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James Gosling

Canadian computer scientistborn 1955

Wikidata names Bob Sproull and Raj Reddy as doctoral advisors. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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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.

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