# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melvin-conway
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:12:20.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melvin-conway"
name: "Melvin Conway"
slug: "melvin-conway"
description: "Melvin Edward Conway is an American computer scientist, computer programmer, and hacker who coined what is now known as Conway's law: \"Organizations, who design systems, are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.\" Conway developed the concept of coroutines."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
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birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.27906976744186
  historical:           6.372393333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/conways_law"
    handle:    "conways_law"
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    url:       "https://www.melconway.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump