The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Italy
This page contains a list of the greatest Italian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 2 of which were born in Italy. This makes Italy the birth place of the 16th most number of Computer Scientists behind Sweden, and Ukraine.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Italian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Italian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Robert Fano (1917 - 2016)
With an HPI of 48.35, Robert Fano is the most famous Italian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the early years of Information Theory.
2. Silvio Micali (b. 1954)
With an HPI of 46.30, Silvio Micali is the 2nd most famous Italian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian computer scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founder of Algorand, a proof-of-stake blockchain cryptocurrency protocol. Micali's research at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory centers on cryptography and information security. In 2012, he received the Turing Award for his work in cryptography.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Italian computer scientists born between 1917 and 1954. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Italian computer scientists include Silvio Micali. The most famous deceased Italian computer scientists include Robert Fano.
