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...Panofsky, who learned to deal in large figures as head of Stanford's $100 million linear accelerator, believes that lavish funds expended on high-energy physics, which pries into the inner nature of matter, and on cosmology, which tries to understand the universe, will pay higher eventual returns than any applied research. "We cannot afford to be ignorant," he says, "of the most fundamental type of structure on which everything else depends...
...second level would be in constructing a mathematics based course in General Education suitable for those with four years of secondary school mathematics, but viewed as a terminal course. This would provide limited work in analytic geometry, elementary calculus, probability, linear equations and linear programming...
...factories that run themselves and managers largely concerned with planning future factories. To manufacture thinkers, Carnegie essentially teaches patterns of behavior-how men act in organizations, the interaction of banking, money and markets with unions, politics and science. To arm themselves for high-level decisions, students study techniques from linear algebra to clinical psychology to computer programming. Along with other required courses, for example, they study "Ideas in the Changing Environment"-how society and business have interacted in important historical periods. First-semester required reading spans 17 books, from Darwin to Freud to Spengler...
...that is, to make "cunning" choices by a form of reasoning rather than computing answers by doggedly calculating all possible alternatives. Using Simon's methods, an M.I.T. researcher has computerized the numerous and subtle judgments required in trust investment. Carnegie claims credit for the first industrial application of linear programming, which has since been used for everything from oil refining to concocting dog food. Oth er research projects range from the psychology of insecure employees to the economics of the U.S. theater...
Among patients treated at some ma jor medical centers with massive doses of radiation, the "fiveyear cure rate" is much higher. At Palo Alto, Radiologist Kaplan's team gives huge doses of radiation from a linear accelerator. Two out of three of their patients live five years or longer, and they are "dying at the same rate as the general population," said Dr. Kaplan...