born October 25, 1953) is a computer scientist with research focus on database architectures, query optimization and their use in scientific databases. He is an architect of the MonetDB system, an open-source column store for data warehouses, online analytical processing (OLAP) and geographic information systems (GIS). He has been (co-) founder of several successful spin-offs of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).


Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java (and Pizza before) both with others, and built the current generation of javac, the Java compiler. In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.


Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli (born on 4 October 1957) is a professor of engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and the current president of the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Succeeding Patrick Aebischer, he will be the president of EPFL from 1 January 2017.


Masanao Aoki

Masanao Aoki (青木 正直 Aoki Masanao, born May 14, 1931) is a Japanese engineer and economist. He is a Professor emeritus of Economics at University of California, Los Angeles. Aoki earned a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD in engineering from UCLA in 1960. He was a professor of engineering at UCLA and California–Berkeley from 1960–1974, before switching fields to economics in which he remained a professor until his retirement in 2002. Aoki's change of research areas is reflected in the two editions of his influential textbook, Optimization of Stochastic Systems. Originally published in 1967 it contained a rigorous treatment of optimal control methods in engineering, whereas the second edition (published in 1989) was amended by numerous applications in economics.


Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist specializing in big data, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He is a co-founder and Chief Technologist of Databricks, and an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. He created the Apache Spark project and co-created the Apache Mesos project during his PhD at UC Berkeley, and also designed the core scheduling algorithms used in Apache Hadoop, including the most widely used fair scheduler.


Matthew O. Jackson

Matthew O. Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and a fellow of CIFAR. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1988. Jackson has been honored with the Social Choice and Welfare Prize, the B.E.Press Arrow Prize for Senior Economists, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has served as co-editor of Games and Economic Behavior, the Review of Economic Design, and Econometrica. Jackson co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, along with Kevin Leyton-Brown and Yoav Shoham.


Matti Pietikäinen

Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen is a computer scientist. He is currently Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests are in texture-based computer vision, face and activity analysis, and vision-based perceptual interfaces. He is Director of the Center for Machine Vision Research, and Scientific Director of Infotech Oulu.


Matt Floyd

Matt Floyd (born 30 November 1980) is a British broadcaster who works for Sky Sports. During his TV career, he has presented coverage of several major sporting events including the 2015 Cricket World Cup and the Indian Premier League. He was the main television presenter of Cricket AM with Sarah-Jane Mee.


Maurice Stevenson Bartlett

Maurice Stevenson Bartlett FRS (18 June 1910 – 8 January 2002) was an English statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.


Mehran Sahami

Mehran Salami is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. He is also the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford.He earned his BS and PhD from Stanford University under the supervision of Daphne Koller. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Sahami was a Senior Research Scientist at Google, Inc. as well as a Senior Engineering Manager at Epiphany, Inc.. Sahami also co-chairs the ACM Education Board and Education Council.


Mehryar Mohri

Mehryar Mohri is a professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University known for his work in machine learning, automata theory and algorithms, speech recognition and natural language processing.


Michael Gruninger

Michael John (Mike) Gruninger (born c. 1966) is a Canadian computer scientist and Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, known for his work on Enterprise modelling, particularly the work on the TOVE Project with Mark S. Fox, and for his work on Ontologies in information science.


Michael I. Jordan

Michael Irwin Jordan is an American scientist, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and leading researcher in machine learning and artificial intelligence.


Michael J. Kearns

Michael Kearns is an American computer scientist, professor and National Center Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, the founding director of Penn's Singh Program in Networked & Social Systems Engineering (NETS), the founding director of Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences , and also holds secondary appointments in Penn's Wharton School and department of Economics. He is a leading researcher in computational learning theory and algorithmic game theory, and interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, computational finance, algorithmic trading, computational social science and social networks.


Michael L. Littman

Michael Lederman Littman (born August 30, 1966) is a computer scientist. He works mainly in reinforcement learning, but has done work in machine learning, game theory, computer networking, partially observable Markov decision process solving, computer solving of analogy problems and other areas. He is currently a professor of computer science at Brown University.


Michael Levin

Michael Levin (/ˈlɛvɪn/; born 21 May 1943) is a philosophy professor at City University of New York. He has published on metaphysics, epistemology, race, homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science. Levin's central research interests are in epistemology (reliabilism and Gettier problems) and in philosophy of race.


Michael P. Wellman

Michael Paul Wellman (born March 27, 1961) is Professor of Computer Science at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Wellman received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for his work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and decision-theoretic planning. From 1988 to 1992, Wellman conducted research in these areas at the USAF's Wright Laboratory. For the past 15+ years, his research has focused on computational market mechanisms for distributed decision making and electronic commerce. As Chief Market Technologist for TradingDynamics, Inc. (now part of Ariba), he designed configurable auction technology for dynamic business-to-business commerce.


Michael R. Lyu

Michael R. Lyu, Ph.D., is a software engineer. He is now a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin, Hong Kong. Michael is well known to the software engineering community as the editor of two classic book volumes in software reliability engineering: Software Fault Tolerance and the Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering. Both books have also been translated into Chinese and published in China.


Michael Stumpf

Michael Stumpf (born 1970) is scholar in the field of systems biology. He has made ample contributions to evolutionary genetics and population genetics.


Michel Klein

Michel Klein (born 1958) is a French fashion designer. In 2005, Itokin was the Michel Klein ready-to-wear license holder in Japan with retail value of €70 million.


Michel Ledoux

Michel Ledoux (born 1958) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is a professor at the University of Toulouse. Ledoux received in 1985 his Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg with thesis Propriétés limites des variables aléatoires vectorielles which was made under the supervision of Xavier Fernique. He has done important research on the isoperimetric inequality in analysis and probability theory.


