Fascinating, I’m working these days on projects having to do with RF
propagation through the ionosphere, for which her papers are “seminal works”
From: John Hearns
Date: Friday, March 22, 2019 at 1:48 PM
To: Jim Lux
Cc: Prentice Bisbal , "beowulf@beowulf.org"
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [EXTERNAL
I matriculated (enrolled) at Glasgow University in 1981 (Scots lads and
lasses start Yoonie at a tender age!).
My Computer Science teacher was Jennifer Haselgrove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Haselgrove
Wonderful lady, who of course did not have a degree in Comp Sci - as there
were none
Well, just a few days ago a colleague posted this link
https://www.xing.com/news/insiders/articles/recruiting-tipp-warum-wir-dringend-die-qualifikationsanforderungen-uberdenken-mussen-2144954
(unfortunately in German), which explains that companies are missing a lot of
candidates because they ar
This is somewhat off topic for the list, but what you are describing is a
phenomenon known as “signaling” – that is, the possession of the degree isn’t
strictly required for the task at hand (an autodidact could potentially do it),
but that possession is a signal of other characteristics which a
