# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boleslaw-szymanski
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:37:00.799Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boleslaw-szymanski"
name: "Boleslaw Szymanski"
slug: "boleslaw-szymanski"
description: "Bolesław Karol Szymański is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is known for multiple contributions to computer science, including Szymański's algorithm."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.13
  momentum:             1.944444444444445
  historical:           5.271310666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~szymansk/"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaw_Szymanski"
    title: "Boleslaw Szymanski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "بوليسلاف زيمانسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bolesław Szymański (scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Szyma%C5%84ski"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82aw_Szyma%C5%84ski_(matematyk)"
    title: "Bolesław Szymański (matematyk)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaw_Szymanski"
    title: "Boleslaw Szymanski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4939208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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