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The following is an academic genealogy of computer scientists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors.
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. -
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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 -
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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. Ullman Hilbert Aiken Stanford Other See also Further reading External links
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