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Despite the heightened responsibilities and time demands associated with leadership, managers who oversee other employees experience less stress — as measured by biological and psychological tests — than lower-level workers.

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Simon 在其回憶錄中申述過為什麼官越大工作越輕鬆

大學出版社/ CMU 大學缺出版社

• The End is Just the Beginning: : U. A. Whitaker, B...

這位人物是AMP 連接器公司的創始人 我1987年拿到此書 現在可免費下載
早上翻一下 嚇一跳 是CMU 大學歷史系為其發行的
此書竟然無索引 難怪Herb Simon 說該校發現缺出版社時 為時已晚

 2012.2.9
CMU 大學缺出版社

(2009年10月某天，許達然老師，時瑋和金台夫婦，阿松與我，談起東海大學出版社。它或積弱不振，或若有若無，不知應如何起死回生之。) 那天我或許說過，Herb Simon說過，他的大學CM 是美國名校，不過他們在60-70年代作過成立大學出版社的可行性分析 (對CM大學而言，錢可能不是問題) 。結論是”來不及”成為一流的大學出版社，美國好的大學出版社很多。所以Simon的書多在MIT 出版社和普林斯頓大學出版社出，他的好友的，選在哈佛大學出版社出。

我研究一下臺大、輔大….的出版社。台大有資源當台灣的大學出版社的龍頭，當然是例外。輔大的一年也出版二、三十本。約6-7年前，我特地到清華大學的出版社一看，只二位職員……。Ken Su 送給我過一本交大出版品，我認為不夠好。

我昨天在一起二手書店買了清華今年度的新書: 張立綱傳：五院院士的故事。(本文不談文章，作者是理工人，大體很好，幾處有缺點)。它共277頁，全彩色，定價(才)350元。此書的「企劃‧編輯」是「科學月刊社」，換句話說，科學界幫助清華大學出版社。而清大校長有企畫等的能力。

組織參與: 試驗場

朋友

本院從2008年起每年至少出版一本書 並在各大學或學會發表:

長青：陳寬仁八秩紀念文集

系統與變異: 淵博知識與理想設計法 (2010)

新書 轉型:統計品管可靠性與轉型的新經濟學The Trilogy of the New Economics of Dr. Deming

新書:《 戴明博士文選: 統計品管到淵博知識》The Essential Deming

新書：『台灣戴明圈：2008年東海戴明學者講座』

「所謂情義，內容廣泛，支持幫助是情義，安慰勉勵也是情義。潛移默化是情義，棒喝告誡也是情義。嘉言懿行是情義，趣事軼話也是情義。」我希望有一天也可以「為生平所見的情義立傳，也是對情義的回報。」[1]

我以前在中原大學兼任時 曾請教大師 Herbert A. Simon如何學習/教導"管理學"
他建議我們將就近的組織 (大學等)作為"實驗學習的場所".....
我決定2013年的專書的主題是探討"我們與CSQC/CSQ"---不只是懷舊而是參與式的研究

徵稿
《學會情義:以CSQ為例》預計2013年9月出版。它是站在世界品質發展史的論述和反思的集體合作品。它是一群人的反思與展望的故事。

您如果有興趣寫作，請在2013年6月1日前給我們稿件 (請寄<hcsimonl@gmail.com>)，我們收稿之後會告訴您接受或希望您改進。這本書不是您自誇自己經歷的，而是希望您說些美好的故事，反思我們的成就為什麼僅止於此，並提出您的建議。

我們特別歡迎你寫一些簡傳 (約500字，範例為(PDF)台灣影視歌人物誌1950-1965 。)

您投稿的稿報只是贈書二本以及一聲謝謝。

Models of Thought: v. 1 1980/ v.2, 1989

 

Models of Thought: v. 1

 

• Hardcover: 524 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (January 1980)
• Language: English

Publication Date: January 1980 | ISBN-10: 0300023472 | ISBN-13: 978-0300023473

Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon has in the past quarter century been in the front line of the information-processing revolution; in fact, to a remarkable extent his and his colleagues' contributions have written the history of that revolution in cognitive psychology. This book brings together papers dating from the start of Simon's career to the present. Its focus is on modeling the chief components of human cognition and on testing these models experimentally.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Models of Thought, Volume 2 (v. 2) [Paperback]

• Paperback
• Publisher: Yale University Press (July 19, 1989)
• Language: English

昨天跟錦坤夫婦共飯。由於浙菜口味重，不覺多吃一碗飯。“偏到荒年飯量加” 。

Ken 還《顧亭林詩集》。我翻到”世事陵夷極 生涯閱歷枯” 卻發現我`今年五月間就有此解字。

我們也談一下一位共同的朋友，很是直爽。她在美國應該生活得很不錯。

我發覺一不可原諒的疏忽: Ken 在80年代腎臟有點問題，不過當時我沒發覺。我跟他談起前一陣在You Tube 看昔日半導體業大英雄Andy Grove 抱病做”顧氏?紀念演講” ，諄諄告誡國人務必多深入研究醫療經濟學。

Ken的佛學著譯頗多，足可以印一本文集。我以前建議他要學Herbert Simon 編其Models of Thought 方式。這次我跟他說某家Print ON Demand 的經驗。

我說很關心Irving Babbitt白璧德的法句經翻譯文集 : The Dhammapada (1936) translator, with essay

這次到Wikipedia 的日文版，發現此等經典，日本有近20種翻譯，英譯也有七八種。 我們討論為什麼中國對它們興趣不再高，偏見，以及學術人還想追求教義的開悟。

我說希望有本《法句經》的百科全書或Handbook (大處著眼) 。Ken 說論文當然從小處著手。

Ken 說很感謝台灣的一些雜誌刊登他的論文，有的還有稿費。

榮顯James March 受教

她為該戲學上海話、讀史書、唱蘇州評彈，相當受教。為演好王佳芝，不接朋友電話，連父母也不聞不問，搞至六親不認的地步。

受教: 接受他人的教誨。戰國策˙魏策四：信陵君曰：無忌謹受教。文選˙任昉˙到大司馬記室牋：況昉受教君子，將二十年。

昔日hc翻譯Herbert Simon 諾貝爾經濟學獎代表作『管理行為』（台北：華人戴明學院）時，將關鍵字 docility 翻譯成「可訓練性 或易教化」（pp.108-10 與305/307）。現在覺得或許該翻譯成「受教能力」。

我過去錯以為 James March過世 真不敬 其實他還很健在 2006年HBR還訪談他呢

榮顯James March[1]　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　by H. A. Simon

　　據我們了解，我們這次聚會的名目功能是要來討論「組織學習」這主題，而檯面下的功能則是要來榮耀、思念James March。或是表、裏兩功能互換應才對呢？不論採用哪一種說法，兩者都是同樣有價值而又令人心悅的事業。莎士比亞把人生分成五大階段。[2]我們可以把莎士比亞的後面階段更充實化、精緻化，即用那些時刻我們要彰顯榮耀的人來命名該階段。我們在獲得博士學位時，通常不久就要撰文來敬獻或敬悼師長，因為他們的確進入有成就的尊嚴期，值得令人感懷之。數十年後，我們發現自己要彰顯自己的同輩或同事。然後，我們或有幸有機會來彰我們的學生。

　　當然，Jim March一向不是我的學生。（就我記憶，從早期認識起，他就一向沒有那種學生的易受教化（docility）[3]品質。）話雖如此，我是第一個提供他工作的人，而他也應邀來就任。在過去，「給工作」是容易的事。我在New Haven會見他，與他共進晚餐，並立刻決定要聘他──當時我也許曾與我的院長Lee Bach談過這決定，不過，那時我們不必擔心教授委員會，所以該決定很快就成了。

　　我回憶這段往事，可作為我是有本事快速學習並作出健全判斷的。不過，這其實並不難，在晚餐中，你會很快就了解；與你相處的這人，乃是位前途無量的政治科學家。我那時的看法多中肯（And how right I was）！

附錄：

　　Simon創立的有限理性（bounded or limited rationality）已成廿世紀的重要學說，下述是James March說法︰

　　「近年來，一般而言，各種『有限理性』觀念已多為傳統理性抉擇理論所接受。它們在大多個人決策論中已佔有重要角色。它們被用來發展廠商的行為及演化理論。它們分別用在交易成本經濟學、決策理論、資訊經濟學和組織經濟學等，作為主要基礎。它們已被應用在政治、教育及軍事方面。」

──摘自James March︰〝A Prime on Decision Making︰

How Decisions Happen〞（The Free Press，1994），第9頁。

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[1] 下述這篇紀念文章，因為Herbert A. Simon的《有限理論與組織學習》的引言，發表在Organization Science第二卷第一期，1991年2月，後來收入M. D. Cohen及L. S. Spoull主編的〝Organizational Learning〞一書。這篇文章的正文，已收入《管理行為第四版》中。

　James March曾與H. A. Simon合著《組織（Organizations）》（1958，Wiley，與Simon再度合作出第二版（1990，Blackwell））。 H. A. Simon獲諾貝爾經濟學獎時，March在Science 202號（1978）介紹〝The 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics〞。March有本極淵博的著作《決策論入門（A Primer on Decision Making︰How Decision Happen，the Free Press，1994）及極多篇相當精采的論文，他倆在某一方面是一時瑜亮。》

