# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-fano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:28.525Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-fano"
name: "Robert Fano"
slug: "robert-fano"
description: "Roberto Mario \"Robert\" Fano was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working lab partner to Claude Shannon, whom he admired zealously and assisted in the early years of information theory."
tagline: "Italian-American computer scientist (1917–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Fano_2012-03-13.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-11-11"
deathDate: "2016-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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