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My Doctoral Students

  • Sartaj Sahni, 1973, Exact and approximate solutions to the knapsack problem, presently professor of computer science at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
  • Alessandro Zorat, 1979, A divide-and-conquer machine, presently Professor at the Istituto Per La Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, 38050 povo, Trento Italy
  • M. al-Suwaiyel, 1979, An investigation of the trie data structure, presently President, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia.
  • Thomas Mowbray, 1983, Language Features for a Static Data Flow Environment. Working in Industry.
  • Ron Williamson, 1984, SODOS: A Software Documentation Support Environment
  • Alfons Kemper, 1984, Programming Language Constructs for Data Intensive Application Development presently a professor at University of Karlsruhe, West Germany.
  • Marco Papa, 1988, Bit Blitting and Polygon Clipping: Analysis and Experiences presently working at Los Angeles Superior Court.
  • Lung-Chun Liu, 1988 Software Project Management, currently Senior Director, Verplex Systems, Inc. in Milpitas, CA.
  • Yasuhiro Sugiyama, 1990, Object Process Modeling, June 1990, presently working as a Professor at Nihon University
  • Alice Muntz, 1990, The Design of Real-time Software, June 1990, presently working in industry at GlobeTel Communications
  • Christopher Rouff, 1991, Specification and Rapid Prototyping of User Interfaces, June 1991, Currently working at SAIC
  • June Sup Lee, 1997, The design of middleware, currently working in Korea
  • Allen Nikora, May, 1998, Software system defect prediction from development process and product characteristics, currently working for Jet Propulsion Systems, JPL, Pasadena, CA
  • Yanbo Ru, Automatic Generation of the Logical Structure of Web Pages, Dec. 2006, Currently working in industry in Los Angeles
  • Jeffrey Miller, 2007, RealTime Processing of Traffic Data, May, 2007, currently an Associate Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Southern California
  • Shahzad Tiwana, 2009, The Ranking and Clustering of Patent Documents, Fall, 2009, Assistant Professor, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

My Doctoral Ancestors

  • George E. Collins, January 10, 1928 -
  • John Barkley Rosser, December 6, 1907 - September 5, 1989
  • Alonzo Church, June 14, 1903 - August 11, 1995
  • Oswald Veblen, June 24, 1880 - August 10, 1960
  • E. H. Moore, January 26, 1862 - December 30, 1932
  • H. A. Newton, 19 March 1830 - 12 August 1896
  • Michel Chasles, 15 November 1793 - 18 December 1880