The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Tunisia
This page contains a list of the greatest Tunisian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Tunisia. This makes Tunisia the birth place of the 27th most number of Computer Scientists behind Romania, and Venezuela.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tunisian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Tunisian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Paul G. Comba (1926 - 2017)
With an HPI of 49.65, Paul G. Comba is the most famous Tunisian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Paul G. Comba (1926 – April 5, 2017) was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. He was born in Tunisia to Italian parents in 1926, and moved to Italy at a young age. Admitted to university studies at the age of 17, He attended the University of Turin (1943–46). In 1946 he moved to the United States to attend Bluffton College, from which he graduated in 1947. He then attended Caltech, and completed his Ph.D. work in mathematics in 1951 (the degree was conferred at commencement in 1952). In 1951 he moved to Honolulu where he taught at the University of Hawaii until 1960. He then joined IBM as a software developer, and later as a member of the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center. There he worked in Cryptography, and also developed a multiplication algorithm for large numbers, which reduces the multiplication time to as little as 3% of the conventional algorithm. In 2003 he won the Leslie C. Peltier Award for his contribution to astronomy. He is the author of the Astronomical League's Asteroid Club Observing Guide, and was an active member of the Prescott Astronomy Club.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Tunisian computer scientists born between 1926 and 1926. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Tunisian computer scientists include Paul G. Comba.
