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
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.
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.
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.”