[2] 參考莎士比亞《如願（As You Like It）》

[3] 這個字是H. A. Simon的專門用語，請參考拙譯《管理行為》索引及內文。

Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

讓機器領會人類語言的「深度學習」

JOHN MARKOFF 報道 2012年11月28日

Hao Zhang/The New York Times

一個語音識別程序把微軟首席科學家理乍得·F·拉希德演講的內容翻譯成了漢語普通話。

一些科技公司宣稱，利用一項基於人腦識別規律模式理論的人工智能技術，它們在計算機視覺、語音識別，以及辨識可望用於製藥的新分子等眾多領域取得了驚人的成果。
這些成果在那些設計執行看、聽、思考等人類活動的軟件的研究者中激起了廣泛熱情。它們提供了科技前景，讓人們有望製造出能夠與人類交流、能夠完成開車及工廠勞動等任務的機器，同時也讓人們更加擔心，能夠取代人工的自動機械人即將問世。

Keith Penner

由計算機科學家傑弗里·E·欣頓領導的學生小組利用深度學習技術來設計軟件。

目前，這種名為“深度學習”的技術已經被應用於以紐昂斯通訊公司(Nuance Communications)的語音識別技術為基礎的虛擬個人助手“蘋果語音助手”(Apple's Siri)，以及利用機器視覺來辨識地址的“谷歌街景”(Google’s Street View)等服務軟件。
但是，近幾個月才有的新事物是深度學習程序不斷提高的速度和精確度，這些程序通常被稱作人工神經網絡，或者簡稱為“神經網”，原因是它們與人腦的神經連結相似。
“深度學習的方法取得了一系列令人驚訝的新成果，”曾在貝爾實驗室(Bell Laboratories)從事開創性筆跡識別研究的紐約大學(New York University)計算機科學家嚴恩·勒坤(Yann LeCun)說。“這些系統在精確度上的巨大進步的確非常罕見。”
上個月，深度學習在中國天津的一次會議上得到了十分高調的展示。當微軟(Microsoft)首席科學家理乍得·F·拉希德(Richard F. Rashid)在巨大的禮堂里發表演說時，電腦程序對他的講話內容進行了識別，還用英語把這些內容實時顯示在了他上方的大屏幕上。
之後，他在講完每句話之後稍作停頓，程序就把這些話翻譯成了中文，同時還附上了模擬他嗓音的漢語配音，儘管拉希德從來都沒說過漢語。這個展示震驚了觀眾，現場掌聲雷動。
之所以能取得這個成果，部分是由於深度學習技術推動了語音識別精確度的提高。
負責監管微軟在全球各地的研究機構的拉希德表示，雖然微軟新語音識別軟件的誤差要比之前的版本低30%，但“還是離完美很遠”。
“現在的誤差率是七分之一到八分之一，不再是四分之一到五分之一，”他在微軟的官方網站上寫道。但是，他表示這仍然是自1979年以來“精確度方面的最顯著進步”，“而且，隨着我們將更多的數據加入訓練過程，我們相信自己能取得更好的結果。”
人工智能研究者非常清楚過分樂觀的危險。長期以來，他們的研究領域一直充斥着不合時宜的爆發熱情，隨之而來的則是同樣引人注目的倒退。
20世紀60年代，有些計算機科學家相信，他們距離可行的人工智能系統只有十年之遙。而在20世紀80年代，一大批商業科技新興公司紛紛倒閉，導致了一些人所說的“AI之冬”（AI winter，即人工智能之冬——譯註）。
然而，近期的成就給計算機領域的很多專家留下了深刻印象。舉例來說，今年十月，在默克集團(Merck)贊助的用於尋找有可能衍生新葯的分子的軟件 設計競賽中，一個與加拿大多倫多大學(University of Toronto)的計算機科學家傑弗里·E·欣頓(Geoffrey E. Hinton)一起從事研究工作的研究生小組獲得了頭獎。
利用深度學習軟件，他們從描述了15種不同分子的化學結構的數據組中挑出了最可能成為有效藥物助劑的那種分子。
這個成果尤其令人震驚，因為這個團隊是事到臨頭才決定參賽的，而且他們設計軟件的時候，對分子和目標之間的聯繫並沒有特別深刻的了解。同時，這些學生面對的是一個相對較小的數據組，而神經網絡通常要在非常大的數據組中才會有良好表現。
“結果真的非常驚人，因為這是深度學習方法首次勝出，更值得一提的是，人們根本想不到它會在這樣一個數據組中取勝，”預測分析公司Kaggle的首 席執行官及創始人安東尼·戈德布盧姆(Anthony Goldbloom)說。該公司經常組織數據科學競賽，包括由默克贊助的上述競賽。
規律模式辨識領域所取得的成就不僅將對藥品研發產生影響，還將對市場營銷和執法等諸多方面產生影響。例如，隨着精確度的提高，市場營銷人員可以通過梳理關於消費者行為的大型數據庫來獲得更準確的消費習慣信息。面部識別技術的進步也會降低監察技術的成本，使之更加普及。
人工神經網絡的理念源於20世紀50年代，旨在模擬人腦吸收信息並從中學習的方式。近幾十年，64歲的欣頓博士（19世紀數學家喬治·布爾 [George Boole]的玄孫，布爾在邏輯領域的工作構成了現代數碼計算機的基礎）率先推出了一些強大的新技術，用來幫助人工神經網絡識別規律模式。
現代人工神經網絡由一系列軟件組成，分為輸入、隱藏層和輸出幾個部分。通過反覆對圖像或聲音等規律模式進行識別，這些軟件就可以得到“訓練”。
在現代計算機日益增長的計算速度和計算能力的幫助下，這些技術推動了語音識別、新葯研製和計算機視覺等領域的快速發展。
最近，在一些特定的有限認知測試中，深度學習系統的表現甚至超過了人類。
例如，盧加諾大學(University of Lugano)瑞士AI實驗室(Swiss A. I. Lab)的科學家開發的一個程序在去年的一場規律模式辨識競賽中勝出，在德國交通標誌的數據庫中分辨圖像時，其表現超過了參與競賽的其他軟件系統和人類專家。
在包含5萬張圖像的數據組中，獲勝的程序精確地辨識出了其中99.46%的圖像；而由32人組成的人類參賽小組所取得的最好成績是99.22%，人類的平均水平則是98.84%。
今年夏季，谷歌的技術人員傑夫·迪安(Jeff Dean)和斯坦福大學(Stanford University)的計算機科學家安德魯·吳(Andrew Y. Ng)把1.6萬台電腦連在一起，使其能夠自我訓練，對2萬個不同物體的1400萬張圖片進行辨識。儘管準確率較低，只有15.8%，但該系統的表現比之 前最先進的系統都要好70%。
欣頓博士領導的研究項目最突出的方面之一是，研究工作基本不受專利權的限制，也沒有因為爭奪知識產權而發生激烈的內部鬥爭，雖然這種鬥爭在高科技領域很常見。
“我們很早就決定不利用這個掙錢，只是想把它推廣開來，影響到每個人，”他說。“這些公司都對這一點感到非常高興。”
更強的計算能力，尤其是圖形處理器的興起，帶來了深度學習的快速發展，說到這一點時，他補充道：
“這項技術的妙處在於，它的發展模式非常漂亮。你基本只需要不斷擴大它的規模、加快它的速度，它就會越變越好。現在它是不會走回頭路的。”

翻譯：陳柳

Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs

By JOHN MARKOFF November 28, 2012

Hao Zhang/The New York Times

A voice recognition program translated a speech given by Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft’s top scientist, into Mandarin Chinese.

Using an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, technology companies are reporting startling gains in fields as diverse as computer vision, speech recognition and the identification of promising new molecules for designing drugs.
The advances have led to widespread enthusiasm among researchers who design software to perform human activities like seeing, listening and thinking. They offer the promise of machines that converse with humans and perform tasks like driving cars and working in factories, raising the specter of automated robots that could replace human workers.

Keith Penner

A student team led by the computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton used deep-learning technology to design software.

The technology, called deep learning, has already been put to use in services like Apple’s Siri virtual personal assistant, which is based on Nuance Communications’ speech recognition service, and in Google’s Street View, which uses machine vision to identify specific addresses.
But what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks or just “neural nets” for their resemblance to the neural connections in the brain.
“There has been a number of stunning new results with deep-learning methods,” said Yann LeCun, a computer scientist at New York University who did pioneering research in handwriting recognition at Bell Laboratories. “The kind of jump we are seeing in the accuracy of these systems is very rare indeed.”
Deep learning was given a particularly audacious display at a conference last month in Tianjin, China, when Richard F. Rashid, Microsoft’s top scientist, gave a lecture in a cavernous auditorium while a computer program recognized his words and simultaneously displayed them in English on a large screen above his head.
Then, in a demonstration that led to stunned applause, he paused after each sentence and the words were translated into Mandarin Chinese characters, accompanied by a simulation of his own voice in that language, which Dr. Rashid has never spoken.
The feat was made possible, in part, by deep-learning techniques that have spurred improvements in the accuracy of speech recognition.
Dr. Rashid, who oversees Microsoft’s worldwide research organization, acknowledged that while his company’s new speech recognition software made 30 percent fewer errors than previous models, it was “still far from perfect.”
“Rather than having one word in four or five incorrect, now the error rate is one word in seven or eight,” he wrote on Microsoft’s Web site. Still, he added that this was “the most dramatic change in accuracy” since 1979, “and as we add more data to the training we believe that we will get even better results.”
Artificial intelligence researchers are acutely aware of the dangers of being overly optimistic. Their field has long been plagued by outbursts of misplaced enthusiasm followed by equally striking declines.
In the 1960s, some computer scientists believed that a workable artificial intelligence system was just 10 years away. In the 1980s, a wave of commercial start-ups collapsed, leading to what some people called the “A.I. winter.”
But recent achievements have impressed a wide spectrum of computer experts. In October, for example, a team of graduate students studying with the University of Toronto computer scientist Geoffrey E. Hinton won the top prize in a contest sponsored by Merck to design software to help find molecules that might lead to new drugs.
From a data set describing the chemical structure of 15 different molecules, they used deep-learning software to determine which molecule was most likely to be an effective drug agent.
The achievement was particularly impressive because the team decided to enter the contest at the last minute and designed its software with no specific knowledge about how the molecules bind to their targets. The students were also working with a relatively small set of data; neural nets typically perform well only with very large ones.
“This is a really breathtaking result because it is the first time that deep learning won, and more significantly it won on a data set that it wouldn’t have been expected to win at,” said Anthony Goldbloom, chief executive and founder of Kaggle, a company that organizes data science competitions, including the Merck contest.
Advances in pattern recognition hold implications not just for drug development but for an array of applications, including marketing and law enforcement. With greater accuracy, for example, marketers can comb large databases of consumer behavior to get more precise information on buying habits. And improvements in facial recognition are likely to make surveillance technology cheaper and more commonplace.
Artificial neural networks, an idea going back to the 1950s, seek to mimic the way the brain absorbs information and learns from it. In recent decades, Dr. Hinton, 64 (a great-great-grandson of the 19th-century mathematician George Boole, whose work in logic is the foundation for modern digital computers), has pioneered powerful new techniques for helping the artificial networks recognize patterns.
Modern artificial neural networks are composed of an array of software components, divided into inputs, hidden layers and outputs. The arrays can be “trained” by repeated exposures to recognize patterns like images or sounds.
These techniques, aided by the growing speed and power of modern computers, have led to rapid improvements in speech recognition, drug discovery and computer vision.
Deep-learning systems have recently outperformed humans in certain limited recognition tests.
Last year, for example, a program created by scientists at the Swiss A. I. Lab at the University of Lugano won a pattern recognition contest by outperforming both competing software systems and a human expert in identifying images in a database of German traffic signs.
The winning program accurately identified 99.46 percent of the images in a set of 50,000; the top score in a group of 32 human participants was 99.22 percent, and the average for the humans was 98.84 percent.
This summer, Jeff Dean, a Google technical fellow, and Andrew Y. Ng, a Stanford computer scientist, programmed a cluster of 16,000 computers to train itself to automatically recognize images in a library of 14 million pictures of 20,000 different objects. Although the accuracy rate was low — 15.8 percent — the system did 70 percent better than the most advanced previous one.
One of the most striking aspects of the research led by Dr. Hinton is that it has taken place largely without the patent restrictions and bitter infighting over intellectual property that characterize high-technology fields.
“We decided early on not to make money out of this, but just to sort of spread it to infect everybody,” he said. “These companies are terribly pleased with this.”
Referring to the rapid deep-learning advances made possible by greater computing power, and especially the rise of graphics processors, he added:
“The point about this approach is that it scales beautifully. Basically you just need to keep making it bigger and faster, and it will get better. There’s no looking back now.”

"Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by inf

Led by Larry Cartwright
Real-World Course Leaps into Muck of Construction
Seniors in engineering and other studies prepare for careers in practical, hands-on projects that benefit the campus.
Text by Ann Curran, Photos by Bill Redic and Glenn Brookes

You can't miss Larry Cartwright on a construction site. At 6 foot 6 and 300 pounds, he towers above his students, all dressed in white hard hats. Now in his 15th year as teacher in the enormously practical Design and Construction course, Cartwright (E'76, '87) has taken his students from early non-glamorous "pure engineering" jobs, such as building cleaning tanks and retaining walls, to constructing decks, parklets and amphitheaters that clearly contribute to the ambience of outdoor life on campus.
This year's project—a memorial to the late professor and Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon—just started, like Cartwright's class, on Jan. 14.
"I have a real eclectic group," Cartwright says, at the Baker Hall site as students hammer together wooden forms in preparation for a cement pour. Lapsing into engineering college shorthand, he says, "I have 18 civils, three mechanical engineering, one electrical engineering, one materials scientist, two sculptors, one architect.... I actually recruited people from Fine Arts."
All students take part in both the design and construction phases in this very popular course.
"The design crew had an architect, three civils, a mechanical, an electrical and a sculpture student," Cartwright notes. "I force them to work together. I want them to get used to working with different disciplines because that's what they're going to do for the rest of their lives."
The completed Simon Memorial will have a slightly subterranean feel with a circular concrete structure with cantilevered seats. A 50-foot band of granite with three right angles will display the following statement by Dr. Simon: "Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn."

It's an eye opener Herbert A. Simon Memorial-2002 "I really like this course. It's a lot of fun. It's not your typical class because you actually get to design something. There's not a set class period when you have to go to a lecture. It's pretty much student-run. Larry does a lot of the advising. Everything that we use has already been taught to us. We apply it. A lot of us don't know that much about construction. It's an eye opener." Owen Silbaugh E'02 Paul C. Rizzo Associates, Columbia, S.C. "I love this course. I've been waiting all my college career to take it. [I've learned] so much about construction. Just so many little things that you never learn in a class. When we broke ground, we ran into so many different types of pipes, all those things that weren't on the map. They tell you in class, oh, you'll be surprised what you find when you dig, but when you really break gas lines because they're not on the map, that's when you really learn. And I didn't know anything about forms. I just knew they were pieces of wood that you poured concrete in but didn't know about all the stiffeners and bracers. I learned so much." Matt Coelho E'02 "[This] is probably the best class I've ever taken. [I've learned] a lot of stuff about how to take a project and put it in a real-world setting. Realizing a lot of the principles and stuff that we've been learning in our courses in the last few years isn't maybe the most important thing. The most important thing is being able to think and to use it. I like the fact that there's a lot of responsibility on us in the project. If we don't show up or if we don't get something done, then we're in trouble." Stacie Hogya E'02, Engineering Consultant Duggan & Rhodes LLC, Pittsburgh

Learning what you can't teach in the classroom
What do students learn in this course, which began with a suggestion from Chris T. Hendrickson, head of Civil and Environmental Engineering? "The best-laid plans go asunder," responds Cartwright, who has taught at Carnegie Mellon for 23 years on the lecture rather than tenure track for faculty whose primary interest is teaching. The Design and Construction course is "diametrically opposed" to Cartwright's own experience as an engineering student at Carnegie Mellon. "There is so much practical. Just everything," he says. "How to schedule, how to use tools, how to work with people. Just everything you can't teach in a classroom. Lots of the technical parts, too, because the students have to design all this." And, he adds, the projects "are really designed well. In fact, they're over-designed [lots of detail on what to do] because I have to allow for the fact that most of these kids are unskilled. While they are almost engineers, some of them have never used an electric drill before. I have to bring them up on the learning curve."
Cartwright, who first worked in construction himself at 16 in his father's firm, tries to pick projects that use the background students are learning in their core courses. He gets lots of projects suggested—often for work in somebody's backyard. But, he says, "the groups are not just builders. They're engineers and designers. I'm not going to put sidewalks in for anyone. Anyone can do that. I take things that will challenge."
The Class of 1998's Doherty Stairs remains Cartwright's most challenging and favorite project. And he did it as a favor to his friend Joe Mannino, associate professor of art. Mannino apparently pointed out to Cartwright all the arts students scampering up the hillside from the studios in the subbasements of Doherty Hall to The Cut. That's a 44-foot ascent, and there was no convenient outdoor way to get up.

Teacher wears a hard hat Doherty Stairs-1998 "Even if it's just a bunch of students digging with shovels, Larry [Cartwright] is always looking to teach and provide real-world know-how. It's always a test, except this time the teacher's wearing a hard-hat. It's extremely helpful for those who go into design or construction because it shows the critical link between the two by requiring students to participate in both. There was always the opportunity to step up, take on more responsibility and enhance the final product. Even if students choose different career paths than design/construction, they learn more about responsibility in group settings and have a sense of pride knowing that they left a permanent fixture at an important place in their lives. "I'm proud of what my class accomplished and the link it provides to the lower campus. It was satisfying to build something that was tucked away on campus, that is almost a part of the land winding its way through the trees. "I gained more insight into my responsibility and accountability as part of a group and the effect of my actions. [I learned that] just because you can design it doesn't mean you can build it. I increased my confidence in my own abilities to design, deal with quickly changing parameters and take charge. I learned to deal with real-life pressures like budget concerns, timelines and public safety." Tony Ream E'98, Structural Engineer HDR Engineering Inc., Pittsburgh

"I went to [campus architect] Paul Tellers," Cartwright recalls, "and I said, 'Paul, I'm going to build some steps for the hillside. You should pay for them.'"
That project ran beyond commencement and through June because of a rainy April.
"We worked in the rain, but it was really inefficient," Cartwright says. "I must have fallen 200 times on the hillside."
The steepness of the hillside meant the students had to use a series of ropes to pull themselves up. It also meant the job required switchbacks—zigzag changes in direction—in the stairs. With the staggered landings and changes in direction, you can climb the hill quickly without tiring. "The kids designed it such that they did not remove a single tree," Cartwright points out.
Cartwright is proud of the expensive treads on the stairs. They have openings that snow can fall or melt through in the winter. In addition, steel points, about a half inch high, project from the steps, providing a good grip againstfootwear.
Making campus inviting
At first, people around campus hesitated about funding student projects. But, says Cartwright, "after a few years, they realized, 'Gee, this is a pretty good product.' And, 'Gee, it's really cheap.'" While he had to lean on his friend "Red" Whittaker (E'75), the Fredkin research professor in the Robotics Institute, to fund the first project, nowadays there's a queue of projects waiting.

