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Tractatus Academic-Capitalismus

An Academic Capitalist savors his unfashionable pursuits.

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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men

Sheldon Pollock’s magisterial work of scholarship, a winner of The Coomaraswamy Book Prize,…

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An Amazing Week! Schwab Fellows, Combating Anti-vax, CMU IFF, Lorentz Transformation

I suppose this is my version of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight….

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The Next Quantum Revolution?

Had a great trip to the SF area! The weather was perfect….

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Beyond OrganJet: Nudge Videos to Increase Organ and Tissue Consent from Legal Next-of-Kin

In 2010, after a dinner conversation with Baris Ata, I came up with…

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Looking Back: October 7, 2017

It was so exciting to receive a box (on February 9th, 2017)…

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2020 Tayur Prize

A year ago (in What would Steve Jobs do?) I challenged IIT-Madras…

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The Zoom Where It Happens!

Obviously, this is a riff on my favorite Hamilton song The Room…

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“These aren’t engineers you can just replace”

A cinephile (and NAE member!) muses at his status.

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Georgia On My Mind (What a Feeling!)

After my Zoom evening class in Service Management, I was savoring a…

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MBA Teaching in the Time of COVID19

Mini 2 teaching began last week. I teach two MBA courses, each…

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Trillion Dollars of Inventory

On September 13th, I received this email from Mark Lewis (Director, Cornell…

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Tractatus Academic-Capitalismus

An Academic Capitalist savors his unfashionable pursuits.

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Quantum Computing v2.0

This morning, as I was prepping for my class on Quantum Integer…

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Pocket Quantum Computers

A cinephile imagines a pocket quantum computer.

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Roll Over Turing

An enjoyable documentary (from 1987) is Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll celebrating…

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