Tree of Bruce Buchanan's students for the Computer History Exhibits

Much information was provided by Haym Hirsch, but the lower levels of this tree are still quite incomplete. We'd like to add current locations and email. Send updates by email to: gio@cs.stanford.edu (Gio Wiederhold).

Professor Bruce Buchanan (at Stanford 1970-1985?)

Professor Buchanan, PhD 1967, Michigan State Univ. with Gerald Massey, and an interesting academic genealogy.
At Stanford 1970-1985?; left for Univ. of Pittsburgh, retired 2002. Many students in the McCarthy

  • 1979 Reid Smith [EE], with Feigenbaum (Schlumberger)
  • 1979 Tom Mitchell (EE) (Rutgers, CMU <Tom.Mitchell at cmu.edu>)
      Professor Mitchell, CMU
    1. 1991 Oren Etzioni (Univ. of Washington )
        Professor Etzioni, Univ. of Washington:
      1. Kethh Golden ()
      2. Neal Lesh ()
      3. Richard Segal ()
      4. Erik Selberg ()
      5. Oren Zamir ()
    2. 2001 Sean Slattery (Applied Psychology Research in London <Sean.Slattery at aprsmartlogik.com>)
    3. 2002
  • 1979 William John Clancey [Bill], co-advisor John Brown (Inst. for Learning)
  • 1980 Mark Stefik (PARC <stefik at cs>)
  • 1980 William C Van Melle [Bill, KSL] ()
  • 1984 Greg Cooper, with Feigenbaum [MIS] (Univ.of Pittsburgh <gfc at cbmi.upmc.edu>)
    at University of Michigan
  • 1984? Eric Schoen
  • 1985 Thomas Glen Dietterich, with Feigenbaum (<tgd at cs.orst.edu>)
      Professor Dietterich, Orgegon State
    1. 11 or more, see AI Genealogyat UT Austin.
    • (Oregon State)
  • 1987 David Wilkins [PhD from Un. of Michigan] (Univ. of Illinois, <http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/faculty/wilkins.html>)
      Professor Wilkins, Univ. of Illinois, based on < http://www-kbs.ai.uiuc.edu/web/kbs/alumni.htm > 27 Aug 2001 and Carl Kadie:
    1. 1991 Sheldon Nicholl ( < >)
    2. 1992 Lucja M. Iwanska (LxLinks <lucja at lxlinks.com>)
    3. 1993 Dale Russel ( < >)
    4. 1993 Young-Tack Park ( < >)
    5. 1993 Ziad Najem ( < >)
    6. 1995 Yong Ma ( < >)
    7. 1995 Carl Kadie (Microsoft Research <carlk at microsoft.com>)
    8. 1999 Ole Mengshoel ( < >)
    9. 1999 Vadim Bulitko (Univ. of Alberta <http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~bulitko/profile/>>
  • 1988 Chris Tong ( <tong at enchantedwebsites.com> )
      Professor Tong, Rutgers Univ.
    1. 1992 Wes Braudaway (SAIC)
    2. 1995 Kerstin Voigt (Cal. State Univ. San Bernadino)
    3. 1996 Sunil Mohan (NASA Ames)
  • 1989 Russ Altman [MIS], co-advisor Oleg Jardetzky (Stanford Univ. <russ.altman at stanford.edu>)
      Professor Altman, Stanford Genetics, Medicine, and CS:
    1. 1997 Walter Sujansky [MIS] (Oceania; <sujansky at smi.stanford.edu>)
    2. 1999 Wanda Pratt [MIS] advisor Larry Fagan (Un.of Washington <wpratt at U.washington.edu>)
        Prof. Pratt Univ.of Washington
      1. 2003 Madhu Reddy (Univ. Missouri, Rolla)
      2. 2003 Catherine Blake (Umiv.of North Carolina)
    3. 1999 Liping Wei [MIS] (Nexus Genomics and Stanford)
    4. 2000 Cheng Che Chen, EE, joint with John Hennessy ()
    5. 2001 Ramon Feliciano [MIS] (InGenuity)
    6. 2002 Jonathan Dugan (SRI)
    7. 2002 Soumya Raychaudhuri, BMI ()
    8. 2003 Jeffrey Chang (Duke)
    9. 2003 Olga Troyanskaya (Princeton)
  • 1989 Peter Karp, with Feigenbaum (<pkarp at Ai.sri.com>)
  • 1989 Haym Hirsh, with (Rutgers Un., <hirsh at cs.rutgers.edu>
      • Professor Hirsh, Rutgers Univ.<www.cs.rutgers.edu/~hirsh/>>
    1. 1991 David Loewenstern (Brand Dialogue)
    2. 1993 David Lubinsky (Univ. of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
    3. 1993 Lorien Pratt, LLC (<http://www.lorienpratt.com, lorien at lorienpratt.com >)
    4. 1995 Steve Norton (PHZ Capital Partners, MA)
    5. 1997 Vipul Kashyap (Telcordia, NJ)
    6. 1998 Daniel Kudenko (Univ. of York, U.K.)
    7. 1998 Khaled Rasheed (Univ. of Georgia)
    8. 2001 Arunava Banerjee (Univ. of Rochester)
    Buchanan students at Pittsburgh
  • Foster Provost, with
  • John Aronis, with
  • Li-Min Fu
    •  Up one level to Old-timers
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