# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-artwick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:00:15.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-artwick"
name: "Bruce Artwick"
slug: "bruce-artwick"
description: "Bruce Arthur Artwick is an American software engineer. He is the creator of the first consumer flight simulator software. He founded Sublogic after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1977, and released the first version of Flight Simulator for the Apple II in 1979. His Apple II software was purchased by Microsoft in 1982 and became Microsoft Flight Simulator."
tagline: "American programmer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.06
  momentum:             0.1594533029612756
  historical:           5.282722666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick"
    title: "Bruce Artwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick"
    title: "Bruce Artwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick"
    title: "Bruce Artwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick"
    title: "Bruce Artwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1_%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "ברוס ארטוויק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Artwick"
    title: "Bruce Artwick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4977085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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