I believe you may have misunderstood what I wrote. Oliver Heaviside had
NO formal academic diplomata, but was fully professional with the
necessary credentials as demonstrated by knowledge, understanding, and
skills -- including making fundamental contributions to mathematics,
engineering, physics, etc. I explicitly am not discussing either
legitimate academic diplomata nor vendor-based credentials/certificates.
You evidently have the sort of credentials that I was discussing.
However, this is not meant to denigrate a legitimate earned academic
diploma -- a diploma may (*MAY*) be sufficient, but is not necessary --
except for those entities that require such diplomata or certificates
for a person to be allowed to work. Thus, in the USA, a medical doctor
has to have a diploma to get a license to practice medicine; at my
university, unfortunately, today a person such as Heaviside could not be
allowed to join the Faculty, and definitely not the tenure-stream
Faculty. My university looks at the bar-code, as it were, not the
actual contents.
On 12/31/20 4:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:19 PM Yasha Karant <ykar...@gmail.com> wrote:
I fully agree concerning an engineering background.
However, any good practitioner (with, like Heaviside, credentials
equivalent to both academic intellectual education and practical field
experience, irrespective of formal diplomata -- today, the diploma seems
the most important and a Heaviside probably would be impossible) should
have the requisite software engineering techniques and skills. My
*Hah*. I studied bio-electrical engineering, computer courses were a
requirement but not the focus of my interest. A dozen years in the
field supporting lab systems gave enough expertise to provide
some..... expertise, enough to nearly double my income when I shifted
to private industry. There is a great deal of skilled engineering and
medicine that I'd much rather be performed by a less credentialed
person with more practical experience.
