> > Unfortunately, the PhD is increasingly being seen the same way, as
> > just another hoop to get through. The object becomes the generation of
> > material considered suitable for PhD assessment, rather than
> > documenting original contributions.
>
> Sun Microsystems Chief Scientists, John Gage and Bill Joy, would
> disagree with you.
>
> http://gbolcer.ics.uci.edu/media/academe.html
That looks like
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/2346.html
to me. It's the usual unsubstantiated wired hype.
> Haven't you
> ever wondered whatever happened to those people who were passed
> up through the grades just to get rid of them? Ones that were
> given, even B.S.'s in computer science? Where do you think those
> people are now?
Working at Sun.
They're the 90% of Sun employees who don't know who Bill Joy is.
L.
this is the result of paying for your education.
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