# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-kates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:23:03.297Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-kates"
name: "Josef Kates"
slug: "josef-kates"
description: "Josef Kates, born Josef Katz, was a Canadian engineer whose achievements include designing the first digital game-playing machine, and the world's first automated traffic signalling system."
tagline: "Canadian engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1921-05-05"
deathDate: "2018-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.21
  momentum:             15.91503267973856
  historical:           7.412024000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%B9%D8%B3"
    title: "جوزف کیٹس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kates"
    title: "Josef Kates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kates"
    title: "Josef Kates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kates"
    title: "Josef Kates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84"
    title: "ジョセフ・ケイツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Кейтс, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Kates"
    title: "Josef Kates"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D1%81"
    title: "Джозеф Кейтс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6279925"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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