# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-g-neumann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:30:39.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-g-neumann"
name: "Peter G. Neumann"
slug: "peter-g-neumann"
description: "Peter Gabriel Neumann was an American computer science researcher who studied how computer systems fail and advocated for the principles that make them fail less often.. Neumann worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s, and edited the RISKS Digest columns for ACM Software Engineering Notes and Communications of the ACM. He founded ACM SIGSOFT and was a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and AAAS."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1932 - 2026)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_G._Neumann_-a_(cropped1).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1932-09-21"
deathDate: "2026-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.323076923076924
  historical:           4.473908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-neumann-2667ab19/"
    handle:    "peter-neumann-2667ab19"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.csl.sri.com/~neumann/"
sources:
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    title: "بيتر غبريال نيومان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیتر جی. نویمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann"
    title: "Peter G. Neumann"
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  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann"
    title: "Peter G. Neumann"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_G._Neumann"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7174137"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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