# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-perlis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:15:44.591Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-perlis"
name: "Alan Perlis"
slug: "alan-perlis"
description: "Alan Jay Perlis was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and educator who helped establish computer science as an academic discipline. He was a pioneer in compiler construction and programming language design, and in 1966 became the first recipient of the A. M. Turing Award. The Association for Computing Machinery cited him \"for his influence in the area of advanced programming techniques and compiler construction\"."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1922–1990)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Alan_Perlis.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1922-04-01"
deathDate: "1990-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           23.669444
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump