Quais são as credenciais acadêmicas de Bob Howard?

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Eu li todos os livros do Laundry Files, e me lembro vagamente de que Bob insiste em ser chamado de Doutor em algum momento, o que significa que ele tem um PhD, provavelmente em Ciência da Computação.

Isso já foi confirmado em algum dos livros, ou estou me lembrando errado?

    
por Gustav Bertram 22.07.2016 / 13:15

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Bob não tem doutorado. Ele desistiu antes de completar um, devido a um pequeno acidente ( ahem ).

Actually they didn’t. The ten-percenter thing only really applied to staff with actual postgraduate degrees. I’d never finished my PhD, much less got to strut my stuff in a silly robe, but I’d jumped on the bandwagon with a carefully muted shriek of glee

The Rhesus Chart

Ele realizou doutorado na Birmingham University. Não está claro se ele tirou seu bacharelado lá também, nem se ele obteve um mestrado (um dos pré-requisitos normais para fazer um doutorado no Reino Unido)

I have a somewhat embarrassing relationship with Wolverhampton. Back when I was at university in Birmingham I nearly landscaped it by accident. I was trying to develop a new graphics algorithm. Planar homogeneous matrix transformations into dimensions dominated by gibbering horrors tend to attract the Laundry's attention: they got to me just in time--just before the nameless horrors I was about to unintentionally summon into this world--and made me a job offer I wasn't allowed to refuse.

The Fuller Memorandum

Ele é formado em Ciência da Computação

THE NAME’S HOWARD, BOB HOWARD. I’M A COMPUTER SCIENCE graduate and IT person, and I work for the British government in London, as does my wife Mo, Dominique O’Brien, who is a few years older than I am but still (in my opinion) a gorgeous redhead.

The Rhesus Chart

Bob nunca insistiu em ser chamado de "Doutor", mas sua namorada (mais tarde esposa) Mo tem sido muito sensível sobre isso no passado. Possivelmente é isso que você está pensando.

What do you bring to the table, Mrs. Howard?”
I grin and bare my teeth at her: “That’s Dr. O’Brien to you, Ms. Murphy.”
I glance over my shoulder at Lecter: his case is the right way round to display the sticker on its side. THIS MACHINE KILLS DEMONS.
“That facetious bumper-sticker sums up what I used to do for our organization – our real organization, that is. I destroy emergent threats. When I’m not doing field work, I have a PhD in philosophy of mathematics, lecture part-time in music theory at Birkbeck, and specialize in the application of fast Fourier transforms to psychoacoustic summoning systems. And I appear to be your designated line manager.”

The Annihilation Score

    
22.07.2016 / 17:37