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Joseph Halpern

Israeli-American computer scientist1953 to 2026

Supervised 2 doctoral students at Cornell University; Wikidata names Albert R. Meyer and Gerald Sacks as doctoral advisors and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 7 other registers.

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Joseph Halpern, pictured

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.

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata11

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 78 people: 2 cited by thesis records, 76 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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

Sat beside the lineage5

committee member, not advisor