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Samson Abramsky

Computer scientistborn 1953

Supervised 31 doctoral students and 1 master's student at University of Oxford, Oxford University, UK, and University of Edinburgh. College of Science and Engineering. School of Informatics. between 1999 and 2025; doctorate in 1987; Wikidata names Richard Bornat as doctoral advisor and lists 20 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Theses2

Advisors2

The thesis record names Bob Coecke and Jonathan Barrett; Wikidata names Richard Bornat.

  • cited by a thesis record

    Bob Coecke“Institutions under composition”

    2022 · University of Oxford · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    Jonathan Barrett“Institutions under composition”

    2022 · University of Oxford · doctoral

Students32

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Students on Wikidata20

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below1 step

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 67 people: 35 cited by thesis records, 34 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career8

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

Works2

1987: 12022: 1
1987most in 1987: 12022

1987 to 2022 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

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