# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raphael-finkel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:55:22.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raphael-finkel"
name: "Raphael Finkel"
slug: "raphael-finkel"
description: "Raphael Finkel is an American computer scientist and a retired professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-06-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.769230769230769
  historical:           6.80432
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "拉斐爾·芬克爾"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Raphael Finkel"
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    title: "رافائيل فينكل"
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    title: "رافائيل فينكل"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel"
    title: "Raphael Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Finkel"
    title: "Raphael Finkel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Финкель, Рафаэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "רפאל פינקל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump