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Owen J. Gingerich, professor of astronomy and the history of science, says that the Coop is often blameless when books come in late...
During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...truly as serious about winning the drug war as it was about winning World War II, Harvard should make an equally determined effort to help remove drugs from American cities. Members of the Kennedy School brain trust such as Lecturer in Public Policy Mark A. R. Kleiman and Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Mark H. Moore have already contributed to the federal government's drug policies...
...Japanese, however, showed no such resistance, perhaps because their culture is not so deeply rooted in scientific rationalism. Says Bart Kosko, a Zadeh protege and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California: "Fuzziness begins where Western logic ends." In the early '80s several Japanese firms plunged enthusiastically into fuzzy research. By 1985 Hitachi had installed the technology's most celebrated showpiece: a subway system in Sendai, about 200 miles north of Tokyo, that is operated by a fuzzy computer. Not only does it give an astonishingly smooth ride (passengers do not need to hang...
...obscure professor's oddball approach to computer science, long neglected in the U.S., struck a cultural chord in Japan and is beginning...