# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-l-flanagan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:10:51.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-l-flanagan"
name: "James L. Flanagan"
slug: "james-l-flanagan"
description: "James Loton Flanagan was an American electrical engineer. He was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He was also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is known for co-developing adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) with P. Cummiskey and Nikil Jayant at Bell Labs."
tagline: "American engineer (1925-2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-08-26"
deathDate: "2015-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "জেমস লোটন ফ্ল্যানাগান"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James L. Flanagan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump