<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Fun on Carol Hsu's Blog</title><link>https://carol-hsu.github.io/tags/fun/</link><description>Recent content in Fun on Carol Hsu's Blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><managingEditor>asymplone@gmail.com (Carol Hsu)</managingEditor><webMaster>asymplone@gmail.com (Carol Hsu)</webMaster><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:03:16 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://carol-hsu.github.io/tags/fun/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>My Academic Family Tree: 5 Degrees from Dijkstra</title><link>https://carol-hsu.github.io/post/misc/phd_tree/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>asymplone@gmail.com (Carol Hsu)</author><guid>https://carol-hsu.github.io/post/misc/phd_tree/</guid><description>&lt;p>Before finding out that I&amp;rsquo;m one of Dijkstra&amp;rsquo;s academic descendants,
the only computer science pioneers whose careers I had really dug into
were &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dongarra">Jack Dongarra&lt;/a>
and &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport">Leslie Lamport&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Let&amp;rsquo;s get to the point, here comes the DFS traversal result of my PhD tree (credit by Ada).&lt;/p>
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&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_B._Biezeno">Cornelis B. Biezeno&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>└ &lt;a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_van_Wijngaarden">Aad van Wijngaarden&lt;/a> (TU Delft)&lt;/p>
&lt;p>    └ &lt;a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra">Edsger W. Dijkstra&lt;/a> (UvA)&lt;/p>
&lt;p>        └ &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Habermann">A. Nico Habermann&lt;/a> (TU Eindhoven)&lt;/p>
&lt;p>            └ &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_K._Jones">Anita K. Jones&lt;/a> (CMU)&lt;/p>
&lt;p>                └ &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karsten_Schwan">Karsten Schwan&lt;/a> (CMU)&lt;/p>
&lt;p>                    └ &lt;a href="https://sites.cc.gatech.edu/home/ada/">Ada&lt;/a> (Georgia Tech)&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>