# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-samuel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:51:57.268Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-samuel"
name: "Arthur Samuel"
slug: "arthur-samuel"
description: "Arthur Lee Samuel was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He coined the term machine learning in 1959. The Samuel Checkers-playing Program was among the world's first successful self-learning programs, and as such a very early demonstration of the fundamental concept of artificial intelligence. He was also a senior member in the TeX community who devoted much time giving personal attention to the needs of users and wrote an early TeX manual in 1983."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1901–1990)"
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: "1901-12-05"
deathDate: "1990-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.59323733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Άρθουρ Σάμουελ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Samuel (ilmuwan komputer)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Samuel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "อาเธอร์ ซามูเอล"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Артур Семюель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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