[ih] PhD

[vinton cerf]

Robert Floyd was on the faculty of Stanford but had not attained a Ph.D. -
but he was brilliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Floyd

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On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:24 PM Dan Lynch via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> In an earlier post someone was posting about Gordon Bell and his wife
> Gwen. It correctly attributed a PhD degree to Gwen and incorrectly to
> Gordon. Gordon had a Masters degree. Of course he gave out PhDs while at
> CMU. The early days of computer science found a number of brilliant people
> leading the field without advanced academic degrees of their own. Frothy
> times!
>
> I, myself, taught computer science without ever having taken a course in
> it. Early times. 60s.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
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