From Slashdot I got to the page of the unfortunate Jorge Cortell, a teacher cenzored and eventually fired for having held a conference on Peer to Peer networks.
Shocking, indeed, and another reason for all of us to start worrying:
On the list of crimes against society, after the well known crimes of sharing your software or musical belongings, you can add another one: the crime of sharing your ideas and your knowledge.
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Alex este programator, antreprenor, entuziast, blogger, early adopter si in general un digerati obsedat de internet, tehnologie si software.
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This Jorge Cortell guy has lost all creditability in Spain after spanish bloggers found out that his entire CV is fake. He doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree.
In order to “silence” all his critics, Jorge created a new blog page—- and you have to register to post comments.
But in his new blog, Jorge Cortell PROUDLY proclaims that he received a B+ in a FIRST YEAR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE from Harvard EXTENSION SCHOOL (not the real harvard university, the night school/continuing education division of harvard). Tell me, if he has even a bachelor’s degree, he would be taking GRADUATE courses (instead of freshmen undergraduate courses) in May 2005.
http://www.cortell.net/2005/06/13/orgulloso-carnaza-para-trolls/
And in his new blog page, he no longer shows his CV. That tells you something.
http://www.cortell.net/sobre-jorge/perfil-academico/
This is his “old and fake” CV.
http://homepage.mac.com/jorgecortell/curriculum.htm
“University of Brantridge” does not exist in Hawaii. He only has a “Associate degree” from a community college. His Oxford “diploma” in not a real degree either.
http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/computing/promo/
Oxford designed this “diploma” (taken via internet) for the “unemployed” and housewifes with kids at home.
http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/computing/promo/our_students/entry_profile.asp
Oxford’s requirement for this course—- word processing and spreadsheet.
http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/computing/promo/our_students/student_comments.asp
In conclusion—- he doesn’t even have a bachelor’s degree.
And all his “post graduate courses” in spain—- doesn’t count because you can’t even enrol in those courses without a valid bachelor’s degree.
Use Babelfish to translate the spanish websites.
http://www.acam.es/noticias_detalle.php?id=858
http://fraude-cortell.blogspot.com
Here is a collection of websites on him since May 2005, basically everything since May 22 have been saying that he is a fraud.
http://piezas.bandaancha.st/docs/cortell.html
The spanish edition of wikipedia is preparing to kill Cortell’s entry because of his fake CV fiasco.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Cortell
OOHH… pretty shocking indeed…
Still.. a fraud as he seems to be… is his story true or not?
Was he actually a lecturer in the University?
And if so, then was the reason of his being fired related to his P2P speech or not?