# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-simons-q14250
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:33:22.509Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-simons-q14250"
name: "Barbara Simons"
slug: "barbara-simons-q14250"
description: "Barbara Bluestein Simons is an American computer scientist and the former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is a Ph.D. graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and spent her early career working as an IBM researcher. She is the founder and former co-chair of USACM, the ACM U.S. Public Policy Council. Her main areas of research are compiler optimization, scheduling theory and algorithm analysis and design."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_Simons_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1941-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48
  momentum:             3.026315789473684
  historical:           5.541510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Simons"
    title: "Barbara Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "باربرا سيمونس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "باربرا سيمونس (عالمه كومبيوتر من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Simons"
    title: "Barbara Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Simons"
    title: "Barbara Simons"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%A1"
    title: "ברברה סימונס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14250"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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