===== Academic Genealogy =====

  * My Ph.D. advisors were [[https://www.thoughtworks.com/profiles/rebecca-parsons|Rebecca J. Parsons]] and [[http://www.cs.ucf.edu/%7Eceh|Charles E. Hughes]]
  * Rebecca's advisor was 
    * [[http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/|Matthias Felleisen]], whose advisor was 
      * [[http://www.cs.indiana.edu/%7Edfried/|Daniel P. Friedman]], whose advisor was 
        * Terrence W. Pratt, whose advisor was
          * Robert K. Lindsey, whose advisor was
            * [[http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0401/simon.html|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
      *[[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Boone.html|William Werner Boone]], whose advisor was
        * [[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Church.html|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" [[http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/Mathematicians/Turing.html|Alan M. Turing]]
          * Church was also the inventor of the **Lambda Calculus**\\
  * If you're interested in tracing academic genealogy, look at these websites:
    * [[http://www.sigact.acm.org/genealogy/index.html|The SIGACT Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy]]  [[https://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/genealogy/treeform.out | Tree text]]
    * [[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/|The Mathematics Genealogy Project]]\\