# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-kennedy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:49:24.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-kennedy"
name: "Ken Kennedy"
slug: "ken-kennedy"
description: "Ken Kennedy was an American computer scientist and professor at Rice University. He was the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KenKennedy2001.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: "1945-08-12"
deathDate: "2007-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.676386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kennedy_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "Ken Kennedy (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%89_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "كين كينيدى (عالم كومبيوتر من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_W._Kennedy"
    title: "Kenneth W. Kennedy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kennedy_(cientista_da_computa%C3%A7%C3%A3o)"
    title: "Ken Kennedy (cientista da computação)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kennedy_(informaticien)"
    title: "Ken Kennedy (informaticien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%99_(%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%9F)"
    title: "קן קנדי (מדען)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6387935"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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