# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hisao-yamada
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:18:00.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hisao-yamada"
name: "Hisao Yamada"
slug: "hisao-yamada"
description: "Hisao Yamada  was a Japanese computer scientist, known for his influential contributions to theoretical computer science, as well as for the development of Japanese keyboard layouts, a challenging practical problem. From 1972 to 1991, he was professor of the formal languages division at the Department for Information Science at the University of Tokyo."
tagline: "Japanese computer scientist (1930–2008)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1930-06-08"
deathDate: "2008-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.82
  momentum:             4.084507042253523
  historical:           6.536933333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao_Yamada"
    title: "Hisao Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "هيساو يامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "هيساو يامادا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao_Yamada"
    title: "Hisao Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao_Yamada"
    title: "Hisao Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao_Yamada"
    title: "Hisao Yamada"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E7%94%B0%E5%B0%9A%E5%8B%87"
    title: "山田尚勇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5772337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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