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Paul Vitanyi

Also known as Paul M. B. Vitanyi (OpenAlex)

Dutch theoretical computer scientistborn 1944

Wikidata names Arto Salomaa and Jaco de Bakker as doctoral advisors and lists 11 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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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 28 people: 28 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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

Coauthors in OpenAlex173

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ming Li

    105 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Rudi Cilibrasi

    25 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Harry Buhrman

    23 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    John Tromp

    21 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Tao Jiang

    17 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Nick Chater A

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Nikolay Vereshchagin

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    M. Li

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Joel Seiferas

    11 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Péter Gács

    8 shared works

OpenAlex lists 163 more people who share a work with them.