The University of Oxford conferred honorary degrees on nine distinguished figures at the annual Encaenia ceremony on 22 June 2016, among them, Apple’s Chief Designer, Sir Jony Ive.
• Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa: Monsignor Professor Tomáš Halík is a Czech priest, theologian and author, and winner of the 2014 Templeton Prize.
• Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa: The Right Hon the Lord Mance, PC, is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and High Steward of the University of Oxford.
• Doctor of Letters, honoris causa: Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar
• Doctor of Letters, honoris causa: Professor Paul Krugman
• Doctor of Letters, honoris causa: Japanese architect Professor Kazuyo Sejima
• Doctor of Music, honoris causa: The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt
• Doctor of Science, honoris causa: Dr Cornelia Bargmann is a neurobiologist, Torsten N Wiesel Professor at Rockefeller University and winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal.
• Doctor of Science, honoris causa:Professor Mildred Dresselhaus is a physicist and Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is also Professor Emerita of Physics and Electrical Engineering.
MacDailyNews Take: Congratulations to Sir Jony and all those upon whom honorary degrees were conferred!
Jony Ive’s honorary diploma was printed with a very thin, unreadable font.
Hell you need to go to spec savers mate.
Now go back to work and design some new iPhone, not the S or SE series. You’re paid a lot by AAPL, a public company making money not a charitable foundation.
Hey! I like the SE! Is the best exterior design of all iPhones to date.
A company that has got to where it has in great part on the back of his work. Hell some people are so deluded and ungrateful or maybe it’s just plain stupid.
He is very well compensated by Apple. There’s no gratefulness or ungratefulness. He’s an employee.
I certainly get an honorary doctorate, but I don’t get the science part. I mean he’s a designer. So doctor of arts or something like that.
So you don’t think the work he has done has anything to do with science and engineering? I guess architecture is just a few casual doodles on the back of an envelope then.
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Sounds good to me.
The only thing is how do you call him? Is it Sir Dr. Jonathan Ive or Dr. Sir Jonathan Ive.
Ive … Jony Ive