Publications on the TCS Genealogy
Publications on the TCS Genealogy
Some print publications about the
the SIGACT
Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy
are available.
Original Paper (1984)
D. S. Johnson,
``The Genealogy of Theoretical Computer Science''.
SIGACT News,
16(2):36-44, 1984.
Reprinted in Bulletin of the EATCS, (25):198-211, 1985.
Preliminary Report (1995)
I. Parberry
and D. S. Johnson,
``The SIGACT Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy: Preliminary Report''.
Proceedings of
DAGS 95,
``Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway'',
James Ford, Fillia Makedon, and Samual Rebelsky (Eds.),
pp. 197-205,
Birkhaüser,
Boston, May 21-June 2, 1995.
Available in
compressed postscript
format.
Abstract
The SIGACT Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy,
which lists information on earned doctoral degrees
of theoretical computer scientists,
is currently in the process of being published on
the World-Wide Web.
We describe the document, its applications, and some
simple statistics.