Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
by angry_octet on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:46AM
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There's nothing preventing award of degrees after death, if the thesis has been defended, other than administrivia. It's not the Nobel prize.
(I'm probably just cynical, but if we took up a large enough collection, I'd bet they'd be willing to grant a degree in lieu of naming a building.)