# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-herlihy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:55:35.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-herlihy"
name: "Maurice Herlihy"
slug: "maurice-herlihy"
description: "Maurice Peter Herlihy is an American computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. Herlihy has contributed to areas including theoretical foundations of wait-free synchronization, linearizable data structures, applications of combinatorial topology to distributed computing, as well as hardware and software transactional memory. He is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.631205673758866
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Херлихи, Морис"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Herlihy"
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    title: "Maurice Herlihy"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump