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研究：汉语使人更聪明更宽容zz

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:22:47 +0800

（记者童昕综合报导）近来陆续出现一些研究结果，认为中国人的大脑结构比西方人更发达与汉语有关。拼音文字只使用左脑，而汉语则左右脑同时使用，实验证明有汉语文化背景的国家普遍智商高于周边地区。而且右脑发达还能使人达到性格开朗，心胸宽广，心平气和，更能宽容别人。
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论文出了大问题

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:17:53 +0800

太郁闷了，submit完，deadline都过了两天了。居然发现几乎所有的参考文献编号和正文出现的引用都不一致。应该是因为最后提交的版本忘记bibtex的缘故。kao。这年头，为什么就没人把bibtex和latex整合到一起呢。

55，到时候如果被拒，不会是因为这个原因吧？可以想象reviewer顺着正文中的编号找到的文献一看完全文不对题，于是一怒，什么破paper，就扔了。那才叫欲哭无泪。只好以后引以为鉴了。也权当提醒大家一下，submit paper时多多小心这个问题啊。

朱熹平、曹怀东完证世界级数学难题庞加莱猜想

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:11:56 +0800

　　新华社北京6月3日电（记者　李斌）国际数学界关注上百年的重大难题――庞加莱猜想，近日被科学家完全破解。哈佛大学教授、著名数学家、菲尔兹奖得主丘成桐3日在中国科学院晨兴数学研究中心宣布，在美、俄等国科学家的工作基础上，中山大学朱熹平教授（查看个人简介）和旅美数学家、清华大学兼职教授曹怀东已经彻底证明了这一猜想。

中山大学朱熹平教授资料图片（图片来源：广州日报）

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Research犹如登山

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:18:00 +0800

from Zhang-Zi's Blog:

http://zhiqiang.org/blog/303.html

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Richard Hamming - You and Your Research

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:53:09 +0800

Transcription of the
Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar
7 March 1986

J. F. Kaiser
Bell Communications Research
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910
jfk@bellcore.com

At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr. Richard W. Hamming, a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a retired Bell Labs scientist, gave a very interesting and stimulating talk, `You and Your Research' to an overflow audience of some 200 Bellcore staff members and visitors at the Morris Research and Engineering Center on March 7, 1986. This talk centered on Hamming's observations and research on the question ``Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?'' From his more than forty years of experience, thirty of which were at Bell Laboratories, he has made a number of direct observations, asked very pointed questions of scientists about what, how, and why they did things, studied the lives of great scientists and great contributions, and has done introspection and studied theories of creativity. The talk is about what he has learned in terms of the properties of the individual scientists, their abilities, traits, working habits, attitudes, and philosophy.

In order to make the information in the talk more widely available, the tape recording that was made of that talk was carefully transcribed. This transcription includes the discussions which followed in the question and answer period. As with any talk, the transcribed version suffers from translation as all the inflections of voice and the gestures of the speaker are lost; one must listen to the tape recording to recapture that part of the presentation. While the recording of Richard Hamming's talk was completely intelligible, that of some of the questioner's remarks were not. Where the tape recording was not intelligible I have added in parentheses my impression of the questioner's remarks. Where there was a question and I could identify the questioner, I have checked with each to ensure the accuracy of my interpretation of their remarks.

INTRODUCTION OF DR. RICHARD W. HAMMING

As a speaker in the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Series, Dr. Richard W. Hamming of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, was introduced by Alan G. Chynoweth, Vice President, Applied Research, Bell Communications Research.

Alan G. Chynoweth: Greetings colleagues, and also to many of our former colleagues from Bell Labs who, I understand, are here to be with us today on what I regard as a particularly felicitous occasion. It gives me very great pleasure indeed to introduce to you my old friend and colleague from many many years back, Richard Hamming, or Dick Hamming as he has always been know to all of us.

Dick is one of the all time greats in the mathematics and computer science arenas, as I'm sure the audience here does not need reminding. He received his early education at the Universities of Chicago and Nebraska, and got his Ph.D. at Illinois; he then joined the Los Alamos project during the war. Afterwards, in 1946, he joined Bell Labs. And that is, of course, where I met Dick - when I joined Bell Labs in their physics research organization. In those days, we were in the habit of lunching together as a physics group, and for some reason this strange fellow from mathematics was always pleased to join us. We were always happy to have him with us because he brought so many unorthodox ideas and views. Those lunches were stimulating, I can assure you.

While our professional paths have not been very close over the years, nevertheless I've always recognized Dick in the halls of Bell Labs and have always had tremendous admiration for what he was doing. I think the record speaks for itself. It is too long to go through all the details, but let me point out, for example, that he has written seven books and of those seven books which tell of various areas of mathematics and computers and coding and information theory, three are already well into their second edition. That is testimony indeed to the prolific output and the stature of Dick Hamming.

I think I last met him - it must have been about ten years ago - at a rather curious little conference in Dublin, Ireland where we were both speakers. As always, he was tremendously entertaining. Just one more example of the provocative thoughts that he comes up with: I remember him saying, ``There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.'' Well, with Dick Hamming around, we don't need a computer. I think that we are in for an extremely entertaining talk.

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IEEE会议组织流程

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:00:38 +0800

偶然看到了IEEE官方网站上的这份手册：Organizing an IEEE Conference，其中尤其第六部分最值得一看。原来一个Conference的整个过程还真是挺有讲究的。

Advice on Research and Writing

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:59:06 +0800

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/how-to.html

论文生成器

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:04:00 +0800

一个神奇的网站，随机生成计算机科学论文，生成出来的论文还真像那么回事……

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:02:35 +0800

"It has long been known..." <-> I didn't look up the original reference.

"A definite trend is evident..." <-> These data are practically meaningless.

"Of great theoretical and practical importance..." <-> Interesting to me.

"While it has not been possible to provide definite answers to these questions..." <-> This was an unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published.

"Three of the samples were chosen for detailed study." <-> The others made no sense.

"Typical results are shown." <-> The best results are shown.

"The most reliable results are those obtained by Jones." <-> He was my grad assistant.

"It is believed that..." <-> I think.

"It is generally believed that..." <-> A couple of other guys think so, too.

"It is clear that much additional work will be required before a complete understanding of the phenomenon is possible." <-> I don't understand it.

"Correct within an order of magnitude." <-> Wrong.

"It is hoped that this study will stimulate more work in this field." <-> This is a lousy paper, but so are the others in this crummy field.

"Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with the experimental work and to George Frink for valuable discussions." <-> Blotz did the work, and Frink explained to me what it meant.

"A careful analysis of obtainable data..." <-> Three pages of notes were obliterated when I knocked over a glass of beer.

"A statistically oriented projection of the findings..." <-> Wild guess.

"A highly significant area for exploratory study..." <-> A totally useless topic suggested by my committee.

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"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal ideas from two persons is research." -Anonymous

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Researchers in Programming Languages and Compilers

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:05:34 +0800

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mleone/web/language-people.html

计算机科学会议与期刊的等级、影响因子及其他

nospam@example.com (Cody Cai) — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:51:00 +0800