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Seymour Papert

MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator1928 to 2016

Wikidata names Frank Smithies and Jean Piaget as doctoral advisors, lists 27 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Seymour Papert, 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.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata27

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

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

    Terry Winograd

    born 1946

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 289 people: 289 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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