Academic genealogy of computer scientists

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

Smaller text indicates advisors or advisees specialized in a field unrelated to computer science.

Europe

Denmark

Finland

France

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

Germany

Italy

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.

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.

Norway

Poland

Sweden

United Kingdom

Edinburgh

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

Cambridge

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

Robin Milner never did a Ph.D.

Oxford

Christopher Strachey was the first Professor of Computation at Oxford.

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

Warwick

North America

Church

Harvard

Hopcroft / Lefschetz

California Institute of Technology

Knuth

Hartmanis

Floyd

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

Hilbert

Aiken

Stanford

Other

See also

References

Further reading

External links

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