Academic Ancestry

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Barbara Liskov

Also known as Barbara H. Liskov (OpenAlex)

American computer scientistborn 1939

Supervised 5 doctoral students (36 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names John McCarthy as doctoral advisor, lists 29 doctoral students, and names John McCarthy as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 9 other registers.

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Barbara Liskov, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Dashed lines come from thesis records, solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students36

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata29

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

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

    John McCarthy

The line above and below4 steps

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 129 people: 5 cited by thesis records, 124 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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