# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-j-van-rijsbergen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:38:24.579Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-j-van-rijsbergen"
name: "C. J. van Rijsbergen"
slug: "c-j-van-rijsbergen"
description: "C. J. \"Keith\" van Rijsbergen FREng is a professor of computer science at the University of Glasgow, where he founded the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group. He is one of the founders of modern Information Retrieval and the author of the seminal monograph Information Retrieval and of the textbook The Geometry of Information Retrieval."
tagline: "Dutch computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C_J_van_Rijsbergen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.491326666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Joost_van_Rijsbergen"
    title: "Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%86"
    title: "سي. جيه. فان ريسبيرغن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%89._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%86"
    title: "سى. جيه. فان ريسبيرجن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_van_Rijsbergen"
    title: "Keith van Rijsbergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._van_Rijsbergen"
    title: "C. J. van Rijsbergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_van_Rijsbergen"
    title: "Keith van Rijsbergen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92667"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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