Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Richard Bird

British computer scientist1943 to 2022

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Oxford; Wikidata names Michael Bell as doctoral advisor and lists 3 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 7 other registers.

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Richard Bird, 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 Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata3

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 28 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 17 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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