# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-burks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:43.203Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-burks"
name: "Arthur Burks"
slug: "arthur-burks"
description: "Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the ENIAC having been derived from John Vincent Atanasoff. Burks was also for several decades a faculty member at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor."
tagline: "American mathematician who contributed to the design of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (1915–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Burks.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: "1915-10-13"
deathDate: "2008-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.35
  momentum:             13.14058299509778
  historical:           7.878258666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Arthur Burks"
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    title: "آرثر بيركس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Burks"
    title: "Arthur W. Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Burks"
    title: "Arthur Burks"
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    title: "Arthur Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Burks"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Burks"
    title: "Arthur Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アーサー・バークス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthurus_Burks"
    title: "Arthurus Burks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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