# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-scheifler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:01:40.500Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-scheifler"
name: "Bob Scheifler"
slug: "bob-scheifler"
description: "Robert William Scheifler is an American computer scientist. He was born in Kirkwood, Missouri. He is most notable for leading the development of the X Window System from the project's inception in 1984 until the closure of the MIT X Consortium in 1996. He later\nbecame one of the architects of the Jini architecture at Sun Microsystems."
tagline: "Computer scientist"
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: "1954-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.4
  momentum:             0.5343511450381679
  historical:           6.804968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Robert Scheifler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوب شيفلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "باب شیفلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Scheifler"
    title: "Bob Scheifler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Scheifler"
    title: "Bob Scheifler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Scheifler"
    title: "Bob Scheifler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "باب شیفلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Scheifler"
    title: "Bob Scheifler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92668"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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