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Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by noelwelsh »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #17
noelwelsh wrote: post #10

I know a few cases of researchers who don't have PhDs, but I've never seen this before. Probably the best known researcher in CS who doesn't hold a PhD is Simon Peyton Jones. He is very well known in the field of programming languages and one of the main implementors of the main Haskell implementation GHC. I think he might have started a PhD in the last few years, but he was appointed a professor at Glasgow without o…

There are many many more than that, but we don't typically bother with those details; if the guy/gal knows their stuff, who cares what their degree level is?

Sssh, you don't want the grad students to hear! Without grad students who's gonna do all the prof's grunt work?

Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by noelwelsh »

fijal wrote: post #20
noelwelsh wrote: post #10

I know a few cases of researchers who don't have PhDs, but I've never seen this before. Probably the best known researcher in CS who doesn't hold a PhD is Simon Peyton Jones. He is very well known in the field of programming languages and one of the main implementors of the main Haskell implementation GHC. I think he might have started a PhD in the last few years, but he was appointed a professor at Glasgow without o…

you mean "the best known researcher employed by a university as a professor"? Because a lot of VM researchers don't have a PhD.

I was simply sharing with HN what I thought might be an interesting anecdote about SPJ within the context of this post. Feel free to split whichever hairs are of interest to you.

Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by edgar_di »

now you made me feel bad. I have the wall decorated with a Bsc. in engineering, a graduate diploma, and Masters degree in IT and no Job!. a Degree Is Worthless, you get a piece of paper after spending 4+ or more years of your life; Collaborate!.

Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by aortega »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #17
noelwelsh wrote: post #10

I know a few cases of researchers who don't have PhDs, but I've never seen this before. Probably the best known researcher in CS who doesn't hold a PhD is Simon Peyton Jones. He is very well known in the field of programming languages and one of the main implementors of the main Haskell implementation GHC. I think he might have started a PhD in the last few years, but he was appointed a professor at Glasgow without o…

There are many many more than that, but we don't typically bother with those details; if the guy/gal knows their stuff, who cares what their degree level is?

All credentials including PhDs are designed for getting into a job (I.E. research position, postdoc, etc.), and they are a very effective tool at it.

In scientific articles (At least from IEEE) notice there are no titles associated with authors. It's a common misconception that you need a PhD to publish an article, there are many papers with authors in high-school.

Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by raverbashing »

noelwelsh wrote: post #21
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many many more than that, but we don't typically bother with those details; if the guy/gal knows their stuff, who cares what their degree level is?

Sssh, you don't want the grad students to hear! Without grad students who's gonna do all the prof's grunt work?

Yes

After all, how dare someone tell the grad students they can be someone without a PhD.

They are almost forgetting how's life outside the academic circles!

Now, you're late for CS 201 room 704 on that building across the campus, go and don't forget your TA notes.

Re: This Professor only has a PhD degree

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Post by arethuza »

wwosik wrote: post #19

I believe that, for once, formally you don't need MA/MSc to get a PhD. Another example could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach

I don't think a Masters has ever been a requirement in the UK - I started a PhD without one and that was fairly common (at least in the 80s/90s).
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