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Thomas Kailath

Also known as T. Kailath (OpenAlex)

American engineerborn 1935

Wikidata names John Wozencraft as doctoral advisor and lists 75 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Thomas Kailath, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata75

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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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 681 people: 681 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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