# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-d-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:19:59.993Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-d-clark"
name: "David D. Clark"
slug: "david-d-clark"
description: "David Dana \"Dave\" Clark is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer who has been involved with Internet developments since the mid-1970s. He currently works as a senior research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_D_Clark_in_office.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1756440281030445
  historical:           11.36461733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David D. Clark"
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    title: "데이비드 D. 클라크"
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    title: "David Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Девід Кларк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump