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Rodney Brooks

Australian roboticistborn 1954

Supervised 10 doctoral students (20 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Thomas Binford as doctoral advisor and lists 27 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Google Scholar, and 8 other registers.

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Rodney Brooks, pictured

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Students20

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata27

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 76 people: 11 cited by thesis records, 65 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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