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Re:Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? by qeorge on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:54PM (#758706)
If this is true (I don't think it is), he apparently duped the University Of Maryland itself:

"Kundra holds an undergraduate degree from UM in psychology and a master's of science in information technology."

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/facts/mm/08-09/mar.cfm

Took all of 1 minute to find that on Bing:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Aumd.edu+%22vivek+kundra%...

Can we move on please?

Re:Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? by zhyder on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:31PM (#758833)
Your link has "Kundra holds an undergraduate degree from UM in psychology and a master's of science in information technology."

Which actually doesn't indicate that the MS in IT was from UM, and hence doesn't clash with Dvorak's post.

Edit: Interesting that the Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Kundra , has already been updated with "claims to hold... but no record" using Dvorak's post as the citation. Should have waited a few days to see how this gets resolved or at least backed up by more journalists.

Re:Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? by tokenadult on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:10PM (#758758)
That's an interesting clash of sources. The university registrar is the authoritative source on who has a degree. The university news service is a captive journalistic organization--it will be interesting to see if its report rather than Dvorak's is confirmed from the primary sources.
Re:Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony? by jdminhbg on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @02:32PM (#758837)
We should move on because the U of MD PR office didn't fact-check his degree in putting out a press release?