# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andries-van-dam
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:36:27.530Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andries-van-dam"
name: "Andries van Dam"
slug: "andries-van-dam"
description: "Andries \"Andy\" van Dam is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System (HES) in the late 1960s. He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes. He also co-founded the precursor of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference."
tagline: "Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University (born 1938)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andy_Van_Dam_2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.689022666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "اندريس فان دام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0"
    title: "アンドリーズ・ヴァン・ダム"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam"
    title: "Andries van Dam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2571880"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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