# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jurgen-schmidhuber
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:52:17.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jurgen-schmidhuber"
name: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
slug: "jurgen-schmidhuber"
description: "Jürgen Schmidhuber is a German computer scientist noted for his work in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically artificial neural networks. He has been described by media outlets as a leading pioneer of modern artificial intelligence. He is a scientific director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Switzerland. He is also director of the Artificial Intelligence Initiative and professor of the Computer Science program in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) division at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia."
tagline: "German computer scientist and artificial intelligence researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber%2C_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.070792
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/SchmidhuberAI"
    handle:    "SchmidhuberAI"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "يورغن شميدهوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يورجن شميدهوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber"
    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber"
    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber"
    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber"
    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Шмидхубер, Юрген"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jirgen_%C5%A0miduber"
    title: "Jirgen Šmiduber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Schmidhuber"
    title: "Jürgen Schmidhuber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D1%80%D2%91%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A8%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Юрґен Шмідгубер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "于尔根·施密德胡伯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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