# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-siegel
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:58:12.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/neil-siegel"
name: "Neil Siegel"
slug: "neil-siegel"
description: "Neil Gilbert Siegel is an American computer scientist and computer engineer, known for his development of many key systems for the United States military, including the Blue-Force Tracking system, the U.S. Army's first unmanned air vehicle system, and the US Army forward-area air defense system. Several of his inventions also found their way into consumer products, such as hand-held devices whose map displays automatically orient themselves to align with the real-world's cardinal points. He also participated in the development of techniques that are now widely-used in healthcare."
tagline: "American computer scientist (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Neil_Siegel_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.578082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  73
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilsiegel/"
    handle:    "neilsiegel"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%84"
    title: "نيل سيغل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel"
    title: "Neil Siegel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel"
    title: "Neil Siegel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15995467"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations