# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-j-farber
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:48:53.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-j-farber"
name: "David J. Farber"
slug: "david-j-farber"
description: "David Jack Farber was an American professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking and was a distinguished professor and co-director of Cyber Civilization Research Center at Keio University in Japan.\nFarber was widely known as a mentor who maintained a global list of contacts in the high technology field, often connecting people with problems that needed solving."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1934–2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Farber%2C_May_2008.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-04-17"
deathDate: "2026-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.418324
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Farber"
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    title: "ديفيد جاى فاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دیوید فاربر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Farber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "デイビッド・J・ファーバー"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump