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:
The SIGACT Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy
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The Mathematics Genealogy Project