For the piddly small American degree is called B.S. and NOT B.Sc., the degree as awarded in the U.K., Eire, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South africa and India. Being only 17 miles away from where he was born, in Hildesheim, Germany, it really annoys me that a crook is the leader of the stanford team. DARPA chuck them out of the race...at least I care.
Maybe it has not incurred to anyone yet, but
if you check out Sebastian Thurn's homepage, and download his C.V. http://robots.stanford.edu/cv.html (bottom of the page) or even check on the home page of the Carnegie Mellon University http://news.cs.cmu.edu/Releases/demo/33.html, he said correctly in German that he did obtain his VORDIPLOM. He, however translates this as having attained his B.Sc.. If you check with the German translation engine Leo (provided by the University of Munich), and enter the name VORDIPLOM into the box dict.leo.org, the following items come up:
intermediate diploma das Vordiplom p
intermediate examination das Vordiplom p
pre-degree das Vordiplom p.
Given that a Vordiplom is NOT a degree leading to a profession, but a pre-degree and that as a rule of thumb, it should be attained after TWO years of study, and a B.Sc. (Honours degree) can take up to FOUR years, Mr. Thrun has either a poor command in the English language, or for his U.S. employers, he has not told the truth, I am afraid to say. I think academic integrity should also entail the respective person's C.V.!
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For the piddly small American degree is called B.S. and NOT B.Sc., the degree as awarded in the U.K., Eire, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South africa and India. Being only 17 miles away from where he was born, in Hildesheim, Germany, it really annoys me that a crook is the leader of the stanford team. DARPA chuck them out of the race...at least I care.
Maybe it has not incurred to anyone yet, but if you check out Sebastian Thurn's homepage, and download his C.V. http://robots.stanford.edu/cv.html (bottom of the page) or even check on the home page of the Carnegie Mellon University http://news.cs.cmu.edu/Releases/demo/33.html, he said correctly in German that he did obtain his VORDIPLOM. He, however translates this as having attained his B.Sc.. If you check with the German translation engine Leo (provided by the University of Munich), and enter the name VORDIPLOM into the box dict.leo.org, the following items come up: intermediate diploma das Vordiplom p intermediate examination das Vordiplom p pre-degree das Vordiplom p. Given that a Vordiplom is NOT a degree leading to a profession, but a pre-degree and that as a rule of thumb, it should be attained after TWO years of study, and a B.Sc. (Honours degree) can take up to FOUR years, Mr. Thrun has either a poor command in the English language, or for his U.S. employers, he has not told the truth, I am afraid to say. I think academic integrity should also entail the respective person's C.V.!