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William Daniel Hillis

American computer scientist (born 1956)born 1956

Wikidata names Claude Shannon, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Marvin Minsky as doctoral advisors and names Richard Feynman as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 7 other registers.

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William Daniel Hillis, pictured

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Advisors on Wikidata3

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Teachers and mentors1

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

    Richard Feynman

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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.

Education and career2

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