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Marc L. Smith

Marc L. Smith

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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 Tree text
    • The Mathematics Genealogy Project
Computer Science | Vassar College

Computer Science | Vassar College