# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-weiser
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:27:21.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-weiser"
name: "Mark Weiser"
slug: "mark-weiser"
description: "Mark D. Weiser was an American computer scientist and chief technology officer (CTO) at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988. Within Silicon Valley, Weiser was broadly viewed as a visionary and computer pioneer, and his ideas have influenced many of the world's leading computer scientists."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1952-1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Weiser.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-07-23"
deathDate: "1999-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.227402473834443
  historical:           13.57581333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mark Weiser"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump