Eric's Academic Lineage

Seems like a silly thing but I was curious one day so I traced it back as far as I could. Updates to this as I learn more. Individuals are listed in the form (Name / Place of PhD / Date of PhD). I traced it by hand back to 1954 but through the genius of the Theory of Computation Ph.D. Genealogy Database and The TCS Genealogy I was able to go back to 1856. Very nice.

Things get really interesting because Franz Neumann was influenced by Euler and had Kirchhoff was one of his students. Also, Carl Neumann was a friend of Ludwig Otto Hesse and studied Riemann surfaces.

Well now is 2003 and Benjamin Kuipers has sent me some updates that seem to lead this academic genealogy in a different course. It seems the correct list (after Neumann) is:

Carl Gottfried Neumann (Konigsberg, 1856).
Friedrich Julius Richelot (Konigsberg, 1831).
Karl Gustaf Jacob Jacobi (Berlin, 1825).
Enno Heeren Dirksen (Gottingen, 1820).
Johann Tobias Meyer d.J. (Gottingen, 1773).
Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner (Leipzig, 1739).
Christian August Hausen (Halle-Wittenberg, 1713).
Christian Andreas Siber (Halle-Wittenberg, 1682).

see: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kuipers/genealogy.html

This, which now seems it may be erroneous, is what I originally had from back in 1997 when I first made this list:

Anraham Gotthelf Kaestner / Göttingen University / 1719-1800?
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Johann Friedrich Pfaff / Göttingen University / 1788
Dissertation tite: Programma inaugurale in quo peculiarem differentialia investigandi rationem ex theoria functionum deducit
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss / Brunswick Collegium Carolinum / 1799
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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann / Göttingen University / 1849
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Carl Gottfried Neumann / University of Königsberg, Prussia / 1856
(Note: Carl was the son of Franz Neumann / Berlin / 1825)
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William Edward Story / Leipzig / 1875
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Solomon Lefschetz / Clark University, Worcester, MA / 1911
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Albert Tucker / Princeton / 1932
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Marvin Minsky / Princeton / 1954
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Berthold Horn / MIT / 1970
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Tomas Lozano-Perez / MIT / 1980
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John Canny / MIT / 1987
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Eric Paulos / UC Berkeley / 2001

Thanks to Judith Donath for passing on this information on the thesis from several of the above individuals.

AUTHOR :Horn, Berthold K. P. TITLE :Shape from shading; a method for obtaining theshape of a smooth opaque object from one view. PUBLISHED :1970. PHYSICAL DESC :197 leaves illus., diagrs., tables 30 cm. LIBRARY COLLECTION / CALL NUMBER STATUS / DUE DATE 1. ARCHIVES NOLOAN3 / THESIS Thesis E.E. 1970 Ph.D. In Library 2. BARKER STACKS / THESIS Thesis E.E. 1970 Ph.D. In Library

AUTHOR :Lozano-Perez, Tomas. TITLE :Spatial planning with polyhedral models / PUBLISHED :c1980. PHYSICAL DESC :174 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. LIBRARY COLLECTION / CALL NUMBER STATUS /DUE DATE 1. ARCHIVES NOLOAN3 / THESIS Thesis E.E. 1980 Ph.D. In Library

Eric Paulos

Last modified: Tue Jun 3 11:44:04 PDT 1997