{"id":174714,"date":"2023-10-25T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-this-turing-award-winning-researcher-became-a-legendary-academic-advisor"},"modified":"2023-10-25T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T18:24:30","slug":"how-this-turing-award-winning-researcher-became-a-legendary-academic-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-this-turing-award-winning-researcher-became-a-legendary-academic-advisor","title":{"rendered":"How this Turing Award\u2013winning researcher became a legendary academic advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-this-turing-award-winning-researcher-became-a-legendary-academic-advisor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every academic field has its superstars. But a rare few achieve superstardom not just by demonstrating individual excellence but also by consistently producing future superstars. A notable example of such a legendary doctoral advisor is the Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler. A dissertation was once written about his mentorship, and he advised Richard Feynman, Kip Thorne, Hugh Everett (who proposed the \u201cmany worlds\u201d theory of quantum mechanics), and a host of others who could collectively staff a top-tier physics department. In ecology, there is Bob Paine, who discovered that certain \u201ckeystone species\u201d have an outsize impact on the environment and started a lineage of influential ecologists. And in journalism, there is John McPhee, who has taught generations of accomplished journalists at Princeton since 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Computer science has its own such figure: Manuel Blum, who won the 1995 Turing Award\u2014the Nobel Prize of computer science. Blum\u2019s m\u00e9tier is theoretical computer science, a field that often escapes the general public\u2019s radar. But you certainly have come across one of Blum\u2019s creations: the \u201cCompletely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,\u201d better known as the captcha\u2014a test designed to distinguish humans from bots online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every academic field has its superstars. But a rare few achieve superstardom not just by demonstrating individual excellence but also by consistently producing future superstars. A notable example of such a legendary doctoral advisor is the Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler. A dissertation was once written about his mentorship, and he advised Richard Feynman, Kip [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}