# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deborah-washington-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:15:03.370Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deborah-washington-brown"
name: "Deborah Washington Brown"
slug: "deborah-washington-brown"
description: "Deborah Washington Brown was an American computer scientist and speech recognition researcher who worked at AT&T Bell Labs, and other companies for many years doing speech recognition research. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate in computer science at Harvard University in 1981 from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She was one of the first black female computer scientists to graduate from a U. S. doctoral program. Mrs. Brown passed on June 5 after a long battle with cancer, her achievements and legacy remain as an inspiration for those who have followed in her footsteps."
tagline: "US computer scientist and speech recognition researcher"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-06-03"
deathDate: "2020-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7865168539325843
  historical:           6.336789333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ديبورا واشينطون براون"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Washington_Brown"
    title: "Deborah Washington Brown"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Washington_Brown"
    title: "Deborah Washington Brown"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Washington_Brown"
    title: "Deborah Washington Brown"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Washington_Brown"
    title: "Deborah Washington Brown"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump