# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-jay-sussman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:00:50.031Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-jay-sussman"
name: "Gerald Jay Sussman"
slug: "gerald-jay-sussman"
description: "Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been involved in artificial intelligence (AI) research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education. Sussman has also worked in computer languages, in computer architecture, and in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jerry_Sussman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump