# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-odersky
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:57:25.670Z

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name: "Martin Odersky"
slug: "martin-odersky"
description: "Martin Odersky is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages. He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java."
tagline: "German computer scientist, inventor of Scala programming language"
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birthDate: "1958-09-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump