# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clifford-a-pickover
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:50:45.830Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clifford-a-pickover"
name: "Clifford A. Pickover"
slug: "clifford-a-pickover"
description: "Clifford Alan Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity. For many years, he was employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York, where he was editor-in-chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development. He has been granted more than 700 U.S. patents, is an elected Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and is author of more than 50 books, translated into more than a dozen languages."
tagline: "American author and scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pickover.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-09-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.54
  momentum:             11.99001050415737
  historical:           8.307058666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.pickover.com/"
sources:
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    title: "柯利弗德·皮寇弗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كليفورد بيكوفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_A._Pickover"
    title: "Clifford A. Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_A._Pickover"
    title: "Clifford A. Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Pickover"
    title: "Clifford Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Pickover"
    title: "Clifford Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_A._Pickover"
    title: "Clifford A. Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_A._Pickover"
    title: "Clifford A. Pickover"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump