Tree of Niklaus Wirth students for the Computer History Exhibits

We'd like to add students, their current locations and email. Send updates by email to: gio@cs.stanford.edu (Gio Wiederhold). Updated Auygust 2002.

Professor Niklaus Emil Wirth (at Stanford 1963-1967, left for Univ.of Zurich, now at the ETH Zurich, emeritus 1999)

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PhD 1963 UC Berkeley, advisor Prof. Harry Huskey, Committee included Professor Ed Feigenbaum.

    Students at Stanford: year-of-PhD Name (last known location, email)
  1. Helmut Weber?
  2. 1966 Bill McKeeman, co-advised by John McCarthy (Stanford, Toronto, UC Santa Cruz, Xerox PARC, 1981 Wang Institute, 1987 Harvard, 1988 DEC/Compaq, 1999 Mathworks and Dartmouth Univ. <McKeeman@mathworks.com>)
      Professor McKeeman, Stanford 1966-1968, Toronto 1971-1972, UC Santa Cruz 1968-1979, Wang Institute 1981-1987, Dartmouth Univ. 1999-
    1. 1970 Paul Abrams? (<>)
    2. 1973 Dave Wortman, Co-advised by Harold Stone (Univ. of Toronto < >).
        3. Prof.Wortman Univ. of Toronto
      1. 1974 Eric C.R.Hehner (Univ. of Toronto <hehner at cs.utoronto.ca >).
          Prof. Hehner Univ. of Toronto
        1. 1982 Christian Lengauer ( < >)
        2. 1984 Hugh L. Redelmeier ( < >)
        3. 1986 Eugene L. Fiume ( < >)
        4. 1987 Alan Wagner( < >)
        5. 1990 Andrew Malton ( < >)
        6. 1992 John Hogg ( < >)
        7. 1993 Theodore S. Norvell ( < >)
        8. 1997 Richard F. Paige( < >)
        9. 2003 Mark Pichora ( < >)
        10. 2006 Ioannis Kassios ( < >)
      2. others?
  3. ? Ed D. Nelson, co-advisor Bill Miller (LANL <jeg@lanl.gov>).
  4. 1969 Jim Horning? (Univ Toronto, Xerox PARC, DEC, Intertrust, Network Associates <jim_horning@nai.com>)
      Professor Horning, Univ. of Toronto 1969-1977:
    1. ? Michael Wharton (< >)
    2. ? Laurence Weissman(< >)
    3. ? James Donahue ( < >)
    4. 1975 John D. Gannon(UMd < >)
        Professor Gannon, University of Maryland, died 1999
      1. 1992 Joanne Marie Atlee (Waterloo < >)
          Professor Attlee, University of Waterloo
        1. 2002 David Mason (< >)
    5. 1975 John Guttag (MIT <guttag@larch.lcs.mit.edu>)
  5. ? Phil Levy, coadvisor Bill Miller (<plevy@primenet.com>)
  6. 1971 Susan Graham (initially only, see Prof. Gries)
  7. 1975 Edwin Hallowell Satterthwaite, Jr., with Don Knuth (Xerox PARC; DEC SERC; General Magic; DEC SERC; Broadcom).
  8. At ETH Zurich
    1974? Kathleen Jensen (DEC)
  9. 1978 Peter Schulthess, with Kurt Bauknecht (Univ. Augsburg <>)
      Prof. Schulthess, Univ. Augsburg
    1. 1987 Konrad Froitzheim
    2. 1987 Ulrich Hertrampf
  10. 1991? HansPeter Moessenboeck
  11. Jurg Gutknecht (ETH)
      Prof. Guttag ETH Zurich
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