# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-newman-q26225973
# Generated: 2026-09-01T10:25:54.670Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-newman-q26225973"
name: "William Newman"
slug: "william-newman-q26225973"
description: "William Maxwell Newman was a British computer scientist. With others at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s Newman demonstrated the advantages of the raster display technology first deployed in the Xerox Alto personal workstation, developing interactive programs for producing illustrations and drawings. With Bob Sproull he co-authored the first major textbook on interactive computer graphics."
tagline: "Computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Newman_on_Beinn_Alligin_June_2011-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1939-05-21"
deathDate: "2019-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.89
  momentum:             3.882352941176471
  historical:           2.204248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  36
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Newman"
    title: "William Newman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Newman_(computer_scientist)"
    title: "William Newman (computer scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26225973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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