The Oracle of Bacon

Acknowledgements

Patrick Reynolds, who rebuilt the Oracle in 1999 and has maintained it since

Brett Tjaden, who originally conceived and implemented the Oracle in 1996

Wikipedia is the source of all our movie, actor, and actress data. Used under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license, version 3.0.

The script for extracting structured film data from Wikipedia is at https://github.com/piki/wikipedia-film-database.
The most recent snapshot of the data is at https://oracleofbacon.org/data.txt.bz2.

The original Oracle made use of the ADAMS OODBMS. Thanks to Russ Haddleton and Glenn Wasson for their assistance.

Thanks to the UVA Computer Science Department for hosting the Oracle from 1995-2008

The photograph of Kevin Bacon comes from Flickr user SAGIndie (via Wikipedia) and is used under CC Attribution license

Paul Erdos, on whose Erdos numbers our idea for Bacon numbers was based