Mick Watson

Mick Watson (born 1966 in Sydney) is an Australian businessman and the current director of sports at Rangitoto College.


Mihalis Yannakakis

Mihalis Yannakakis (Greek: Μιχάλης Γιαννακάκης; born 13 September 1953 in Athens, Greece) is Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He is noted for his work in computational complexity, databases, and other related fields. He won the Donald E. Knuth Prize in 2005.


Mike Shaver

Mike Shaver (born February 17, 1977 in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada) is an Engineering Director at Facebook. He is also known for his work on several open source projects. He has been involved in the development of many of the technologies that enable interactive web pages, such as the JavaScript language. He served as VP of Engineering and VP of Technical Strategy for the Mozilla Corporation where he helped people understand, build, and benefit from an open Web.


Milan Randić

Milan Randić (born 1930) is a Croatian American scientist who is one of the leading experts in the field of computational chemistry.


Milan Vojnovic

Milan Vojnovic is a researcher with the Systems and Networking group at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in Communication Systems from EPFL, Switzerland, in 2003 under Jean-Yves Le Boudec, and both his Masters and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Split in Croatia in 1998 and 1995, respectively.


Milind Tambe

Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and has received ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. In 2013 he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.


Miron Livny

Miron Livny (Hebrew: מירון לבני) is a senior researcher and professor specializing in distributed computing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Livny has been a professor of computer science at Wisconsin since 1983, where he leads the HTCondor high-throughput computing system project. Miron is also a principal investigator and currently the facility coordinator for the Open Science Grid project, Director of the Center for High Throughput computing, CTO of Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, and Director of Core Computational Technology of the Morgridge Institute for Research.


Moira Burke

Moira Burke is an American computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. She currently works as a data scientist for Facebook.


Moses Charikar

Moses Samson Charikar is an Indian computer scientist who works as a professor at Stanford University. He was previously a professor at Princeton University. The topics of his research include approximation algorithms, streaming algorithms, and metric embeddings. In 2012 he was awarded the Paris Kanellakis Award along with Andrei Broder and Piotr Indyk for their research on locality-sensitive hashing.


Moshe Y. Vardi

Moshe Ya'akov Vardi (Hebrew: משה יעקב ורדי) is an Israeli computer scientist. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, United States. He is the Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering, Distinguished Service Professor, and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology. His interests focus on applications of logic to computer science, including database theory, finite-model theory, knowledge in multi-agent systems, computer-aided verification and reasoning, and teaching logic across the curriculum. He is an expert in model checking, constraint satisfaction and database theory, common knowledge (logic), and theoretical computer science.


Mubarak Shah

Mubarak Shah (Persian:  مبارک شاه ) was head of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266). He was the son of Qara Hülëgü and Ergene Khatun, of the Mongol empire. Upon the death of his father in 1252, Mubarak Shah succeeded him as Chagatai Khan, with his mother acting as regent. In 1260, however, the Great Khan claimant Ariq Böke appointed Chagatai Khan's grandson Alghu, and by the following year Alghu had control over much of the Khanate. When Alghu revolted against Ariq Böke in 1262, Organa supported him. After Alghu died in 1266, Organa enthroned Mubarak Shah as head of the ulus, without the permission of Kublai Khan, who was also proclaimed the Great Khan and defeated Ariq Böke 2 years after. He was the first Chagatiite who had converted to Islam.


Naftali Tishby

Naftali Tishby (Hebrew:  נפתלי תשבי; born 1953) is a professor of computer science in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


Nando de Freitas

Nando de Freitas is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. De Freitas is noted as an authority in the field of machine learning, and in particular in the subfields of neural networks, Bayesian inference and Bayesian optimization, and deep learning.


Natarajan Shankar

Natarajan Shankar is a computer scientist working at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, where he leads the Symbolic Analysis Laboratory.


Nate Woody

Nate Woody is the defensive coordinator for the Appalachian State team. He was previously held the same position at Wofford from 2000 to 2012. He has helped form one of the top defenses in the Sun Belt. In 2015 he was one of 36 nominees for the Broyles Award.


Neil F. Johnson

Neil Fraser Johnson (born 1961, Southend, Essex, UK) is a Professor of physics notable for his work in complexity theory and complex systems, spanning quantum information, econophysics, and condensed matter physics. He is also notable for his book Financial Market Complexity published by Oxford University Press, and for his research in insurgent and Fourth generation warfare. He presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture "Arrows of time" on BBC TV in 1999.


Neil Spencer

Neil Spencer is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and astrologer who lives in London. He edited the New Musical Express from 1988 to 1985 and now writes regularly for The Observer.


Nello Cristianini

Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.


Nick Montfort

Nick Montfort is an associate professor of digital media at MIT in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is also a poet, computer scientist, and author of interactive fiction. Montfort has collaborated on the blog Grand Text Auto, the sticker novel Implementation, and the contemporary fiction novel 2002: A Palindrome Story. He writes poems, text generators, and interactive fiction such as Book and Volume and Ad Verbum. Most recently, he and Ian Bogost wrote Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (MIT Press, 2009). Montfort also wrote Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Interactive Fiction (MIT Press, 2003) and co-edited The Electronic Literature Collection: Volume 1 (ELO, 2006) and The New Media Reader (MIT Press, 2003).


Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Italian pronunciation: [nikɔˈlɔ]; born 18.6.1963. Milan, Italy) is a computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the "Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione" of the University of Milan. He is a researcher in the field of Machine Learning, and the co-author of the book "Prediction, learning, and games" with Gabor Lugosi.


Nicolas Moreau

Nicolas Moreau (born June 28, 1969) is a French actor and a theatre director.


