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Which Turing Award winners have supervised the PhDs of other Turing Award winners?
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Problem
John McCarthy won the Turing Award in 1971 [1]. Two students whose PhD he supervised went on to win Turing Awards:
What other Turing Award winners supervised the PhD theses of other Turing Award winners?
- Raj Reddy (1994) [2]
- Barbara Liskov (2008) [3]
What other Turing Award winners supervised the PhD theses of other Turing Award winners?
Solution
Consulting with the Mathematics Genealogy Project, I was able to find the following thesis advisor relationships:
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John Hopcroft (1986) advised Alfred Aho (2020)
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Martin Hellman (2015) advised Whitfield Diffie (2015)
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Edmund Clarke (2007) advised E. Allen Emerson (2007)
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Robert Floyd (1978) advised Ron Rivest (2002) and Robert Tarjan (1986)
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Marvin Minsky (1969) advised Manuel Blum (1995) who subsequently advised Shafi Goldwasser (2012), Silvio Micali (2012), and Len Adleman (2002)
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Herb Simon (1975) advised Ed Feigenbaum (1994) who subsequently co-advised Niklaus Wirth (1984)
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John Hopcroft (1986) advised Alfred Aho (2020)
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Martin Hellman (2015) advised Whitfield Diffie (2015)
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Edmund Clarke (2007) advised E. Allen Emerson (2007)
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Robert Floyd (1978) advised Ron Rivest (2002) and Robert Tarjan (1986)
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Marvin Minsky (1969) advised Manuel Blum (1995) who subsequently advised Shafi Goldwasser (2012), Silvio Micali (2012), and Len Adleman (2002)
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Herb Simon (1975) advised Ed Feigenbaum (1994) who subsequently co-advised Niklaus Wirth (1984)
Context
StackExchange Computer Science Q#149891, answer score: 12
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