The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Slovakia
This page contains a list of the greatest Slovak Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Slovakia. This makes Slovakia the birth place of the 24th most number of Computer Scientists behind Sri Lanka, and Latvia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Slovak Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Slovak Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Ruzena Bajcsy (b. 1933)
With an HPI of 60.06, Ruzena Bajcsy is the most famous Slovak Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Ruzena Bajcsy (born 28 May 1933) is an American engineer and computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences 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). Her main focus was as a computer scientist and an engineer with a strong focus on robotics. She lived through some of the most important years in computing and AI. Born in 1933 in Bratislava, she survived the Holocaust as a young girl before pursuing engineering during a period when women were extremely underrepresented in the field. She earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in Czechoslovakia and then did a second Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford in 1972, which put her in the lead of early AI research. After her own schooling, Bajcsy spent 28 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where she founded the GRASP Laboratory, today one of the world's premier robotics research labs. In 2001 she went to Cal Berkeley as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and later became the director of CITRIS, an organization focused on applying new technologies to societal challenges. Over her career, she earned some of the most important awards in engineering and computer science, including being part of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Franklin Medal, and the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology. She was previously professor and chair of computer science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the founding director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, and a member of the Neurosciences Institute in the School of Medicine. She has also been head of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, with authority over a $500 million budget. She supervised at least 26 doctoral students at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2005. She is the mother of computer-science professor Klara Nahrstedt.
2. Andrej Karpathy (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 41.57, Andrej Karpathy is the 2nd most famous Slovak Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Andrej Karpathy (born 23 October 1986) is a Slovak-Canadian computer scientist who served as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla. He co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Slovak computer scientists born between 1933 and 1986. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Slovak computer scientists include Ruzena Bajcsy, and Andrej Karpathy. As of April 2024, 1 new Slovak computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Andrej Karpathy.
