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From: "Michael Batty" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 04/04/07 15:51
Subject: Re: Academic 'Family Tree'
I cannot resist it: a prize of our CASA book to anyone who can figure
out the following riddle.
Show us the ultimate recursion - that "The tree must be composed of
axial lines in such a way that a space syntax graph of the tree is
the same as the original tree itself "
Come on Rui !
Happy Easter
Mike
>:-}
At 15:30 04/04/2007, Ruth Conroy Dalton wrote:
>For the purposes of a paper I am writing and, mostly, purely for
>reasons of interest, I am trying to put together the 'academic
>family tree' for space syntax. Many other fields have done this -
>the most detailed example is the mathematical one, which can be
>found at http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
>
>Barsically, for those who don't know, one's academic 'parent' is
>your doctoral supervisor (PhD, I'm afraid, masters do not count) and
>your own students, upon successful completion, are your 'children'.
>So far I have been putting together the primary UCL branches, but
>I'd now like to hear from anyone who has a PhD which mostly uses
>space syntax methods (please use sensible judgement here), equally,
>if you have supervised such PhDs, a list of your completed students.
>Once I have put this together, I will place the results online, so
>that it can be searchable.
>
>So - if you ever wanted to know your parents, nephews, or second
>cousins twice removed, then this is how to find out!
>
>Ideally I'd like
>
>Name:
>Year of PhD thesis:
>Title of thesis:
>Supervisor:
>
>(But it's the name and supervisor that are most important)
>
>(In the American system, this would be the chair of your committee
>or in the UK system your primary supervisor).
>
>For those interested,
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_genealogy
>
>There are some good links from the Wikipedia entry. I particularly
>like the neurology one.
>
>Just think - if we eventually have the full network, we could
>identify the most 'integrated' individuals!
>
>By the way, my hunch is that we've made it to four generation
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