# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-t-schwartz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:33:54.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-t-schwartz"
name: "Jacob T. Schwartz"
slug: "jacob-t-schwartz"
description: "Jacob Theodore \"Jack\" Schwartz was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. He founded the New York University Department of Computer Science, chairing it from 1964 to 1980."
tagline: "American mathematician and computer scientist (1930-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Jacob_T._Schwartz%2C_Director%2C_Information_Science_and_Technology_Office.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-01-09"
deathDate: "2009-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.557237333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jacob Schwartz"
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    title: "جاكوب تي. شفارتز"
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    title: "Jacob Schwartz"
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    title: "Jacob T. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_T._Schwartz"
    title: "Jacob T. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_T._Schwartz"
    title: "Jacob T. Schwartz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Schwartz"
    title: "Jack Schwartz"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schwartz"
    title: "Jacob Schwartz"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Theodore_Schwartz"
    title: "Jacob Theodore Schwartz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump