a view in Beijing of a popular Vietnamese Restaurant
Here are a few things I am reading today! I hope you find it as interesting as I did!
“It is time to rethink how institutions of higher education view their mission so that they can better fulfill their obligation as the major basic research engine in society. It is time that institutions of higher education expect more of their faculty than their being solitary investigators seeking to garner individual credit for the incremental contributions. It is time for universities to recognize that their faculty have roles as members of large, interdisciplinary, malleable, and adaptable teams of scientists and scholars addressing Big Questions and Problems. It is time for institutions of higher education to find ways to build multi-institutions collaborations and consortiums rather than to treat one another as competitors in a zero-sum game. To accomplish these changes, it is time for institutions of higher education to rethink their organization for and support and evaluation of research contributions.”
“Here’s Dennis Crowley’s ideal way to end the day: At 6 p.m., his iPhone alerts him to the evening’s plans. It has already checked his friends’ calendars and knows who’s free tonight, so it suggests a restaurant they’ve all wanted to try. It notes when a table is available and informs him that three other friends are planning to hang out across the street so they can meet up later. And it all will happen—soon, he says—through Foursquare, the location-based mobile application and Web site Crowley co-founded with Naveen Selvadurai last year. “Every day, we tick off another couple of things that get us closer to being able to do that,” says Crowley, 33.”
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