{"id":1467,"date":"2011-06-01T23:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2011-06-01T23:45:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:45:52","slug":"hello-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/06\/01\/hello-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Cousin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My father has spent time over the last decade collecting pictures and documents related to our family tree.\u00a0 I greatly appreciate him doing this, and the result is fascinating.\u00a0 There is no one really famous in my tree, unless you are a follower of (Canadian) prairie socialism, since I think J.S. Woodsworth<\/a> is in there, by marriage into the Staples family, my father having Staples as a middle name.\u00a0 But the pictures of past generations are evocative and the stories of families moving from Europe to rural Canada are inspirational.\u00a0 The bravery in pulling up roots in a world when communication times are measured in weeks or months is unbelievable.\u00a0 It makes me realize how easy I have had it, and how my own choices are so relatively costless either way.<\/p>\n

I addition to real ancestry, there is also academic ancestry, tracing descendents through the academic advisement.\u00a0 Within operations research (and mathematics more generally), we have a central collection point for academic ancestry:\u00a0 the Mathematics Genealogy Project<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This site has collected the the advisor\/advisee relationships for more than 150,000 mathematicians, including many in operations research.\u00a0 This site is certainly not new, dating back to 1999 or so<\/del><\/a> 1997, and I have known about it practically since the start.\u00a0 It is only now, however, that I sent in the information on my own advisors (Don Ratliff and John Bartholdi) and my seven advisees.\u00a0 It will take a bit of time to update the site.\u00a0 In the world of Web 2.+, it is strange to have such a delay, but it appears there is still a bit of hand editing.\u00a0 Soon my tiny part of the tree will be accurate.<\/p>\n

\"\"For finding my ancestry, the first part is easy:\u00a0 John Bartholdi was a student of Don Ratliff (starting me on a non-branching family tree), and Don was the student of Manny Bellmore, who also advised now-billionaire John Malone<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Bellmore was the student of Frederick (Tom) Sparrow, a long time faculty member at Purdue.\u00a0 Looking at Tom’s descendents, I see he was the advisor to Stella Dafermos who advised … fellow OR-blogger, and network guru, Anna Nagurney<\/a>!\u00a0 In fact, the picture of Dr. Sparrow comes from Anna’s Virtual Center for Supernetworks<\/a>. So it turns out that Anna is my … umm… first cousin once removed?\u00a0 Anyway, we are definitely related, as you can tell by the fact that she writes very well, and I … type things into my blog (generally with too many parentheses and exclamation points!).<\/p>\n

I’m continuing to work my way back.\u00a0 It seems that most people end up back at Gauss, but we’ll see where I end up.\u00a0 I think I would be more delighted to see that most of operations research blogORsphere comes from close academic relatives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My father has spent time over the last decade collecting pictures and documents related to our family tree.\u00a0 I greatly appreciate him doing this, and the result is fascinating.\u00a0 There is no one really famous in my tree, unless you are a follower of (Canadian) prairie socialism, since I think J.S. Woodsworth is in there, … Continue reading “Hello Cousin!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-web","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}