Academic Genealogy

• Raymond J. Mooney, Ph.D. 1988, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Thesis Title: "A General Explanation-Based Learning Mechanism and its Application to Narrative Understanding"
• My advisor: Gerald F. DeJong, Ph.D. 1979, Computer Science, Yale University, Thesis Title: "Skimming Stories in Real Time: An Experiment in Integrated Understanding"
• His advisor: Roger C. Schank, Ph.D. 1969, Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Thesis Title: "A Conceptual-Dependency Representation for a Computer-Oriented Semantics"
• His advisor: Jacob Mey , Ph.D. 1960, Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• His advisor: Louis Hjelmslev, M.A. Linguistics, 1923, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• His advisor: Holger Pedersen, PhD, Linguistics, 1897, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Thesis Title: "Aspiration in Irish".