Academic genealogy of computer scientists

The following is an academic genealogy of computer scientists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors.

Europe

Denmark

• Peter Naur

• (Olivier Danvy)

Finland

• Arto Salomaa

France

Many French computer scientists worked at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA).

• Marcel-Paul Schützenberger
  • Maurice Nivat
    • Philippe Flajolet
    • Gérard Huet
      • Francois Fages
      • Thierry Coquand
        • Hugo Herbelin
      • Xavier Leroy
      • Christine Paulin-Mohring
      • Didier Rémy
        • François Pottier
    • Bruno Courcelle
  • Louis Nolin
    • Bernard Robinet
      • Emmanuel Saint-James
      • Olivier Danvy (Secondary advisor: Emmanuel Saint-James)
  • Jean-François Perrot
    • Jacques Sakarovitch
    • Jean-Eric Pin
      • Pascal Weil

• Gérard Berry

• Gilles Kahn

• Patrick Cousot

• Alain Colmerauer

Germany

• Karl Steinbuch

• Kurt Mehlhorn

• Franz Baader

• Carl Adam Petri

• Martin Odersky

Great Britain

• James H. Wilkinson

Edinburgh

Rod Burstall was one of the founders of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

• • • • Thomas Hildebrandt
    • Philippa Gardner
    • Alex Simpson (computer scientist)
  • • Panagiotis Manolios
  • Michael J. C. Gordon
    • Jeffrey Joyce
  • • David Aspinall
    • Martin Hofmann (Secondary advisor: Gordon Plotkin)
  • Thorsten Altenkirch
  • Michael Mendler (Secondary advisor: Michael P. Fourman)
  • Masahito Hasegawa

• Robin Popplestone

• Alan Mycroft

Cambridge

Maurice Wilkes was the first head of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

• Maurice Wilkes
  • Peter Wegner
    • Clement McGowan (Secondary advisor: Juris Hartmanis)
    • Daniel M. Berry (Secondary advisor: Clement McGowan)
      • Nancy Leveson (Secondary advisor: Anthony Ira Wasserman)

Robin Milner never did a Ph.D.

• Robin Milner
  • Mads Tofte
  • Faron Moller
  • Chris Tofts

• David Wheeler
  • Roger Needham
    • Ross J. Anderson
    • David L. Tennenhouse
    • Peter G. Gyarmati

Oxford

Christopher Strachey was the first Professor of Computation at Oxford.

• Christopher Strachey
  • Peter Landin (worked as the assistant of Strachey, did not do a PhD.)
  • Chris Wadsworth
  • Peter Mosses
    • Jens Palsberg
  • David Turner (Secondary advisor: Dana Scott)

Tony Hoare established the undergraduate computer science course and led the Oxford University Computing Laboratory for many years.

• Tony Hoare
  • Cliff Jones (computer scientist)
    • Tobias Nipkow
  • Bill Roscoe
  • Peter Lauer (computer scientist)
    • Eike Best
      • Javier Esparza

Warwick

• Mike Paterson
  • Leslie Valiant

Italy

• Corrado Böhm

Netherlands

Van Wijngaarden / Dijkstra

Adriaan van Wijngaarden was director of the computer science department at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. It was influential in the development of ALGOL 68.

• • • • • (Secondary advisor: Guy L. Steele, Jr.)

      • (Secondary advisor: Frans Kruseman Aretz)

        • (Secondary advisor: Edsger Dijkstra)

        • (Secondary advisor: Edsger Dijkstra)

        • (Secondary advisor: Frans Kruseman Aretz)

    • • (Secondary advisor: Arto K. Salomaa)

        • (Secondary advisor: Ivan Bjerre Damgård)

      • • • (Primary advisor: Christian Anton Vissers)

      • • (Secondary advisor: Johan van Benthem)

      • (Secondary advisor: Joost Kok)

    • • • (Secondary advisor: Martin Kersten)

      • (Secondary advisor: Anthony Ira Wasserman)

      • (Primary advisor: Sipke D. Fokkema)

    • • (Secondary advisor: Randy G. Goebel)

    • (Secondary advisor: Pieter Cornelis Baayen)

      • (Primary advisor: Steven Elliot Homer)

    • (Secondary advisor: C.H.A. Koster)

Brouwer / Van Dalen

Several of the students of Dirk van Dalen, a descendant of Brouwer, became the first Dutch theoretical computer scientists, which still has a strong focus on lambda calculus, rewrite systems and functional programming.

• • • • • (Primary advisor: Bob Hertzberger )

        • (Secondary advisor: Corrado Böhm)

      • • (Secondary advisor: Marc Bezem)

      • (Secondary advisor: Jan van Leeuwen)

    • • • (Secondary advisor: Johan van Benthem)

      • (Secondary advisor: Dirk van Dalen)

Norway

• Ole-Johan Dahl
• Kristen Nygaard
• Trygve Reenskaug

Poland

• Grzegorz Rozenberg
• Antoni W. Mazurkiewicz

Sweden

• Lennart Augustsson

North America

Church

• • • • • • Philip Franklin
            • Alan Perlis
              • Gary Lindstrom
              • David Parnas
                • Richard J. Lipton
                  • Dan Boneh
                  • Avi Wigderson
          • • • • Steven Muchnick
                  • Uwe Frederik Pleban
                    • Peter Lee
                • Kurt Mehlhorn
                • Edmund M. Clarke

                • • (Secondary advisor: John C. Reynolds)

                  • Gregory Morrisett
            • • Theodore Hailperin
              • Steven Orey
              • Elliott Mendelson
              • George Collins (logician)
              • Gerald Sacks
            • • David Park (computer scientist)
                • Mike Paterson
                  • Ian Parberry
                  • Leslie Valiant
              • • Nancy Lynch
                • Leonid Levin
                • Jeanne Ferrante
                • Charles Rackoff
                • Larry Stockmeyer
                • David Harel
                • Joseph Halpern
            • • Angus Macintyre
              • Marko Petkovšek
              • Fred S. Roberts
              • Ketan Mulmuley
            • Peter B. Andrews (mathematician)
              • Frank Pfenning
                • Hongwei Xi

Harvard

Hopcroft / Lefschetz

• • • • • • • • • • (Primary advisor: Ravi Sethi)

  • • • • • • • Johan Håstad

          • • • (Primary advisor: Nico Habermann)

          • (Secondary advisor: Gerald Sussman)

California Institute of Technology

Knuth

Hartmanis

• Eric Temple Bell
  • Morgan Ward
    • Robert P. Dilworth
      • Juris Hartmanis
      • Edward Reingold
      • Dexter Kozen
      • Neil Immerman
        • Allan Borodin
          • David G. Kirkpatrick
          • Ian Munro (computer scientist)

Floyd

Bob Floyd never received a PhD, although he worked closely with Donald Knuth on The Art of Computer Programming.

Ullman

Hilbert

• David Hilbert
  • Hugo Steinhouse
    • Mark Kac
      • Harry Kesten
        • Ed Granirer
          • Tony Lau
            • Maria Klawe
  • Herman Weyl
    • Saunders MacLane
      • Roger Conant Lyndon
        • Calvin Creston Elgot
      • Anil Nerode
        • Bob Soare
        • Richard Tenney
      • Micael Morley
        • Terry Millar
          • Mark Manasse
  • Kurt Schutte
    • Wolfgang Maass
  • Wilhelm Ackermann
  • Richard Courant
  • Haskell Curry

Aiken

• Howard Aiken
  • Gerrit Blaauw
    • Christian Vissers
      • Hendrik Brinksma
  • Fred Brooks
  • Anthony Oettinger
    • William Hines Bossert
      • Gerald J. Popek
        • John Heidemann
    • Sheila Greibach
      • Ronald Book
      • Michael Fischer
        • Mitchell Wand
        • Michael Hammer
          • Dennis McLeod
      • Jean Gallier
    • Richard Karp
      • Robert Keller (computer scientist)
        • Paul Hudak
          • Kai Li
      • Kellogg Booth
      • Ron Shamir
      • Rajeev Motwani
    • Eugene Lawler
      • David Shmoys
        • Philip N. Klein
          • Ramamurthy Ravi
        • Clifford Stein

Stanford

• George Forsythe
  • Ramon E. Moore
  • Cleve Moler
    • Jack Dongarra
    • Charles F. Van Loan
  • Bill McKeeman
    • Eric Hehner (Primary advisor: David Barkley Wortman)
  • Richard P. Brent (Primary advisor: Gene Howard Golub)
  • J. Alan George
    • Gaston Gonnet
      • Ricardo Baeza-Yates
  • Michael Alexander Malcolm
    • David Cheriton
      • Willy Zwaenepoel

Other

• Harold Stone (computer scientist)
  • Harold N. (Hal) Gabow
    • Matthias Stallmann
    • Manfred K. Warmuth
      • Yoav Freund

• Franco P. Preparata
  • Roberto Tamassia

• Georg Kreisel
  • Richard Statman

• Herbert Simon
  • Allen Newell
  • Robert Kendall Lindsay
    • Terrence Wendall Pratt
      • Daniel Paul Friedman
        • Matthias Felleisen
          • Shriram Krishnamurthi

• Charles Bachman

• Edwin Boring
  • Cooper Harold Langford
    • Arthur Burks
      • John Henry Holland
        • Edgar F. Codd
        • Stephen T. Hedetniemi (Primary advisor: Frank Harary)
        • Donald F. Stanat
          • Jon Bentley
            • Charles Leiserson (Primary advisor: Hsiang-Tsung Kung)
              • Guy Blelloch
              • Thomas H. Cormen
        • Gul Agha (Secondary advisor: Carl Hewitt)

• Robert "Bob" Allen Paige
  • Friedrich "Fritz" Henglein

• John Alan Robinson

See also

• List of computer scientists

External links

• SIGACT Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy (archived on 13 October 2007)
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Computer Engineering Academic Genealogy by Yuan Xie, Pennsylvania State University