Nigel Shadbolt

Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt FREng CEng CITP FBCS CPsychol (born 9 April 1956) is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is also a Visiting Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. He has studied and researched Psychology, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Science and the emerging field of Web science. He has made significant contributions to all of these disciplines.


Nikos Paragios

Nikos Paragios (Greek: Νικος Παραγιος, born at 1972) is a professor of Computer Science and Applied mathematics at Ecole Centrale Paris, senior fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France and affiliated scientific leader at Inria while serving as the editor in chief of the Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal of Elsevier Publishing House.He holds a D.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering (2000) from Inria and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, and has held permanent positions at Siemens Corporate Technology, École des ponts ParisTech as well as visiting positions at Rutgers University, Yale University and University of Houston.


Nir Friedman

Nir Friedman (born 1967) is an Israeli Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research combines Machine Learning and Statistical Learning with Systems Biology, specifically in the fields of Gene Regulation, Transcription and Chromatin.


Noshir S. Contractor

Contractor completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1987. Prior to this he received a Master of Arts in Communication also from USC in 1986 and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1983.


Nuria Oliver

Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist. She is Scientific Director at Telefónica. She holds a Ph.D. from the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is one of the most cited female computer scientist in Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 10200 publications.


Ora Lassila

Ora Lassila is a Finnish computer scientist who lives and works as a Technology Architect at Pegasystems, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.. He has been conducting research into the Semantic Web since 1996, and was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and James Hendler, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area. His early work in this area included proposing the original RDF Specification with Ralph R. Swick and he has been an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board since 1998. He also belongs to the steering committee of the Semantic Web Science Association.


Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni is an American entrepreneur and professor of Computer Science and CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1991, where he became the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In May 2005, he founded and became the director of the University's Turing Center. The Center investigates problems in data mining, natural language processing, the Semantic Web and other web search topics. He coined the term machine reading and he created the first commercial comparison shopping agent.


Owen L. Astrachan

Owen Astrachan is Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University, where he is also the department's director of undergraduate studies. He earned an AB degree in Mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 (with distinction, Summa Cum-Laude, and Phi Beta Kappa), an MAT in teaching mathematics from Duke in 1979 and MS and Ph.D degrees in computer science from Duke in 1989 and 1992.


Partha Niyogi

Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. He is known for his work in artificial intelligence, especially in the field of manifold learning and evolutionary linguistics. He wrote more than 90 academic publications and two books.


Patricia Flatley Brennan

Patricia Flatley Brennan is the director of the National Library of Medicine. Prior to that, she was the Lillian L. Moehlman Bascom Professor, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Brennan received a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She served as chair of University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering's Department of Industrial Engineering from 2007 to 2010.


Patrick J. Hayes

Patrick John Hayes FAAAI (born 21 August 1944) is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. As of March 2006, he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida.


Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore CBE FRS FRAS (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominent status in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.


Paul Heinrich von Groth

Paul Heinrich Ritter von Groth (23 June 1843 – 2 December 1927) was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures.


Paul McFedries

Paul McFedries (born 23 August 1959) is a Canadian author of more than 40 computer books that have sold 3 million copies worldwide. He has been programming since he was a teenager in the mid-1970s, and is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. McFedries also runs and owns Wordspy.com, a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language.


Pavel A. Pevzner

Pavel A. Pevzner (Russian: Павел Аркадьевич Певзнер) is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. He serves on the Editorial Board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.


Pedro M. Domingos

Pedro Domingos is Professor at University of Washington. He is a researcher in machine learning and known for markov logic network enabling uncertain inference.


Pedro Pedrosa Mendes

Mendes did his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Lisbon. He then moved to the UK and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Aberystwyth University in 1994 for work on computer simulation of metabolic pathways.


Persi Diaconis

Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards.


Peter A. Flach

Pieter Adriaan Flach (born April 8, 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.


Peter Auer

Peter Auer (born 1954) is a professor of linguistics at the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. Auer graduated from the University of Constance in 1983. He worked at the University of Hamburg before going to Freiburg. Auer has authored several monographs and edited numerous collections of scholarly research, including work on code-switching, contextualization, multilingualism, dialectology, and other areas of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. He served as the German science foundation's referee for general linguistics from 2000 to 2008.


Peter Brusilovsky

Peter Brusilovsky is a professor of Information scienceand Intelligent Systems (Artificial intelligence) at the University of Pittsburgh. He is known as one of the pioneers of Adaptive hypermedia., Adaptive Web,and Web-based Adaptive learningHe also published numerous articles in user modeling, personalization, educational technology, intelligent tutoring systems, and information access. Brusilovsky is ranked as #1 in the world in the area of Computer Education and #21 in the world in the area of World Wide Web by Microsoft Academic Search. According to Google Scholar, he has over 20,000 citations and h-index of 61. Brusilovsky's group has been awarded best paper awards at Adaptive Hypermedia, User Modeling, Hypertext, ICALT, and EC-TEL conference series.


Peter Chin

(For the Malaysian politician, see Peter Chin Fah Kui.) Peter Wing Ho Chin (Chinese: 陳荣和; pinyin: Chén Rónghé; Jyutping: Can4 Wing4wo4) CNZM (born 1941) is a lawyer and was the 56th Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand. He served two terms as Mayor from 2004 to 2010. Chin is a descendant of the earliest Chinese immigrants to New Zealand, and his family owned a take-away establishment in Stuart Street.


Peter Culicover

Peter W. Culicover is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. He works in the areas of syntactic theory (particularly on the syntax of English), language learnability and computational modelling of language acquisition and language change. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked under his advisor, Noam Chomsky.


Peter Dayan

Peter Dayan is the director of the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London. He is co-author of "Theoretical Neuroscience", a leading textbook in computational and mathematical modeling of brain function (see Computational Neuroscience). He is known for applying Bayesian methods from Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to understand neural function, and is particularly renowned for having related neurotransmitter levels to prediction errors and Bayesian uncertainties. He co-authored "Q-learning" with Chris Watkins, and provided a proof of convergence of TD(λ) for arbitrary λ (see temporal difference learning). His h-index according to Google Scholar is 76.


Peter Fader

Peter Fader is the Frances and Pei-Yuan Chia Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the academic Co-Director of the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative, an academic research center focused on the development and application of customer analytic methods. Fader's research is based on the analysis of behavioral data to understand and forecast customer shopping and purchasing activities. He works with firms from a wide range of industries, such as consumer packaged goods, interactive media, financial services, and pharmaceuticals.


Peter Grindrod

Peter Grindrod is a British mathematician. He was appointed a CBE in 2005 for services to mathematics R&D. He is a former member of the EPSRC Council (2000–04) and chair of the EPSRC's User Panel. He is a former president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the UK's professional and learned society for mathematicians (2006–08). He is also former member of BBSRC Council (2009–13). He is an independent member of the MOD DSAC (2008– ). He is a Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford (2013– ).


Peter Ingwersen

Peter Ingwersen (born 10 October 1962 in Copenhagen) is a Danish fashion designer.


Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist. He is a Director of Research at Google Inc., and used to be its Director of Search Quality.


Peter Schmitz

Peter Schmitz (born 14 December 1954 in Dortmund) is a retired United Nations official, former Director of the Europe and Latin America Division, Office of Operations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Schmitz holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. He joined the United Nations Secretariat in August 1984, and first worked in various functions in Protocol and the Department of General Assembly Affairs. Peter Schmitz is married and has two children. He is a lifelong supporter of Borussia Dortmund.


Philippe Bourgois

Philippe Bourgois (born 1956) is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1998-2003) and was the Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2007-2016).


Philipp Koehn

Philipp Koehn (born August 1, 1971 in Erlangen, West Germany) is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of machine translation. His primary research interest is statistical machine translation and he is one of the inventors of a method called phrase based machine translation which is a sub-field of statistical translation methods that employs sequences of words (or so-called "phrases") as the basis of translation, expanding the previous word based approaches.  A 2003 paper which he authored with Franz Josef Och and Daniel Marcu called Statistical phrase-based translation has attracted wide attention in Machine translation community and has been cited over a thousand times. Phrase based methods are widely used in machine translation applications in industry.


Philip Dawid

Alexander Philip Dawid (born 1 February 1946) is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. He is a leading proponent of Bayesian statistics. He was educated at the City of London School, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Darwin College, Cambridge. His book Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems (1999, Springer-Verlag), written jointly with Robert G. Cowell, Steffen Lauritzen, and David J. Spiegelhalter, received the 2001 DeGroot Prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.


Philip Hans Franses

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Philip S. Yu

Philip S. Yu (born ca 1952) is an American computer scientist and Professor in Information Technology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, known for his work in the field of data mining.


Phillip Good

Phillip I. Good (born in 1937) is a Canadian-American mathematical statistician. He was educated at McGill University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was among the first to apply the bootstrap in his 1975 analyses of 2×2 designs with a missing cell. His chief contributions to statistics are in the area of small sample statistics, including a uniformly most powerful unbiased (UMPU) permutation test for Type I censored data, an exact test for comparing variances, and an exact test for cross-over designs.


Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

Dr. Pierre-Yves Oudeyer is Research Director at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inria) and head of the Inria and Ensta-ParisTech FLOWERS team. Before, he has been a permanent researcher in Sony Computer Science Laboratory for 8 years (1999-2007). He studied theoretical computer science at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, and received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University Paris VI, France. After working on computational models of language evolution, he is now working on developmental and social robotics, focusing on sensorimotor development, language acquisition and lifelong learning in robots.


Pierre Baldi

Pierre Baldi is a chancellor's professor of computer science at University of California, Irvine and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.


Pietro Perona

Pietro Perona is Allan E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for research on computer vision.


Ping Li

Ping Li (Chinese: 李平; pinyin: Lǐ Píng) is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in language acquisition, focusing on bilingual language processing in East Asian languages and connectionist modeling. Li received a B.A. in Chinese linguistics from Peking University in 1983, an M.A. in theoretical linguistics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics from Leiden University and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1990, and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego and the McDonnell-Pew Center for Research in Cognitive Neuroscience in 1992.


Prabhakar Raghavan

Raghavan holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.


Qin Zhang

Zhang Qin (born February 27, 1974) is a Chinese sprint canoer. Competing in the mid-1990s, she won a silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg. Zhang also finished fourth in the K-4 500 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.


Rachel Glennerster

Rachel Glennerster (born October 21, 1965) is the current Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Lead Academic for Sierra Leone at the International Growth Centre, a research centre is based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford. Her current research includes randomized evaluations of community driven development in Sierra Leone, empowerment of adolescent girls in Bangladesh, and health, education, and microfinance in India.


Raghu Ramakrishnan

Raghu Ramakrishnan is a researcher in the areas of database and information management. He is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. He has been a Vice President and Research Fellow for Yahoo! Inc., and a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. With Johannes Gehrke, he authored the popular textbook Database Management Systems, also known as the "Cow Book".


Rajesh P. N. Rao

Rajesh P.N. Rao (born July 2, 1970 in Madras, India) is the Director of the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE) and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. With Prof. Adrienne Fairhall, Rao offered the first massive open online course in computational neuroscience in 2013. Rao graduated summa cum laude from Angelo State University in 1992 with a B.S. in Computer Science and in Mathematics. He then attended the University of Rochester where he earned his M.S. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) in Computer Science.


Ramakrishnan Srikant

Ramakrishnan Srikant is a Google Fellow at Google. His primary field of research is Data Mining. His 1994 paper, Fast algorithms for mining association rules, co-authored with Rakesh Agrawal has acquired over 16000 citations as per Google Scholar as of July 2014, and is thus one of the most cited papers in the area of Data Mining. It won the VLDB 10-year award in 2004. His 1995 paper, Mining Sequential Patterns, also co-authored with Rakesh Agrawal, was awarded the ICDE Influential Paper Award in 2008, and his 2004 paper, Order-Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data, co-authored with Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan and Yirong Xu, won the 2014 SIGMOD Test of Time Award.


Ramanathan V. Guha

Ramanathan V. Guha (born 1965) is the creator of widely used web standards such as RSS,  RDF and Schema.org. He is also responsible for products such as Google Custom Search. He was a co-founder of Epinions and Alpiri. Until recently, he was a Google Fellow and a vice president in research at Google.


Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Chandra Jain (mr:रमेश चंद्र जैन)(hi:रमेश चंद्र जैन) (born June 8, 1949) is a scientist and entrepreneur in the field of information and computer science. He is a Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.


Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group. He holds over seventy-five patents. He received the $500K Lemelson–MIT Prize in 2016. The prize money will be used for launching REDX.io, a group platform for co-innovation. Prof. Ramesh Raskar recently held a Reddit AMA (Ask me Anything).


Ravindran Kannan

For the Hindu deity refer to Kannan Ravindran Kannan (Tamil: ரவீந்திரன் கண்ணன்; born 12 March 1953, Madras) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of Computer Science and Automation Department of Indian Institute of Science.


Rayid Ghani

Rayid Ghani is the Director of the Center for Data Science and Public Policy, Chief Data Scientist at the Urban Center on Computation and Data, Research Director at the Computation Institute (a joint institute of Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago), and a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He is also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign, focused on social media products for non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities.


Raymond Kurzweil

Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (/ˈkɜːrzwaɪl/ KURZ-wyl; born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist. Aside from futurism, he is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is a public advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements, and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.


Renata Salecl

Renata Salecl (born 1962) is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a visiting professor at London School of Economics, lecturing on the topic of emotions and law. Every year she lectures at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York), on Psychoanalysis and Law, and she has also been teaching courses on neuroscience and law. From 2012, furthermore, she is visiting professor at the Department of Social Science, Heath and Medicine at King's College London. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages.


Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean computer scientist and currently CTO in NTENT, a semantic search company in South California. Until February of 2016 he was VP of Research for Yahoo! Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe and Latin America. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.


Richard I. Hartley

Richard Hartley is an Australian computer scientist and a professor at the Australian National University, where he is head of the Computer Vision group in the Research School of Engineering.


Richard Lambert

Sir Richard Peter Lambert (born 23 September 1944) is the former Director-General of the CBI, and the present Chancellor of the University of Warwick.


Richard S. Sutton

Richard S. Sutton is an American computer scientist. Currently he is professor of Computer Science and iCORE chair at the University of Alberta. Dr. Sutton is considered one of the founding fathers of modern computational reinforcement learning, having several significant contributions to the field, including temporal difference learning, policy gradient methods, the Dyna architecture.


Roberto Pieraccini

Roberto Pieraccini  (born 15 November 1955 in Genoa, Italy) is an Italian and US electrical engineer working in the field of speech recognition, natural language understanding, and spoken dialog systems. He is currently the Director of Advanced Conversational Technologies at Jibo, Inc. He has been an active contributor to speech research and technology since 1981. He obtained a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pisa in 1980 with a thesis on the equalization of data channels. After his graduation, between 1981 and 1989 he worked at CSELT (Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni), the then Italian telephone company's research center, at Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) between 1990 and 1995, and AT&T Labs (Florham Park, NJ) between 1995 and 1999.


Robert Cailliau

Robert Cailliau (born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist. Cailliau helped Tim Berners-Lee develop the World Wide Web and organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994.


Robert D. Kleinberg

Robert David Kleinberg is an American theoretical computer scientist and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.


Robert E. Schapire

Robert Elias Schapire was the David M. Siegel '83 Professor in the computer science department at Princeton University and recently moved to Microsoft Research. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning. His work led to the development of the boosting ensemble algorithm used in machine learning. Together with Yoav Freund, he invented the AdaBoost algorithm in 1996. He received the Gödel prize in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Yoav Freund.


Robert Fulton

Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont. That steamboat went with passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles, in 62 hours in 1807. In 1800, he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the "Nautilus", which was the first practical submarine in history. He is also credited with inventing some of the world's earliest naval torpedoes for use by the British Royal Navy.


Robert G. Gallager

Robert Gray Gallager (born May 29, 1931) is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1968, a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1979, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1992, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 1999. He received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1983. He also received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1990 "For fundamental contributions to communications coding techniques", the Marconi Prize in 2003, and aDijkstra Prize in 2004, among other honors. For most of his career he was a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Robert Ghrist

Robert W. Ghrist (born 1969) is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics. Ghrist received in 1991 his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo and in 1994 his master's degree and in 1995 his PhD from Cornell University under Philip Holmes with thesis The link of periodic orbits of a flow. From 1996 to 1998 he was R. H. Bing Instructor at the University of Texas and from 1998 an assistant professor and then from 2002 an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2002 he became an associate professor and in 2004 a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Robert J. Vanderbei

Robert J. Vanderbei (born 1955) is an American mathematician and Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.


Robert L. Devaney

Robert Luke Devaney (born 1948) is an American mathematician, the Feld Family Professor of Teaching Excellence at Boston University. His research involves dynamical systems and fractals.


Robert Sedgewick

Robert Sedgewick (born December 20, 1946) is a computer science professor at Princeton University and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems. Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was about the quicksort algorithm. In 1975–85 he served on the faculty of Brown University. In 1997 Robert Sedgewick was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his seminal work in the mathematical analysis of algorithms and pioneering research in algorithm animation.


Robert Seidel

Robert Seidel (March 12, 1918 – July 1982) was a Swiss boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was eliminated in the second round of the lightweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming gold medalist Imre Harangi.


Robert Tibshirani

Robert Tibshirani FRSC (born July 10, 1956) is a Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. He was a Professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and proteomics.


Rodney A. Brooks

Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a founder and former Chief Technical Officer of iRobot and co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics). Outside the scientific community Brooks is also known for his appearance in a film featuring him and his work, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control.


Roger Penrose

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Penrose is known for his work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.


Roland Kuhn

Roland Kuhn (4 March 1912 – 10 October 2005) was a Swiss psychiatrist who discovered that the drug imipramine had antidepressant properties. He was born in Biel and died in Scherzingen.


Roland Schwarz

Roland Schwarz (born 8 April 1937) was a German sailor who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.


Roman Jerala

Roman Jerala (born 1962) is Slovenian biochemist and synthetic biologist, internationally best known as the leader of Slovenian teams that won the Grand prize at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition several times.


Rommie Amaro

Rommie E. Amaro is an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry and the director of the National Biomedical Computation Resource at the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on development of computational methods in biophysics for applications to drug discovery.


Ronald Coifman

Ronald Raphael Coifman is the Phillips Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. Coifman earned a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1965, supervised by Jovan Karamata. Coifman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of the 1996 DARPA Sustained Excellence Award, the 1996 Connecticut Science Medal, the 1999 Pioneer Award of the International Society for Industrial and Applied Science, and the 1999 National Medal of Science.


Ronald Getoor

Ronald Kay Getoor (9 February 1929, Royal Oak, Michigan) is an American mathematician. Getoor received from the University of Michigan bachelor's degree in 1950, master's degree in 1951, and Ph.D. in 1954 under Arthur Herbert Copeland with thesis Connections between operators in Hilbert space and random functions of second order. As a postdoc he was an instructor at Princeton University. He became in 1956 an assistant professor and then full professor at the University of Washington. During the academic year 1964–1965 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University. From 1966 until his retirement in 2000 he was a professor at the University of California, San Diego.


Ronald J. Brachman

Brachman earned his B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.


Ross D. King

King completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology at the University of Aberdeen in 1983 and went on to study for a Master of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Newcastle in 1985. Following this, he completed a PhD at The Turing Institute at the University of Strathclyde in 1989 for work on developing machine learning methods for protein structure prediction.


Rudi Studer

Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor at KIT, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He is a former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, an STI International Fellow, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Web Semantics, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the "Semantic Wikipedia" proposal.


Ruedi Aebersold

Rudolf Aebersold (better known as Ruedi Aebersold born September 12, 1954 ) is a Swiss biologist, regarded as a pioneer in the fields of proteomics and systems biology. He has primarily researched techniques for measuring proteins in complex samples, in many cases via mass spectrometry. He is probably best known as one of the inventors of the Isotope-Coded Affinity Tag (ICAT) technique for proteomics, a technique for measuring the relative quantities of proteins in one sample relative to another sample by using tags containing stable isotopes of different masses.


Russell A. Poldrack

Russell Alan (Russ) Poldrack (born 1967) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of Psychology at Stanford University, member of the Stanford Neuroscience Institute. and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience.


Ruzena Bajcsy

Ruzena Bajcsy (born 1933 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is an American computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also Director Emerita of CITRIS (the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society).


S. Barry Cooper

S. Barry Cooper (9 October 1943 – 26 October 2015) was a British mathematician and computability theorist. He was a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Leeds.


Samson Abramsky

Samson Abramsky FRS (born 12 March 1953), FRSE is a computer scientist who holds the Christopher Strachey Professorship at the Department of Computer Science (formerly the Computing Laboratory), University of Oxford. He has made contributions to the areas of domain theory, the lazy lambda calculus, strictness analysis, concurrency theory, interaction categories, geometry of interaction, game semantics and quantum computer science.


Samuel Karlin

Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 – December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.


Sam Green

Sam Green is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” in which he narrates a film in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack. His 2012 project The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller featured a live score by the band Yo La Tengo. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, broadcast nationally on PBS, and included in the Whitney Biennial.


Sanjeev Arora

Sanjeev Arora (born January 1968) is an Indian American theoretical computer scientist who is best known for his work on probabilistically checkable proofs and, in particular, the PCP theorem. He is currently the Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and his research interests include computational complexity theory, uses of randomness in computation, probabilistically checkable proofs, computing approximate solutions to NP-hard problems, and geometric embeddings of metric spaces.


Santanu Das

Dr Santanu Das is an Indian academic and author, best known for his work on the literature of the First World War. Das was educated at the University of Calcutta and the University of Cambridge. He is a lecturer at King's College London, having previously been a member of the academic staff of Queen Mary University of London and St John's College, Cambridge.


Santosh Vempala

Santosh Vempala (born 18 October 1971) is a prominent computer scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.


Sarah A. Teichmann

Teichmann was educated at the European School, Karlsruhe in Germany from 1981 to 1993 where she completed the European Baccalaureate in 1993. Teichmann went on to study Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) at Trinity College, Cambridge and was awarded a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996. In 1999, she completed her PhD supervised by Cyrus Chothia at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on genome evolution.


Sara A. van de Geer

Sara Anna van de Geer (born 7 May 1958, Leiden) is a Dutch statistician who works as a professor in the department of mathematics at ETH Zurich. She is president of the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability for the term 2015–2017. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and of the International Statistical Institute, a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.


Scott Aaronson

Scott Joel Aaronson (born May 21, 1981) is a theoretical computer scientist.His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory more generally.


Scott Wildman

Scott Wildman (born April 12, 1951 in San Diego, California) is an American teacher, labor organizer and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party.


Sebastian Schaffert

Sebastian Schaffert is a software engineer and researcher. He was born in Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany on March 18, 1976 and obtained his doctorate in 2004. Before moving out of research, he was very active in the Semantic Web, Linked Data and Multimedia Semantics fields, his works received more than 1.800 citations. He is a contributor to open source projects, among those Apache Marmotta and participated in several European FP6 and FP7 research projects such as REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with rules and semantics), KiWi (Knowledge in a Wiki), IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack) and MICO (Media in Context).


Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.


Sendhil Mullainathan

Sendhil Mullainathan (செந்தில் முல்லைநாதன்) () (born c. 1973) is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (with Eldar Shafir). He was hired with tenure by Harvard in 2004 after having spent six years at MIT. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He is co-founder of Ideas 42, a non-profit organization that uses behavioral science to help solve social problems, and J-PAL, the MIT Poverty Action Lab. He has made extensive academic contributions through the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also worked in government at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).


Serge Lang

Serge Lang (French: [lɑ̃ɡ]; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005) was a French-born American mathematician and activist. He is known for his work in number theory and for his mathematics textbooks, including the influential Algebra. He was a member of the Bourbaki group. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale University.


Sergio Albeverio

Sergio Albeverio (born 17 January 1939) is a Swiss mathematician working in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics. He studied at the ETH Zurich where he also did his PhD in 1967 under the direction of Res Jost (and Markus Fierz). Since 1997 he is professor at the University of Bonn. 1992 he received the Max-Planck-Award in mathematics.


Sergio Verdú

Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.


Shane Frederick

Shane Frederick (born 1968) is a tenured professor at Yale University's School of Management. He earlier worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the creator of the "Cognitive Reflection Test", or CRT, a form of intelligence test that tests how "rational" testees are. People who score high are less vulnerable to various biases in thinking including prospect theory and irrational intertemporal choices.


Shimon Ullman

Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948 in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. Specifically, he focuses on object and facial recognition, and has made a number of key insights in this field, including with Christof Koch the idea of a visualsaliency map in the mammalian visual system to regulate selective spatial attention.


Simon Colton

Simon Colton (London, 1973) is a British computer scientist, currently working in the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths College in the University of London, where he is Professor of Computational Creativity. He previously led a research group of the same name at Imperial College, London in the position of Reader. He graduated from the University of Durham with a degree in Mathematics, gained a MSc. in Pure Mathematics at the University of Liverpool, and finally a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Alan Bundy.


Soumen Chakrabarti

Soumen Chakrabarti is an Indian computer scientist and professor at IIT Bombay.He is known for his work on \\n*  The CLEVER Web page ranking system based on hyperlinks, related to PageRank. \\n*  Focused crawlers, which are Web crawlers guided by page topic classifiers. \\n*  Keyword search on graph databases, later popularized by Facebook graph search. \\n*  Named entity disambiguation in Web text. He is author of an early book on Web search and mining. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014.


Srini Kumar

Srini Kumar (srini), is the founder of the Unamerican.com website in 1994, which sells stickers and other paraphernalia showcasing counterculture. Srini has written the book StickerNation, a book of 432 stickers published by Disinformation. He is also bassist and frontman for the San Francisco surf-rock band the Aquamen. He also founded the Webzine online magazine conference series in 1998. He is also the creator of Tinyvox application.Tinyvox turns Facebook, Twitter, email and message boards into a huge voicemail system.


Stéphane Mallat

Stéphane G. Mallat (born in Paris, France) made some fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has also done work in applied mathematics, signal processing, music synthesis and image segmentation. He introduced the scattering transform that constructs invariance for object recognition purposes.Mallat is the author of A Wavelet Tour of Signal Processing (ISBN 012466606X), a common text in some applied mathematics and engineering courses.


Stanley Wasserman

Stanley Wasserman (born August 29, 1951) is an American statistician and Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington, known for his work on social network analysis, mathematical sociology, network science and multidimensional network.


Stefano Ceri

Stefano Ceri (born 14 February 1955) is an Italian computer engineer and professor of database management at Politecnico di Milano. He has been visiting professor at Stanford University between 1983 and 1990, and received the ACM SIGMOD Edward Codd Innovations Award in 2013.


Stephen Muggleton

Stephen H. Muggleton FBCS, FIET, FAAAI,FECCAI, FSB, FREng (born 6 December 1959, son of Louis Muggleton) is Professor of Machine Learning and Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London.


Stephen P. Boyd

Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor and control theorist. He is currently the Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.


Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. His research concerns topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1960–1961 and 1964–1995).


Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959) is a British scientist known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. He is the author of the book A New Kind of Science. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.


Steven Salzberg

Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology.


Steven Skiena

Steven Sol Skiena (born January 30, 1961) is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.He is a co-founder and the Chief Science Officer of General Sentiment, a social media and news analytics company.His research interests include algorithm design and its applications to biology. Skiena is the author of several popular books in the fields of algorithms, programming, and mathematics.The Algorithm Design Manual is widely used as an undergraduate text in algorithms and within the tech industry for job interview preparation.


Steve B. Furber

Stephen Byram "Steve" Furber CBE, FRS, FREng (born 21 March 1953) is the ICL Professor of Computer Engineering at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and is probably best known for his work at Acorn Computers, where he was one of the designers of the BBC Micro and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor.


Steve Blank

Steve Blank (born 1953) is a Silicon Valley serial-entrepreneur and academician who is based in Pescadero, California. Blank is recognized for developing the Customer Development methodology, which launched the Lean Startup movement. Blank is also the co-founder of E.piphany. Blank has spent over thirty years within the high technology industry. He has founded or worked within eight startup companies, four of which have gone public.


Steve Whittaker

Steve Whittaker is a Professor in Human-Computer Interaction. He was born in Liverpool. He works at the intersection of Computer Science and Psychology. He currently works at University of California at Santa Cruz. He was previously a Professor in information retrieval at the Information Studies department at the University of Sheffield. He earned an MA at the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. at the University of St Andrews. He has also been a Research Scientist at HP Labs, Lotus, AT&T Labs and IBM. He was elected to Fellow of ACM (2014) for contributions to human-computer interaction.


Stuart Kauffman

Stuart Alan Kauffman (born September 28, 1939) is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. In 1967 and 1969 Kauffman proposed applying models of random boolean networks to simplified genetic circuits. These were very early models of large genetic regulatory networks, proposing that cell types are dynamical attractors of such networks and that cell differentiation steps are transitions between attractors. Recent evidence strongly suggests that cell types in humans and other organisms are indeed attractors. In 1971 he suggested that the zygote may not access all the cell type attractors in the repertoire of the genetic network's dynamics, hence some of the unused cell types might be cancers.


Surajit Chaudhuri

Surajit Chaudhuri is a computer scientist best known for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow. He received his B.Tech. from Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1991.From 1992-1995, he has worked at HP Labs, Palo Alto.


Susanne Boll

Susanne Boll-Westermann is a Professor for Multimedia and Internet in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She is the vice dean for computer science in the school of computing science, business administration, economics, and law. Her main research interests are semantic information retrieval, intelligent user-interfaces and mobile systems. Susanne Boll received her PhD in 2001 from the Vienna University of Technology with distinction. She graduated in Computer Science (Diploma with distinction) from the Technical University of Darmstadt. She contributed to about 200 scientific papers and organized a number of conferences and workshops. Susanne Boll is an active member of SIGMM of the ACM and is a member of the board at the research institute OFFIS.


Susan H. Rodger

Susan H. Rodger is an American Computer Scientist known for work in computer science education including developing the software JFLAPfor over twenty years. JFLAP is educational software for visualizing and interacting with formal languages and automata. Rodger is also known for peer-led team learning in computer scienceand integrating computing into middle schools and high schools with Alice.She is also currently serving on the board of CRA-W and as chair of ACM SIGCSE.


Susan T. Dumais

Susan Dumais is an American computer scientist who is a leader in the field of information retrieval, and has been a significant contributor to Microsoft's search technologies.According to Mary Jane Irwin, who heads the Athena Lecture awards committee, “Her sustained contributions have shaped the thinking and direction of human-computer interaction and information retrieval."


Sylvia Young

Sylvia Young OBE (born Sylvia Bakal 18 September 1939 in Whitechapel, London) is the founder and principal of Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, England.


Terrence J. Sejnowski

Terrence (Terry) Joseph Sejnowski (born 13 August 1947) is an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and is the Francis Crick Professor at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. In 2004 he was named the Francis Crick Professor and the Director of the Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology at the Salk Institute. His research in neural networks and computational neuroscience has been pioneering.


Terri K. Attwood

Attwood gained her Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982. She was awarded a PhD, also in Biophysics, two years later, in 1984 under the supervision of John E. Lydon studying chromonic mesophases. Attwood undertook postdoctoral research at Leeds until 1993, when she moved to University College London for five years before moving to the University of Manchester in 1999.


Tetsuo Asano

Tetsuo Asano (浅野哲夫 (Asano Tetsuo), born 1949 in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese computer scientist, the president of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interest is in computational geometry.


Thomas A. Henzinger

Thomas Henzinger (born 1962) is an Austrian computer scientist and researcher.


Thomas Erl

Thomas Erl (born 1967) is a Canadian author, and public speaker known for major contributions to the field of service-oriented architecture. Author of eight books on Service Orientation, Erl defined eight widely accepted principles of service orientation.


Thomas R. Gruber

Thomas Robert "Tom" Gruber (born 1959) is an American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur with a focus on systems for knowledge sharing and collective intelligence. He did foundational work in ontology engineering and is well known for his definition of ontologies in the context of artificial intelligence. In 2007 Gruber co-founded Siri Inc., which created the Siri intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator. Siri Inc. was acquired by Apple in 2010, and Siri is now an integral part of iOS.


Timo Honkela

Timo Honkela, PhD (born August 4, 1962), is Chief Research Scientist at the Department of Information and Computer Science at Aalto University School of Science. He is the head of the Computational Cognitive Systems research group of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre.


Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.


Tim Guleri

Tim Guleri is an American venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur. He is the managing director of Sierra Ventures of San Mateo, California. Prior to joining Sierra Ventures, Guleri helped build Scopus Technology and founded Octane Software.


Tim McKay

Timothy J. McKay (1947 – July 30, 2006) was an environmentalist and executive director of the non-profit Northcoast Environmental Center in Arcata, California. McKay attended Humboldt State University. He worked on projects for the protection of northern spotted owl, preservation of the Siskiyou Wilderness and investigating the death of salmon in the Klamath River.