# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-s-lam
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:24.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-s-lam"
name: "Simon S. Lam"
slug: "simon-s-lam"
description: "Simon S. Lam is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He retired in 2018 from The University of Texas at Austin as Professor Emeritus and Regents' Chair Emeritus in Computer Science #1. He made seminal and important contributions to transport layer security, packet network verification, as well as network protocol design, verification, and performance analysis."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_S_Lam_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672642666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S._Lam"
    title: "Simon S. Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "سيمون إس. لام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S._Lam"
    title: "Simon S. Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S._Lam"
    title: "Simon S. Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%85"
    title: "سیمون اس لم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_S._Lam"
    title: "Simon S. Lam"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4678408"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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