# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-estrin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:06:23.893Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-estrin"
name: "Gerald Estrin"
slug: "gerald-estrin"
description: "Gerald Estrin was an American computer scientist, and professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department. He is known for his work on the organization of computer systems, on parallel processing and SARA."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1921–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thelma_and_gerald_estrin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-09-09"
deathDate: "2012-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.418772563176895
  historical:           7.412384
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gerald Estrin"
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    title: "Gerald Estrin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump