The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 35th most number of Computer Scientists behind Guatemala, and Syria.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Australian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Rodney Brooks (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 48.43, Rodney Brooks is the most famous Australian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
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) and is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of Robust.AI (founded in 2019).
2. Andrew Tridgell (b. 1967)
With an HPI of 40.60, Andrew Tridgell is the 2nd most famous Australian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born 28 February 1967) is an Australian computer programmer. He is the author of and a contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. He has analysed complex proprietary protocols and algorithms, to allow compatible free and open source software implementations.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Australian computer scientists born between 1954 and 1967. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian computer scientists include Rodney Brooks, and Andrew Tridgell. As of April 2024, 1 new Australian computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Andrew Tridgell.
