Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by jedberg on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:06PM
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If you know them sure. But for a professor who I took a class with? I would always call them Professor Whatever if my only interaction with them was in a classroom context.
Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by foota on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:52AM
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Maybe a generational thing? Not sure when you went to school, I went to a midsized state school 3 years ago and mostly referred to professors by their first or last name. I think this is more common in CS perhaps? I don't think my physics friends did the same thing as often though.
Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by bookofjoe on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:41AM
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Related: as an anesthesiology associate professor (M.D.), I always told the residents to call me Joe. However, there were always a couple who either would not or could not do so, and addressed me for the entirety of their three-year residencies as Dr. Stirt. Diff'rent strokes
Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by bookofjoe on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:37AM
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Cf. "Dr." Jill Biden
Re:2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork [pdf]
by downerending on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:48PM
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?
Even referring to someone as "Dr. Whatever" in the third person is pretty unusual, if you've ever met them. If I was to speak of my college professors right now, I certainly wouldn't use "Doctor". Maybe if they were 70 or had a Nobel or something.
(Related: In the movie Avatar, one scientist introduces himself to another scientist as "Doctor Norm Whatever". It absolutely clangs, at least to my ears.)