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Gordon Plotkin

Also known as Gordon D. Plotkin (OpenAlex)

Scottish computer scientistborn 1946

Supervised 23 doctoral students at The University of Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh. College of Science and Engineering. School of Informatics.; doctorate at The University of Edinburgh in 1972 under Rod Burstall and Donald Michie; Wikidata lists 15 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 9 other registers.

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Advisors2

  • cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata

    Rod Burstall“Automatic methods of inductive inference”

    1972 · The University of Edinburgh · doctoral
  • cited by a thesis record

    Donald Michie“Automatic methods of inductive inference”

    1972 · The University of Edinburgh · doctoral

Students23

Students on Wikidata15

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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.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 111 people: 31 cited by thesis records, 81 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

Education and career2

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

Works1

1972 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

What their ORCID record lists

The works their own ORCID record lists, as they claim them: shown apart from the record's works, never checked or counted with them.

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Coauthors in OpenAlex135

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Colin Stirling

    23 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Martı́n Abadi

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mads Tofte

    22 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Prakash Panangaden

    15 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    John Power

    14 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Radu Mardare

    12 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Giorgio Bacci

    7 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Glynn Winskel

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Marcelo Fiore

    6 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Benjamin C. Pierce

    5 shared works

OpenAlex lists 125 more people who share a work with them.