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[Dan Lynch]

Oh yeah!  There was a Wednesday night poker game on the peninsula with about 5-8 people. One night we invited Bob Floyd to play. Big mistake...  He had never played poker so we told him the rules and licked our chops. A few hands in and he had figured out the game including bluffing and took us to the cleaners. Nice guy, but somehow not invited back 😂👏. 

Dan

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> On Jan 3, 2021, at 9:55 AM, vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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!  
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>> I, myself, taught computer science without ever having taken a course in it. Early times. 60s. 
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>> Cheers,
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>> Dan
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