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by ig1 4483 days ago
I think it's too early to say, because the impact of work is seen over time.

But candidates probably include Breiman/Cutler for Random Forests, Dean/Ghemawat for MapReduce, Peter Shor for Shor's algorithm, Daphne Koller for machine learning, Jon Kleinberg for network algorithms, Luis von Ahn for human computation.