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Ivan Sutherland

American computer scientist and Internet pioneerborn 1938

Supervised 1 doctoral student at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Claude Shannon as doctoral advisor and lists 4 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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Ivan Sutherland, pictured

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Students1

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata4

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 5 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 4 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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