My first interdisciplinary project Amphitheater-2000 "Design and Construction was, by far, the best course I took at Carnegie Mellon. It combined book knowledge from four years of classes, a tremendous amount of teamwork and hands-on work. The class learned to work with students of different disciplines including art majors, architects and engineers. This was my first exposure to a true interdisciplinary project. "Larry emphasized the importance of hard work and teamwork. He taught us what it takes to work on a complex project. I learned how a designer must take into consideration every angle of every form so that it is still constructible. I learned how a project manager must keep the entire project team together as a cohesive group. The hands-on experience of making forms, bending REBAR [steel reinforcing bars], finishing concrete and utilizing the final product has been an invaluable experience for me. Being employed in a construction field, I use the practicality of the course every day. The vigorous time frame imposed by a semester class is a very realistic scenario." Kendra Grompone E'00, Lead Engineer, Design-Build Public Service Electric & Gas Company, Newark, N.J. "I looked forward to the class throughout my first three years and couldn't wait to have the opportunity to contribute to the built environment at Carnegie Mellon. We got to see our project from start to finish. Usually, you only get to play one role, but we went all the way from developing a concept to enjoying a finished product. The only things I would change about the experience are the same things I would change about construction projects I've been involved in since college. Engineers working with contractors know the frustrations of ignored drawings and having to stick to schedules despite mistakes, and contractors know the frustrations of unclear designs and changes that slow the schedule. I learned how to work with other players in a construction project (architects, engineers and contractors) and the importance of considering how something is going to be built in addition to what it's supposed to look like when it's done." Erin Rockwell E'00, Engineer Building Technology Division, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc., Consulting Engineers, Arlington, Mass.

Cartwright not only teaches the class and oversees the construction, he goes out on campus and gets a client and cash for the projects. For this year's project, he approached the Faculty Senate. They agreed to help, and, Cartwright says, "I strong-armed Jeff Bolton [then vice president for business and planning and chief financial officer] to pay for the rest." This year's project will cost $32,000. Over the years, Cartwright estimates, projects have cost a total of $250,000. He believes that if the university had hired outside architects, engineers and construction companies to do the same projects, it would have cost $1 million.
While Campus Architect Tellers says he's not always sure of what's going to be built because of the time constraints of the course and Cartwright's pedagogical objectives that often include concrete and wood, "we have always hammered out an agreement."

It was more fun than work Scotty's Corner-1999 "Design and Construction was the course I enjoyed the most. It took a lot of time and effort but was well worth the long hours and labor. To be so heavily involved in the direction of the course and project is something that you just don't get every day at any institution. The course was so well thought-out and planned that it made you look forward to having class and working. It was more fun than work, which is a rarity these days. "Everything I got from the Design and Construction course I use every day in my job. Look-ahead planning, sequence of work, lean construction, day-to-day operations of a project are things I deal with on a daily basis. Physically performing all of the work also gave me an appreciation of what the field labor forces actually go through." Jeff Poore E'99, Project Manager Southland Industries Washington, D.C.

The projects, created largely by graduating senior engineers, have, Tellers notes, increased the outdoor social and meeting spaces on campus, making it more pedestrian friendly in keeping with the university's master plan. That plan, which looks more than 20 years ahead, calls for more of the open green spaces recommended by the original campus architect Henry Hornbostel. Tellers is particularly impressed with the Amphitheater between Doherty Hall and the Purnell Center for the Arts. Part of it looks out over the trees on the hill; part looks up to an area with seating at various heights. This project also contains some whimsical animal sculptures by William Kofmehl, later to become legendary on campus and beyond as "Lobster Boy."
Most reactions to the projects are generally good. But "not everything we do is appreciated," admits Cartwright. "There's always two percent naysayers that pick it apart. I just basically try to be patient" and refrain from obscenities, he says. "I've had at least one heart attack [in 1993] over this course," Cartwright says, mentioning his 70-, 80-, 90-hour workweeks. And there was a second minor one. He doesn't usually join in the physical work of the projects now. But he's certainly there directing every minute. "Everyone worries about me," he says. "The object is to get the project done and keep me alive."

Bonding experience Doherty Pavilion-2001 "We've all heard horror stories from past seniors, but in the end Design and Construction was a great experience. It was hard work, but we learned so much about actually building something rather than just drawing it on paper. It was a huge bonding experience for our class. It didn't seem so much like work as it did like just hanging out and having a good time. When it was finished, it was such a good feeling to sit back and think I helped to build that. "If I could change anything [about the experience], it would be that I would have gotten even more involved and learned as much as I could have. It's a very unique class and a unique opportunity to learn things outside of a classroom. I think the skills I use most are just the general communication and teamwork skills that I developed while in Larry's class." Heather Blair E'01, Civil Associate I Michael Baker Jr. Inc., Coraopolis, Pa.

Perhaps the clearest salute to the student projects comes from the people on campus. They eat lunch, sip soda, cram for exams at Scotty's Corner, a seven-level concrete and brick hangout that meanders down the hillside to a below-grade doorway to Doherty Hall. They hang around at the Amphitheater chatting with friends. They lead their favorite guy or gal down to a semiprivate leafy landing with a built-in bench on the Doherty Stairs. They rock gently, learning to relax from learning, at the world's most well-supported swings in the Doherty Pavilion. Yep, as their teacher might say, those kids do all right.
More: www.cit.cmu.edu/ugweb/e_ugweb_proj.html

Larry Cartwright in a nutshell Engineering students expect to enjoy a Larry Cartwright course, and they learn from it. Besides the Design and Construction course that has resulted in engineers with a firm grasp on reality, not to mention the addition of so many cozy corners on campus, the professor is known for his Civil and Environmental Engineering Design course, which he teaches with other faculty. Besides three "serious" projects per course, the class is remembered by most for the fourth "goofy" project, as Cartwright terms it. Over the years, students have engineered a Rube Iceberg (a la Rube Goldberg) Pie Delivery System. It involved a moving ball, a toy on a track, a bowling ball, an ice bridge, a boxing glove, a torch, a string and a weight. Bottom line: Cartwright repeatedly took a pie in the face. In another project, Mobile Cow Tossing, Cartwright dressed in a black-and-white hard hat with horns. On his Holstein-patterned chest hung pink balloon udders. For this project, students built a trebuchet, or catapult, used in the 15th century to toss dead cows into castle grounds to spread disease. The assignment included placing the catapult on a floating structure and launching a 20-pound cow some 45 yards. Here's what Cartwright's former students say about him: "Larry Cartwright is hands down the best teacher I have ever had and one of the best people I have ever known. He is strict and his classes are tough, but he teaches you to take pride in your work and gives you a great sense of worth."—Jeff Poore E'99 "He's great."—Owen Silbaugh E'02; "Influential."—Tony Ream E'98; "Wholeheartedly committed to Carnegie Mellon and his students."—Erin Rockwell E'00; "Insightful." —Heather Blair E'01; "Supportive."—Mary Wall E'98 "He's big. And he knows a lot. I can't think of a word that describes someone who knows everything about everything because that's about it."—Matt Coelho E'02 "He treats us with more respect than any faculty has ever treated a group of students. He has a lot of faith in our ability and wants us to take away the most we can from this course or any course I've had with him."—Stacie Hogya E'02 "For four years, Larry Cartwright was a teacher, a mentor and a friend to all the students in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He always had confidence in us, believed in us and, most importantly, helped us to become mature, competent engineers. Larry brought a practical and real-world approach to engineering, and I think that makes any Carnegie Mellon student fortunate enough to have been taught by him a better engineer. I'd just have to describe him as 'the best.'"—Kendra Grompone E'00

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Features, Fall 2002 • Off-campus Ventures Courses Take Students Into Community Service • East Meets West Tongue Tells Health Tales • Speak softly, carry a giant carrot President Jared Cohon Favors Persuasion over Issuing Orders • Led by Larry Cartwright Real-World Course Leaps into Muck of Construction News, Fall 2002 • Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge addresses graduates • Cancer research project launched • Melissa Martin scores with first film • Joe Manganiello Bullies Spider-Man • Blowing our own horn • Greenhouse grows • Higher education turns to wind power • Lobster Boy William Kofmehl scuttles housing project • Faculty, students honored • Astronaut speaks at Homecoming • Doctoral programs ranked • Faculty retire • Carroll Gantz, inventor of the Dustbuster, is back to boats  2009.4.8 445 Herber A. Simon 說法 學習皆繫於學生之所思所為 老師頂多能稍為影響而已"Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn." 圖片位於：www.cmu.edu/magazine/02fall/lcartwright.html

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人工科學通識 The Sciences of the Artificial

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The Sciences of the Artificial- 3rd Edition [Paperback]

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