Ph.D. students 1970 - 2006: Where are they now?

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Stephen M. Chase 1970: used to be at IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY.
• Toshio Yasui 1972: President of Western Digital Japan, Tokyo
• Jean L. Pradels 1974: MIS manager for Banque Cortal, Paris
• Ronald L. Danielson 1975: prof U. of Santa Clara, CA
• Dave Eland 1975: prof, Oral Roberts U., Tulsa, OK
• Prabhaker Mateti 1976: prof Wright State U., Dayton, Ohio
• Hanna Kammerahl Kruczek 1977

ETH Zürich

• Dieter Profos 1977: ZHW
• Helmar Burkhart 1981: prof U. Basel
• Hirotsugu Sugaya 1981: Die Schweizerische Post
• Jean Weydert 1981: Rentenanstalt / SwissLife Zürich
• Bernhard Plattner 1983: prof ETH
• Jan Stelovsky 1983: Professor U. of Hawaii
• Giordano Beretta 1984: Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA
• Klaus Hinrichs 1985: prof U. Münster, D
• Andrea Ventura 1985: Innovationsberatung
• Michael Clemens 1985: UBS, Zürich
• Beat Brüderlin 1986: prof Technische U. Ilmenau, D
• Hans Hinterberger 1987: prof. ETH Zurich
• Anders Kierulf 1990: retired from Microsoft, working on a Go-playing program.
  Smart Game Board: a Workbench for Game-Playing Programs, with Go and Othello as Case Studies. PhD thesis Nr. 9135, ETH Zurich 1990
• Peter Schorn 1991: UBS, Zürich
  Robust Algorithms in a Program Library for Geometric Computation. Ph.D. thesis No. 9519, ETH Zurich 1991.
• Ralph Gasser 1995: Google
  Harnessing Computational Resources for Efficient Exhaustive Search. Ph.D. thesis No. 10927, ETH Zurich 1995.
• Martin Müller 1995: prof U. Alberta, Edmonton
  Computer Go as a Sum of Local Games: An Application of Combinatorial Game Theory. Ph.D. thesis No. 11006, ETH Zurich 1995.
• Michele De Lorenzi 1995: Swiss Technology Consulting Group AG
  Extending a library for geometric computation to provide network services: a case study. Ph.D. thesis No. 11267, ETH Zurich 1995.
• Adrian Brüngger 1997: Novartis Basel
  Solving Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Parallel: Two Case Studies. Ph.D. thesis No. 12358, ETH Zurich 1997.
• Ambros Marzetta 1998: AWK Engr. Zürich
  ZRAM: A Library of Parallel Search Algorithms and Its Use in Enumeration and Combinatorial Optimization. PhD thesis Nr. 12699, ETH Zurich 1998
• Matthias Müller 1999: ETH Zürich
  The Structure of Dense Polymer Systems: Geometry, Algorithms, Software. PhD thesis Nr. 13096, ETH Zurich 1999
• Nora Sleumer 2000: LIFEWARE SA, Lugano-Manno
  Hyperplane Arrangements: Construction, Visualization and Applications. PhD thesis Nr. 13502, ETH Zurich 2000
• Fabian Mäser 2001: Ergon Informatik AG, Zürich
  Divide and conquer in game tree search : algorithms, software and case studies PhD thesis No. 14149, ETH Zurich 2001.
• Thomas Lincke 2002:
  Exploring the computational limits of large exhaustive search problems PhD thesis No. 14701, ETH Zurich 2002
• Raimond Reichert 2003: Swisscom
  Theory of computation as a vehicle for teaching fundamental concepts of computer science PhD thesis No. 15035, ETH Zurich 2003
• Vincent Tscherter 2004:
  Exorciser - Automated generation and grading of exercises in an introductory course on the Theory of Computation PhD thesis No. 15654, ETH Zurich 2004
• Markus Braendle 2006: ABB Corporate Research
  GraphBench: Exploring the Limits of Complexity with Educational Software, PhD thesis No. 16392, ETH Zurich 2006