# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woody-bledsoe
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:51:53.151Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woody-bledsoe"
name: "Woody Bledsoe"
slug: "woody-bledsoe"
description: "Woodrow Wilson \"Woody\" Bledsoe was an American mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence (AI), making early contributions in pattern recognition, facial recognition, and automated theorem proving. He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career. One of his influences was Frank Rosenblatt."
tagline: "American mathematician and computer scientist (1921–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bledsoe.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-11-12"
deathDate: "1995-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27966266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "وودی بلدسو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Woody Bledsoe"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Bledsoe"
    title: "Woody Bledsoe"
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    title: "Woody Bledsoe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump