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Ron Rivest

American cryptographerborn 1947

Supervised 1 doctoral student (2 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Robert W. Floyd as doctoral advisor and lists 28 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 9 other registers.

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Ron Rivest, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata28

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 140 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 139 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career5

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