Academic Ancestry

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Donald Spencer Fussell

Ph.D. University of Texas at Dallas 1980

Wikidata names Abraham Silberschatz and Zvi Kedem as doctoral advisors and lists 13 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata and Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata13

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 42 people: 42 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.