On Ph.D Education and Research (4)- MIT vs. Harvard
I spent almost my entire adult life (9/1950-2/1955, 2/1958-date) in Cambridge, MA and
received my B.S. and M.S. from MIT, and Ph.D from Harvard and taught at the latter
since 1961. The two schools are separated by less than two miles from each other.
Students from each school can take course from the other school and receive credit for
work done in the other school. In science and technology, the two schools have many
cooperative degree programs and colleagues often work together (NOTE: in the medical
science and technology they have a joint Ph.D and M.D. program and its most illustrious
graduate is David Ho, 何大一, the inventor of AIDS cocktail medicine, and foreign
member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)
正是这个纳米梦，推动着他在纳米的世界里不断探索，最终发明了“控制转移碳纳米管阵列技术”，被哈佛大学查尔斯·烈波教授录取为博士研究生，并且获得了全额奖学金。
最初的梦想
高中时的范犇就对化学很感兴趣。一本科普书———《纳米世纪》使他萌发了最初的纳米梦。
刚读高一时，范犇就被选为化学奥赛的种子选手，备战2003年全国化学奥赛。他自学了有机化学、无机化学等大学化学基础课程。经过努力，范犇在竞赛中获得一等奖（第4名），北大和清华同时向他伸出橄榄枝，范犇最
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HOW TO DO RESEARCH 3 – PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
I am most gratified by the response to my two blog articles 'How to Do Research?' and
'More on How to Do Research'. In the space of one week a total of 1500+ persons have
read the articles. In the spirit of practicing what I preach, but at the risk of self-promotion,
let me give you an example on how my recommendation on 'finding a good research
topic' benefited myself. For convenience I repeated the recommendation here:
“GO FIND A REAL WORLD PROBLEM THAT A GROUP OF PEOPLE IS EAGER
TO SOLVE, THAT HAPPENS TO INTEREST YOU FOR WHATEVER REASON,
AND THAT YOU DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO
SOLVE IT BUT NOT A COMMITMENT TO USE TOOLS WITH WHICH YOU
HAPPEN TO BE FAMILIAR' (But you should really read this rule in the context of the
whole article)
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How to do research? And Related Issues of Ph.D Education
'Can you tell me how to do research?',
'Please tell me what topics should I pick to do my ph.d.thesis? '
are two questions I periodically receive from young researchers and students in China.
There are two difficulties associated with answering these two questions.
1. The first question is open-ended. To answer it honestly and accurately will require several hours of explanation. In fact, the process could take several years of face-to-face interaction between an advisor and a ph.d student. This is really what a ph.d. education involves. It is not the number of courses taken or the number of papers published. But something about the quality of and taste in research. I'll have more to say about this point below in connection with trying to answer this first question here .
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我的归国历程
——在“2004年第五届北美留交会”上的演讲
周怀北
女士们、先生们：
早上好！今天我很荣幸有机会在这里给大家讲述自己回国创业两年半的经历
和感受。
我是2002年4月份选择回国创业的，而且是选择全家一起回国，来到中国武
汉大学当教授。回国之前，我把房子和车子都卖掉了。我的夫人很抱怨，因为我
当时在一个非常不错的公司工作，有很多股票，公司的很多人后来发了财。但是
什么事情都不是十全十美的，所谓有得有失。在中国发展的过程中，机遇很重要，
时间很重要。在这两年多的时间里，
创办了一个高科技研发中心和省留学人员创业园，
博士研究生，从事无线通讯和软件工程方面的研发。
我在1990年，也就是14年前，到美国学习、工作的。出国10年之后，我第一
次
一流大学研究晋级两大黄金法则：成名要趁早报告要做好
作者：何毓琦
编者按：哈佛大学 终身教授、美国工程院院士、中国科学院及中国工程院外籍院士何毓琦博士长期从事系统控制科学及工程应用研究，在最优控制、微分对策、团队论、离散事件动态系统和智能系统等方面做出了重大贡献。是动态系统现代控制理论的创导者之一。何毓琦博士长期致力于祖国大陆的科研发展，不但培养了多名中国学生，更在
