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[John Levine]

In article <E1F81BBA-1D18-4560-8722-BC74E2F2F6CE at lynch.com> you write:
>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!  

When I was at Yale getting my PhD, Ned Irons was on the faculty and had only an M.S.

Of course, he had already invented some of the fundamental ideas in computer languages.