# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-e-fahlman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:18:47.988Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-e-fahlman"
name: "Scott E. Fahlman"
slug: "scott-e-fahlman"
description: "Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks, on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp, and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as \"the leader of Common Lisp.\" From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon."
tagline: "Computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SEF2007a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.672051898607354
  historical:           17.10716666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "scott-fahlman-aa300724"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/"
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    title: "Scott Fahlman"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fahlman"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Fahlman"
    title: "Scott Fahlman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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