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Edward Fredkin

American physicist and computer scientist, a pioneer of digital physics1934 to 2023

Supervised 3 doctoral students, 3 master's students, and 1 bachelor's student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1971 and 1987; Wikidata lists 2 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Edward Fredkin, pictured

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Students on Wikidata2

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Taught1

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  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Norman Margolus

    born 1955

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    Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 7 people: 3 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

    Education and career7

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