# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-t-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:30:30.792Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-t-ross"
name: "Douglas T. Ross"
slug: "douglas-t-ross"
description: "Douglas Taylor \"Doug\" Ross was an American computer scientist pioneer, and chairman of SofTech, Inc. He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT), a programming language to drive numerical control in manufacturing. His later work focused on a pseudophilosophy he developed and named Plex."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-12-21"
deathDate: "2007-01-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478942666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Douglas T. Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "دوغلاس تي روس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D8%AA%D9%89_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "دوجلاس تى روس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Douglas_T._Ross"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ダグラス・テイラー・ロス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%94%EA%B8%80%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4_T._%EB%A1%9C%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "더글러스 T. 로스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5302019"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump