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Bobby Forrester Caviness

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University 1968

Dissertation: On Canonical Forms and Simplification

Advisor: Alan Jay Perlis

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Harvey Epstein	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1975
Michael Rothstein	University of Wisconsin-Madison	1976
Myra Jean Prelle	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1981
Erich Kaltofen	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	1982	10
Guy Cherry	University of Delaware	1983

According to our current on-line database, Bobby Caviness has 5 students and 15 descendants.
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