# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-d-foley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:17:42.649Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-d-foley"
name: "James D. Foley"
slug: "james-d-foley"
description: "James David Foley is an American computer scientist and computer graphics researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus and held the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. He was Interim Dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing from 2008–2010. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 400,000 copies are in print and translated in ten languages. Foley most recently conducted research in instructional technologies and distance education."
tagline: "American academic"
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: "1942-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             6.521739130434782
  historical:           5.471382666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley"
    title: "James D. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AF._%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جيمس د. فولي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%AF._%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "جيمس د. فولى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley"
    title: "James D. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley"
    title: "James D. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley"
    title: "James D. Foley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6132114"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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