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Alan H. Borning

American computer scientistborn 1950

Wikidata names Alan Kay and Terry Winograd as doctoral advisors and lists 12 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 24 people: 24 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex191

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Bjorn N. Freeman-Benson

    27 shared works
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    Batya Friedman

    17 shared works
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    Paul A. Waddell

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Travis Kriplean

    13 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Kari Edison Watkins

    10 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Brian Ferris

    9 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Greg J. Badros

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Molly Wilson

    8 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Peter H. Kahn

    7 shared works
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    Peter J. Stuckey

    7 shared works

OpenAlex lists 181 more people who share a work with them.