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Larry L. Peterson

American computer scientist at Princeton Universityborn 1958

Supervised 6 doctoral students at University of Arizona between 1990 and 1999; Wikidata names Douglas Comer as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 6 other registers.

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Larry L. Peterson, 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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Students6

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata20

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 51 people: 6 cited by thesis records, 45 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Sat beside the lineage6

committee member, not advisor