# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mitchel-resnick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:34:23.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mitchel-resnick"
name: "Mitchel Resnick"
slug: "mitchel-resnick"
description: "Mitchel Resnick is an American computer scientist. He is the LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, and is the founder of Scratch. As of 2019, Resnick serves as head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program, which grants master's degrees and Ph.D.s at the MIT Media Lab."
tagline: "American academic (b. 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mitchel_Resnick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.390728476821192
  historical:           8.782653333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Мітчел Резнік"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump