# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-parnas
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:45.922Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-parnas"
name: "David Parnas"
slug: "david-parnas"
description: "David Lorge Parnas is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also noted for his advocacy of precise documentation."
tagline: "Canadian software engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Parnas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-02-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David Parnas"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Parnas"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump