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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by 082349872349872 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:44AM (#23582675)
Might be difficult. I couldn't turn up any policy in brief surfing, but the only posthumous degrees I found were non-doctoral, and https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mary-whiton-calkin... doesn't bode well.

(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.)

Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by angry_octet on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:46AM (#23584551)
There's nothing preventing award of degrees after death, if the thesis has been defended, other than administrivia. It's not the Nobel prize.