# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-winston
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:40:35.003Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-winston"
name: "Patrick Winston"
slug: "patrick-winston"
description: "Patrick Henry Winston was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, succeeding Marvin Minsky, who left to help found the MIT Media Lab. Winston was succeeded as director by Rodney Brooks."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1943-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_Winston_2018.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: "1943-02-05"
deathDate: "2019-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.32744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "پاتریک وینستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Vinston"
    title: "Patrik Vinston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Patrick Winston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Winston"
    title: "Patrick Winston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Patrick Winston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Patrick Winston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump