Academic Ancestry

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Andries van Dam

Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University (born 1938)born 1938

Wikidata names Harry Joshua Gray, Jr. as doctoral advisor and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Andries van Dam, pictured

Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below2 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 65 people: 65 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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