# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oliver-selfridge
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:18:05.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oliver-selfridge"
name: "Oliver Selfridge"
slug: "oliver-selfridge"
description: "Oliver Gordon Selfridge was a British-American mathematician and computer scientist who pioneered the early foundations of modern artificial intelligence. He is mostly known for his 1959 paper, Pandemonium: A Paradigm For Learning describing what's now known as the Pandemonium Architecture. He has been called the \"Father of Machine Perception.\""
tagline: "British computer scientist (1926–2008)"
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birthDate: "1926-05-10"
deathDate: "2008-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump