# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-l-wolf
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:15:35.416Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-l-wolf"
name: "Alexander L. Wolf"
slug: "alexander-l-wolf"
description: "Alexander L. Wolf is an American computer scientist known for his research in software engineering, distributed systems,\nand computer networking. He is credited, along with his collaborators, with introducing the modern study of software architecture, content-based publish/subscribe messaging, content-based networking, automated process discovery, and the software deployment lifecycle. Wolf's 1985 Ph.D. dissertation developed language features for expressing a module's import/export specifications and the notion of multiple interfaces for a type, both of which are now common in modern computer programming languages."
tagline: "Computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alw-portrait-2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-09-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             4.945054945054945
  historical:           5.671562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BaskinEng_Dean"
    handle:    "BaskinEng_Dean"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Wolf"
    title: "Alexander L. Wolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81"
    title: "ألكسندر إل. وولف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81"
    title: "الكسندر ال. وولف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wolf"
    title: "Alexander Wolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Wolf"
    title: "Alexander L. Wolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_L._Wolf"
    title: "Alexander L. Wolf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17102488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump