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 36th most number of Computer Scientists behind Guatemala, and Australia.
Top 1
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 43.03, Ruzena Bajcsy is the most famous Slovak Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Ruzena Bajcsy (born 28 May 1933 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) 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). 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Slovak computer scientists born between 1933 and 1933. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Slovak computer scientists include Ruzena Bajcsy.
