http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ - "Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advisor: Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ - "Franz received a Dr. sc. techn. degree in Computer Science (advisor: Niklaus Wirth) and a Dipl. Informatik-Ing. ETH degree, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich." So Michael Franz can hardly be considered impartial to this matter.