Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

Geoffrey Hinton

Also known as Geoffrey E. Hinton (OpenAlex)

British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologistborn 1947

Supervised 10 doctoral students; Wikidata names H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins as doctoral advisor, lists 32 doctoral students, and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 10 other registers.

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Geoffrey Hinton, 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.

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

Students10

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata32

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Taught1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    Alex Krizhevsky

    born 2000

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 89 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 78 stated by Wikidata.

Theses

Education and career5

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