Panlab

sorry, but i cannot agree to your opinion. i think we/uvic have at least two things to do (in addition to establishing the fact that whether nate has a doctoral degree—done and academic appointment from/at uvic)

+ educate our students that claiming or trying to claim something does not belong to us is a really bad thing, and one cannot get away from the truth forever. academic integrity is the lifeline of a university/person

+ undo the damage by this false claim (at least on the doctoral degree). http://www.wurldtech.com/corporate/management_team.php now has a new bio, but everything is still there other than this page, e.g.,

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:jNc0C_CmJnsJ:www.wurldtech.com/corporate/management_team.php

and his new bio is even more alarming: “As the creator of the Achilles testing technology and Certification program, Kubes research efforts have been heavily funded by Canadian, American, and International Government agencies.” we are yet to know how much the false uvic degree and possibly academic position gave him or his company personal and financial advantage especially from canandian governments where we get funding from as well! if we found out the fraud and do not act properly, we will become liable (i am not a lawyer, but as a principle, if someone abused my name, i will fight to the maximum allowed by law). the same thing for uvic’s reputation

nate is a popular guy, and i believe he’s smart as well. if you google “nate kube”, you can see more than 1,000 entries, so the damage of the false degree and potentially the false position is far reaching (if he really had a doctoral degree from uvic, i think we should nominate him for the outstanding uvic alumni award 😉

only these two things can ensure such things will not happen again (it is already astonishing that this thing could ever happen to uvic), otherwise, we give every one of our students an excuse to abuse, at least once

since your opinion will potentially affect all engineering faculty and the way we supervise our students, i am copying to to the engineering faculty mailing list as well. i think we need a wider discussion. thanks

someone claims to hold a uvic doctoral degree and used to be a uvic assistant professor (?) without having a phd thesis at uvic yet

http://www.wurldtech.com/corporate/management_team.php

“Dr. Nate Kube
Co-founder & CTO

As Chief Technology Officer at Wurldtech? Security Technologies, Dr. Kube directs the company’s technology decisions and R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation, simplicity, and security.

Dr. Kube is a voting member of ISA SP99 and is actively involved in the IEEE and IETF, as well as other standards bodies. He has co-authored a number of security standards and best practices for the industrial automation industry and has received numerous industry recognition awards.

Before starting Wurldtech with co-founder Tyler Williams in 2006, Kube was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Victoria where he taught graduate classes in network security and conducted research in embedded systems testing, multi threaded/data flow processor architecture, functional and declarative languages, and fault-tolerant computing for the US Department of Defense. Dr. Kube also worked as a technical advisor with the Group for Advanced Information Technology (GAIT) at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, where he designed a number of security technologies for the Industrial Automation industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in computer science from the University of Victoria.”