Academic Ancestry

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Boleslaw Szymanski

American computer scientistborn 1950

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Wikidata names Helena Rasiowa and Jacek Bankowski as doctoral advisors and lists 39 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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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.

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students2

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata39

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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 45 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 43 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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

Sat beside the lineage2

committee member, not advisor