# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-j-denning
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:46:33.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-j-denning"
name: "Peter J. Denning"
slug: "peter-j-denning"
description: "Peter James Denning is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which addressed thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory management policies. He is also known for his works on principles of operating systems, operational analysis of queueing network systems, design and implementation of CSNET, the ACM digital library, and codifying the great principles of computing. He has written numerous influential articles and books, including an overview of fundamental computer science principles, computational thinking, and his thoughts on innovation as a set of learnable practices."
tagline: "American computer scientist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_J._Denning.jpg?width=1200"
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump