# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sally-floyd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:33.958Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sally-floyd"
name: "Sally Floyd"
slug: "sally-floyd"
description: "Sally Jean Floyd was an American computer scientist known for her work on computer networking. Formerly associated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she retired in 2009 and died in August 2019. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science."
tagline: "American computer scientist (1950-2019)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950-05-20"
deathDate: "2019-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.21
  momentum:             13.125
  historical:           8.742981333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "سالي فلويد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "سالى فلويد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Floyd"
    title: "Sally Floyd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7541"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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