4783 I strongly suspect J. Lee Anthony is a fake name, or simply a fake person. J. Lee Anthony claims to be a retired professor, and the former director of a computer science department. Despite this, I cant find any of his publications on Google Scholar, or any of his academic affiliations anywhere on the Internet. A Google Scholar search for JL Anthony returns mostly psychology publications, and a JL Anthony search from the years 1969 to 1984 barely returns anything at all. He claims to have done a postdoc at Harvard in 1983, and Harvard did not start offering a computer science major until 1984. (This isnt impossible; he may have done a postdoc in applied math, despite getting an MS in EECS.) Furthermore, postdocs were much less common in the 1980s than they are now. He claims to have attended Berkeley from 1969-1973 and 1975, getting his A.B. in math in 1971, and an MS in EECS in 1976. (Berkeley only offers B.A. degrees in math, but again this is not impossible; he might just be spelling the name of his degree wrong.) He also says he was a graduate student at Stanford from 1974-1975. He does not list the institution he got a PhD from, or the institution he was a professor at. (This is also not impossible, as he may be concerned with privacy. But most people who are that concerned with privacy would not have written 1000 answers on Quora under their supposed real name.) Finally, someone who was an 18 year old undergraduate in 1969 would be ~63 years old now, or below the US retirement age. (Again, he might have retired early, but most nondisabled tenured professors love their job too much to retire at 63.) While there are definitely ways to give him the benefit of the doubt, I find this rather suspicious, and believe it warrants investigation. He gives a lot of half-assed career advice and uses his academic stature to give himself credibility.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:02:59 +0000
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