Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David D. Clark

American computer scientistborn 1944

Supervised 7 doctoral students, 24 master's students, 1 bachelor's student, and 3 students of a level not given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1976 and 2023; Wikidata names Jerry Saltzer as doctoral advisor and lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

David D. Clark, pictured

How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Students35

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata15

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 45 people: 7 cited by thesis records, 38 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

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