# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-randell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:35:35.209Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-randell"
name: "Brian Randell"
slug: "brian-randell"
description: "Brian Randell is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computing hardware."
tagline: "British computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472426666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Randell"
    title: "Brian Randell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Randell"
    title: "Brian Randell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%84"
    title: "بريان راندل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Браян Ренделл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Randell"
    title: "Brian Randell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Randell"
    title: "Brian Randell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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