Academic Genealogy
(What 17th Century Mathematicians have to
do with COCOMO)
Dr. Ricardo Valerdi
MIT
Cedalion standing on the shoulders of
Orion from Blind Orion Searching for the
Rising Sun by Nicolas Poussin (1658)
In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton famously
remarked in a letter to his rival
Robert Hooke (discussing
experiments in optics):
"What Descartes did was a good
step. You have added much several
ways, and especially in taking the
colours of thin plates into
philosophical consideration. If I
have seen a little further it is by
standing on the shoulders of
Giants."
1666-present
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> 30 descendants (1993-present)
Barry Boehm, UCLA (1964)
Elliott Ward Cheney, Jr., University of Kansas (1957)
Robert Schatten, Columbia University (1943)
Francis Joseph Murray, Columbia University (1936)
Bernard Osgood Koopman, Harvard University (1926)
George David Birkhoff, University of Chicago (1907)
Eliakim Hastings Moore, Yale University (1885)
Hubert Anson Newton, Yale University (1850)
Michel Chasles, École Polytechnique (1814)
Simeon Denis Poisson, École Polytechnique (1800)
Joseph Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace
Leonhard Euler, Universität Basel (1726)
Johann Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1694)
Jacob Bernoulli, Universität Basel (1676)
Nicolas Malebranche, T (1672)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Universität Altdorf (1666)
Source: http://www.genealogy.ams.org/
Sue Koolmanojwong
Jared Fortune
(2010)
(2009)
The Aerospace
Corporation
Ali Afzal Malik
(2010)
DeWitt T. Latiner
(2008)
U.S. Air Force
Vu Nguyen
(2010)
JoAnn Lane
(2009)
USC
(2008)
The Aerospace
Corporation
LiGuo Huang
(2006)
Southern Methodist
University
Dan Wu
(2007)
Microsoft
Monvorath Phongpaibul
(2007)
IBM
Ricardo Valerdi
(2005)
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
Chris Abts
(2004)
Texas A&M, Booze Allen
Ye Yang
(2006)
Institute of Software
Chinese Academy
of Sciences
Alexander Lam
Mohammed Al-Said
(2003)
Saudi Aramco
Hoh Peter In
Jesal Bhuta
(2007)
Infosys
Yue Chen
Zhihao Scott Chen
(2007)
Cisco
(2006)
Motorola
Hasan Kitapci
(2007)
Sunita Chulani
(1999)
IBM Research, Cisco Jongmoon Baik
(2000)
Korea Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology
Apurva Jain
(2007)
Software Metrics
(1998)
Texas A&M, Korea University
Keun Lee
Alexander Egyed
Allen Peter Nikora
(1998)
NASA, JPL
Ming June Lee
(1996)
Ahmed Abd-el-Shafy
Abd-Allah
(1998)
Teknowledge Corp.
Johannes Kepler University
(1996)
Cristina Gacek
(2006)
Samsung
(1998)
IESE, U. Newcastle
Prasanta Bose
Brad Clark
(1997)
Software Metrics
Yimin Bao
(1996)
Ray Madachy
(1993)
Texas Instruments, USC,
George Mason, Lockheed Martin
(1994)
USC, Naval Postgraduate
School
November 3, 2010
Presented to Barry on the celebration of the
25th COCOMO Forum at the University of Southern
California by his students