Academic Ancestry

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Bruce Jay Nelson

American computer scientist1952 to 1999

Wikidata names Bob Sproull as doctoral advisor. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 5 other registers.

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Bruce Jay Nelson, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata1

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.

Education and career4

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