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Gerald Jay Sussman

American computer scientistborn 1947

Supervised 19 doctoral students (30 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; doctorate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 under Seymour Papert; Wikidata lists 38 doctoral students and lists 1 person they taught. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 7 other registers.

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Advisors1

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Seymour Papert“A computational model of skill acquisition.”

    1973 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral

Students30

Students on Wikidata38

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.

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 209 people: 32 cited by thesis records, 179 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career2

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

Works1

1973 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?