Oldtimers

Notes and pictures taken while planning the Stanford Computer History Exhibits

The Living Legends [Ed Feigenbaum's term]

A meeting was held at the home of Prof. Feigenbaum on 23 March 1997 to collect information about the early days of the department.

A display documenting the establishment of the Stanford Computer Science Department is being planned for the opening of the museum section in the Gates building for September 1997. Early faculty present were (Stanford dates will be further validated). Also their students who graduated before 1975 will be shown here. Full trees are now in the list.

• Ed Feigenbaum (professor 1964 - .) Student Tree.
Early students at Stanford (incomplete):
1. 1969 Don Waterman - coavisor McCarthy (North Carolina State Univ.)
2. 1966 Raj Reddy -- coadvisor with John McCarthy (CMU)
3. 1973 1969? Cordell Green? (Stanford; Kestrel and Reasoning Systems)
4. 1975 Ted Shortliffe (Stanford Univ.; Columbia Univ.)
• Bob Floyd (professor 1968 - .) Student Tree.
  Early students at Stanford
  1. 1971 Robert Tarjan (1972 Cornell, 1973 UC Berkeley, 1974 Stanford, 1980 AT&T Bell Labs, 1985 Princeton)
  2. David Plaistad
  3. 1974 Ronald L. Rivest (MIT)
• Gene Golub (professor 1962 - .) Student Tree.
  Early students
  1. 1968 Richard Bartels (Waterlloo)
  2. 1969 Michael Jenkins (NIAL)
  3. 1969 Lyle Smith (Lucent)
  4. 1970 George Ramos (AOL)
  5. 1971 Richard Brent -- coadvisor George Forsythe (ANU, 1998 Oxford)
  6. 1972 Michael Saunders (Stanford MS and IE ) picture)
  7. 1974 John Palmer ()
  8. 1975 Richard Underwood (deceased)
• Jack Herriot (professor 1964 - .) Student Tree.
  Students of Jack Herriot, all joint with George Forsythe
  1. 1968 Paul L. Richman (Bell Labs, Chicago)
  2. 1972 David Stoutemyer (Univ. of Hawaii)
  3. 1973 Michael Malcolm (Univ. of Waterloo)
• Don Knuth (professor 1969 - .) Student Tree.
  Early students:
  1. 1972 Vaughan Ronald Pratt (MIT, 1980 Stanford Univ.)
  2. 1972 Clark Allan Crane ()
  3. 1972 Isu Fang ()
  4. 1972 Michael Lawrence Fredman (UCSD, Rutgers Univ.)
  5. 1974 Richard Lee Sites (DEC)
  6. 1975 Gary Don Knott (NIH)
  7. 1975 Edwin Hallowell Satterthwaite, Jr. -- with Niklaus Wirth
  8. 1975 Robert Sedgewick (Brown, Princeton)
• John McCarthy (professor 1953-1955, 1962 -) Student Tree.
  Early students, incomplete
  1. Sep. 1966 Raj Reddy (CMU)
  2. Mar. 1967 Jim Painter (Bay Area?)
  3. 1966 Bill McKeeman, co-advisor with Niklaus Wirth (UCSC)
  4. Dec. 1967 Monte Callero ( )
  5. July 1968 Donald Kaplan ( )
  6. Aug. 1968 Barbara Huberman [Liskov] (MIT)
  7. Dec. 1968 Donald Waterman -- with Ed Feigenbaum ( UNC)
  8. Mar. 1969 Pierre Vicens -- with Raj Reddy? ()
  9. Aug. 1970 Gilbert Falk ( )
  10. May 1971 Lynn Quam ( )
  11. Aug. 1971 Rodney Schmidt (>
  12. Aug. 1972 Lockwood Morris ( )
  13. Oct. 1972 Ruzena Bajcsy [was Bajcsyova] (UPenn, NSF, UC Berkeley)
  14. Sep. 1974 Bruce Baumgart ( <>)
  15. Dec. 1974 Malcolm Newey - with Feldman (Australian National Univ.)
• Bill Miller (professor 1964 -) Student Tree.
  Early Stanford students, incomplete
  1. 1968 Alan Shaw (U Washington )
  2. 1969 Ira Pohl (UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz)
  3. 1970 Lance Hoffman (UC Berkeley; George Washington Univ., D.C.
  4. 1971 James George (Los Alamos Nat.Lab.).
  5. 1971 Wayne Wilner, co adviser Don Knuth ( Burroughs).
  6. Ed D. Nelson, coadvisor Bill McKeeman (LANL)
  7. Duane Adams (Dean of Research, CMU).
  8. 1972 Robert Russell (U. of New Hampshire).
  9. Bary Pollack (Sierra Nevada Univ)
  10. Steve Levine (AT&T)
  11. 1972 Victor Lesser (U. Mass)
  12. John V. Levy ( < >).
• Gio Wiederhold (lecturer 1965 - 1975, prof. 1976 - ...) Student Tree.

• George Forsythe (1941-1942, 1957-1972) Student Tree compiled for the Exhibit.
• Ed McCluskey (EE prof. 1967-.) Student Tree compiled for the Exhibit.
  came from Princeton
• Richard (Dick) W.? Watson (professor 1964-1967)
  1. Shell Oil
  2. Lawrence Livermore ?
• Klaus Wirth (professor 1967-1970) Student Tree.
  1. Univ. Zurich, soon after ETH
  students:
  • started Susan Graham: UC Berkeley, but left and Susan got her PhD with David Gries (see below) [correction 17 April 2005]
  • Ed Satterwaite: DEC SERC; General Magic; DEC SERC.
• 1966-1969 David Gries: Cornell
  • Susan Graham: UC Berkeley, many students [correction 17 April 2005]

Also attending the meeting were Randy Davis, Sally Herriott, Pat Miller, Penny Nii, Voy Wiederhold, and Andy Kacsmar, who recorded the discussions on tape.

We have Pictures here of

1. The group: Herriot, Wiederhold, McCarthy, Knuth, Floyd, Feigenbaum
2. McCarthy, Feigenbaum
3. Floyd, Golub, Miller, and Herriot
4. Herriot, Wiederhold, Knuth
5. Knuth, McCarthy, Feigenbaum, Sally Herriot
6. Wiederhold, Knuth, McCarthy
7. Floyd, Golub. Miller
8. Herriot, Wiederhold, Knuth
9. McCarthy, Davis, Feigenbaum
10. Kacsmar, Nii
11. Davis, Golub, McCarthy, Herriot
12. Feigenbaum, Miller
13. Pat and Bill Miller, Nii
14. Knuth, Herriot, Feigenbaum, Golub
15. Floyd, Golub, Miller, and Herriot