Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Eric Grimson

Computer scientistborn 1953

Supervised 2 doctoral students, 3 master's students, and 2 bachelor's students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1990 and 2010; Wikidata names David Marr as doctoral advisor, lists 12 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Two steps up and one down. Solid lines from Wikidata. The full sheet opens at four up and two down.

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Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata12

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.

The line above and below2 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 28 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 26 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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