Academic Genealogy
- My Ph.D. advisors were Rebecca J. Parsons and Charles E. Hughes
- Rebecca’s advisor was
- Matthias Felleisen, whose advisor was
- Daniel P. Friedman, whose advisor was
- Terrence W. Pratt, whose advisor was
- Robert K. Lindsey, whose advisor was
- Herbert A. Simon, the father of Artificial Intelligence and too much else to list!
- Charlie’s advisor was
- Wilson E. (Gene) Singletary, whose advisor was
- William Werner Boone, whose advisor was
- Alonzo Church, of Church-Turing thesis fame:
- All computable functions are computable by a Turing machine
- yes, one of Church’s (many) famous students was my “uncle” Alan M. Turing
- Church was also the inventor of the Lambda Calculus
- If you’re interested in tracing academic genealogy, look at these websites:
