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美国2008 感恩節(Thanksgiving 2008): 何毓琦 2008-11-27 06:46; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) In 2001 I “retired”from the Harvard faculty. At the retirement dinner givenby my school, I gave the following “thank you” speech. Seven plus years later on thanksgiving day 2008, ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|5650 次阅读|7 个评论

The IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control: 何毓琦 2008-11-27 03:03; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) In my field of control system theory and application, the premier publication is the above named journal. In China, its status is roughly equivalent to Nature or Science for biology/che ...; 12279 次阅读|3 个评论

Wall street financial crisis hits home: 何毓琦 2008-11-21 19:16; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I use to say that America is spending her children’s future and they will have to pay for our sins in their time. Little did I imagine that the time we have to pay is NOW and not in our children’s fu ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|5191 次阅读|4 个评论

Academic Travels – then (1960s) and now: 何毓琦 2008-11-20 00:00; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) I mentioned earlier that one of the side benefits of academia is the opportunity to travel all over the world combing business with pleasure (For example, see http://www.sciencene ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|4982 次阅读|2 个评论

Professorial Retirement – European Style: 何毓琦 2008-11-17 18:34; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (For the past four days I was in Delft, the Netherlands taking part in a celebratory event) In the US, as the saying goes –“professors are dime a dozen”. When a professor retires, the department may ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|9568 次阅读|4 个评论

The rich are different from you and me -F. Fitzgerald: 何毓琦 2008-11-16 01:08; In my blog article about Harvard, one reader commented that in 2001, the year I retired, the Harvard endowment stood at 19 billion. Yet today, eight years later, it stood at 37 billion according to Wikipedia. He sounded incredulous. So I quoted the above verse and let me explain by way of two ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|5742 次阅读|2 个评论

Harvard Tightens Her Belt in Recession: 何毓琦 2008-11-11 22:46; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) (Note added 12/4/08. Today's Boston Globe reported that Harvard endowment lost 8.1 billion dollars in the past four months) These days in the US you cannot turn on the TV or radio with ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|4239 次阅读|2 个评论

Tidbits for History of Sciences: 何毓琦 2008-11-11 21:45; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) Two Incidents I remember about John Backus (1924-2007) – the inventor of FORTRAN, the first widely used programming language , and Draper Prize Recipient (1993). During 1955—57, I was workin ...; 4633 次阅读|5 个评论

On Education and Research (13) - replies to questions (1): 何毓琦 2008-11-8 06:17; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) This is my first response to requests and questions raised by readers to my blog article “A question to younger readers http://www.sciencenet.cn/blog/user_content.aspx?id=45325 ”. First, the r ...; 9384 次阅读|3 个评论

Only in America: 何毓琦 2008-11-6 00:06; (For new reader and those who request 好友请求 , please read my 公告栏 first) You can listen to the concession and victory speech by Obama and McCain for their inspiration and grace on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1102 ...; 个人分类: 生活点滴|4127 次阅读|2 个评论

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