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STEPHENS AS CRINGELY Stephens was the third author to contribute to ''Infoworld'' under the Cringely pseudonym, the first two being Rory J. O'Connor and then Laurie Flynn. During his lengthy tenure (1987-1995), the character of Cringely changed dramatically (morphing from a private eye type to a slick, womanizing tech insider), and became an increasingly popular tech pundit after authoring the book '', ISBN 0-88730-855-4). After a financial disagreement in ''. Stephens' Cringely currently writes an online column for the show NerdTV , also for PBS. More recently he has become a blogger for the Technology Evangelist site. ''InfoWorld.com'' continues to publish Robert X. Cringely's Notes From the Field column as a blog, written by an experienced technology journalist whose identity remains unknown. STANFORD Stephens earned a '', December 1998 in 1975. In '', November 13, 1998 that Stephens had falsely claimed to have received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and to have been employed as a professor there. Stanford's administration stated that while Stephens had been a Teaching Assistant and had pursued course work toward a doctoral degree, he had never held a professorship nor had he been awarded the degree. Stephens then stated that while he had received a master's degree from the department of communications and completed the classes and tests required for the Ph.D., he acknowledged that he failed to complete his Dissertation . Asked about the resulting controversy, Stephens told a reporter: " new fact has now become painfully clear to me: you don't say you have the Ph.D unless you REALLY have the Ph.D." "[http://daily.stanford.org/article/1998/11/11/pbsAnalystFalselyClaimsStanfordPhd PBS analyst falsely claims Stanford Ph.D " by Marni Leff, Stanford Daily, November 11, 1998 NOTES EXTERNAL LINKS
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