Academic Lineage
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As a Ph.D. student I am just one in a long chain of
researchers before me. Being a fan of history, I thought that
it would be interesting to try and track back all my {great}* grand
advisors through time. It was doubly interesting to me because
my field (computer science) is a very young one. I wanted to know
which of the many fields spawned my line of computer scientists. Here are
the results (most recent graduates first).
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Brad Calder
Graduated 1995 University of Colorado at Boulder
Brad Calder (my advisor) is currently a tenured professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His
research interests are in computer architecture
and compiler optimization, including but not limited to: customized
processors, simulation methodology, prefetching, critical path analysis,
dynamic compilation, predicated execution, value-based optimization, and
the performance of mobile code.
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Dirk Grunwald
Graduated 1989 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dirk Grunwald is currently a tenured professor at the University of
Colorado at Bolder doing research on the interaction of compilers, runtime
systems and architectures for sequential and parallel architecture. His
research program covers the design and implementation of runtime systems
for parallel programs, including "data parallel" and threaded applications
as well as varied aspects of computer architecture, including instruction
processing and memory prefetching.
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Daniel A. Reed
Graduated 1983 Purdue
Daniel A. Reed is currently Professor and Head of the Department of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In
addition, he holds a joint appointment as a Senior Research Scientist with
the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He is the
author of research papers and monographs on algorithms, architectures, and
performance evaluation techniques for high-performance computing and
virtual environments. His Pablo research group has developed tools and
techniques for characterizing parallel systems and applications, as well
as supporting parallel I/O systems. His recent work in the Scalable I/O
Initiative has led to the forthcoming book Scalable Input/Output:
Achieving System Balance, to be published by MIT Press.
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Herb D. Schwetman
Graduated 1970 UT Austin
Herb Schwetman is founder and president of Mesquite Software, Inc. Prior
to founding Mesquite Software in 1994, he was a Senior Member of the
Technical Staff at MCC from 1984 until 1994. He has been an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of
Texas at Austin since 1984. From 1972 until 1984, he was a Professor of
Computer Sciences at Purdue University. Dr. Schwetman received his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin in 1970. He has
been involved in research into system modeling and simulation as applied
to computer systems since 1968.
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J. C. Browne, UT Austin
Graduated 1960 UT Austin
Dr. Browne joined the physics and computer sciences faculty in 1968. His
teaching and research interests include parallel architectures and
parallel programming, performance measurement and analysis, operating
systems, software engineering and VLSI synthesis. His early research
career in computational physics adds familiarity with large scale
computational problems. He is currently focused on integration of Computer
Science with application discipline expertise.
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Fredrick A. Matsen (1913)
Graduated 1940 Princeton
Born 1913, Matsen's first research was on the theory of
liquids, and his first quantum chemistry research was "The
Molecular Orbital Theory of the Spectra of Monosubstituted
Benzenes". He was an early adopter of computing in the
sciences, first doing quantum chemistry calculations on an card
programmed IBM 650. His latter work includes algebraic quantum
chemistry and spin-free quantum chemistry. Read
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Henry Eyring (1901-1981)
Graduated 1927 Berkeley
Henry Eyring was born in Colonia Juarez, Mexico in 1901. He is
most well known for his work in Physical Chemistry and chemical
kinetics, but has scientific interests far beyond that. He
applied the idea of calculation of the potential energy
surfaces to problems in surface catalysis. The constant
thinking in terms of these surfaces led in due course to what
is probably Eyring's most important scientific contribution:
the development of the notion of the activated complex as an
entity controlling the rates of chemical reactions with a
definite mean lifetime and capable of treatment in rigorous
thermodynamic and statistical mechanical terms. As is well
known the paper presenting this idea was first rejected when
submitted to the Journal of Chemical Physics, but the editor
was persuaded to change his mind and the paper appeared in
1935. After a long stay at Princeton, he latter moved to Utah
to start their first graduate program, and served as Dean for
many years.
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George Gibson (1884-1959)
Graduated 1911 University of Breslau
Dr. Gibson, born in Edinburgh Scotland 1884, performed much of
his early research at Berkeley in spectroscopy and low
temperature calorimetry. Throughout his distinguished career,
he had an interest in the relationship between radiation and
chemistry. Publications in 1927 show his early interest in the
ionizing effects of alpha particles upon various gases and had
an early appreciation of the relationship between quantum
statistics, spectra, and chemistry. Well known students
include Latimer, Parks, Giaque, Phipps, Eyring, Rice, and
Seaborg, two of which have received Nobel Prizes.
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Otto R. Lummer (1860-1925)
Graduated ~1887 University of Berlin
The German born Lummer became professor at the
University of Breslau in 1905. In 1889 he designed, with Eugene
Brodhum, a photometer with an arrangement of prisms, which was
an improved version of the grease-spot photometer invented by
Robert Bunsen. Lummer's research was chiefly on radiation
energy and temperature. Working with Wilhelm Wien he achieved
in practice the black-body radiator, which had been conceived
as a theoretical abstraction in the study of radiant heat. In
1899 he did further work with Ernst Pringsheim on the
distribution of energy in black-body radiation - work that
eventually led to Max Planck's formulation of the quantum
theory. Lummer also built, with Leon Arons, a mercury vapor
lamp in 1892.
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Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894)
Graduated 1843 Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm Institute of Medicine and Surgery in Berlin
Born in Potsdam, Germany, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Helmholtz was not trained to be a professor through
traditional means but was rather trained as a medical doctor,
on a grant from the Prussian Army. Although later in life he
accepted a position as the chair of a new physics institute in
Berlin. Helmholtz work included important results in such
diverse fields as optics, thermodynamics (as the inventor of
the conservation of energy), topology, vision, and acoustics.
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