Jeff Westbrook
Jeff Westbrook is a
Education and pre-TV
Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a successful
Ph.D. in 1989 with a thesis entitled Algorithms and Data Structures for Dynamic Graph Algorithms.[4] He then took a faculty position at Yale University, later becoming a researcher for AT&T Laboratories
before leaving research for Hollywood.
Erdős and Bacon numbers
Westbrook's
Bacon number is also three, due to his appearance as an extra in the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, giving a combined Erdős–Bacon number of six.[5][6]
Writing credits
Futurama episodes
- "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" (2001)
- "The 30% Iron Chef" (2002)
- "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" (2003)
The Simpsons episodes
- "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister" (2005)
- "The Wettest Stories Ever Told" (2006)
- "WGA Award in the Animation category[1]
- "WGA Award in the Animation category[2]
- "No Loan Again, Naturally" (2009)
- "Pranks and Greens" (2009)
- "The Ned-Liest Catch" (2011)
- "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" (2011)
- "WGA Award in the Animation category[3]
- "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (2013)
- "The Man Who Grew Too Much" (2014)
- "The Wreck of the Relationship" (2014)
- "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (2015)
- “The Nightmare After Krustmas” (2016)
- "Caper Chase" (2017)
- "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" (2018)
- "'Tis the 30th Season" (2018)
- "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" (2019)
- "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" (2019)
- "Better Off Ned" (2020)
- "The Road to Cincinnati" (2020)
- "Diary Queen" (2021)
- "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" (2022)
- "Pin Gal" (2023)
- "Clown V. Board of Education" (2023)
- "Treehouse of Horror XXXIV" (2023)
References
- ^ a b McNary, Dave (2008-02-09). "Cody, Coen bros. top WGA Awards". Variety. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
- ^ a b Littleton, Cynthia (2009-02-07). "'Milk,' 'Slumdog' top WGA Awards". Variety. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ a b "WGA Awards: Complete List of Winners", The Hollywood Reporter, February 17, 2013.
- ^ Jeffery Westbrook at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Singh, Simon (October 21, 2013), 9 Incredible Nerdy Secrets About The Writers Of "Futurama", BuzzFeed
- ^ McCullagh, Declan (April 12, 2013), In 'Futurama,' robots follow 'Bender's Law,' not Asimov's, CNET
External links
- Jeff Westbrook at IMDb
- Dr. Sarah's Mathematical Backgrounds of the Simpsons Writers
- A Futurama Math Conversation with Dr. Jeff Westbrook
- Jeffery Westbrook: list of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server
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