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Benjamin C. Pierce

American professor of computer scienceborn 1963

Wikidata names John C. Reynolds and Robert Harper as doctoral advisors and lists 8 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors on Wikidata2

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Students on Wikidata8

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 15 people: 15 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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