# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-whitney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:38:39.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-whitney"
name: "Arthur Whitney"
slug: "arthur-whitney"
description: "Arthur Whitney is a Canadian computer scientist most notable for developing three programming languages inspired by APL: A+, k, and q, and for co-founding the U.S. companies Kx Systems and Shakti Software."
tagline: "Canadian computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KEI_with_ATW_NY_Aug_1989_(cropped)_-_Arthur_Whitney.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.25
  momentum:             2.628489480341332
  historical:           7.226496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Arthur Whitney (计算机科学家)"
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    title: "آرثر ويتني (عالم)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arthur Whitney"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Arthur Whitney (computer scientist)"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney"
    title: "Arthur Whitney"
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  - url: "https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney"
    title: "Arthur Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney"
    title: "Arthur Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney"
    title: "Arthur Whitney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q93050"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump