COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Israel

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Israeli Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Israeli Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Amir Pnueli (1941 - 2009)

With an HPI of 51.94, Amir Pnueli is the most famous Israeli Computer Scientist.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.

Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.

2. Judea Pearl (1936 - )

With an HPI of 50.51, Judea Pearl is the 2nd most famous Israeli Computer Scientist.  His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

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). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the 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". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public. Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his American and Jewish heritage.

3. Adi Shamir (1952 - )

With an HPI of 49.33, Adi Shamir is the 3rd most famous Israeli Computer Scientist.  His biography has been translated into 32 different languages.

Adi Shamir (Hebrew: עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer and inventor. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme (along with Uriel Feige and Amos Fiat), one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science.

4. Daphne Koller (1968 - )

With an HPI of 36.11, Daphne Koller is the 4th most famous Israeli Computer Scientist.  Her biography has been translated into 28 different languages.

Daphne Koller (Hebrew: דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.