2019年3月31日 星期日
SAIC's study trip ： Zeitgeist - 100 Years Bauhaus
Zeitgeist - 100 Years Bauhaus
Tentative Dates: July 7 - July 20, 2019
Bauhaus
This study trip offers in 2019 a unique experience -100 Years Bauhaus! In 2019 Germany will be celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, together with partners all over the world. Founded in Weimar in 1919, relocated to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, the school of design only existed for a total of 14 years. Despite this, the influence of the Bauhaus continues right down to the present day all over the world. In this amazing trip we will visit ALL three major sites (Weimar, Dessau, Berlin) of Bauhaus history and more places to experience this legacy first hand.
After starting the class in Munich, Germany, we will travel to Weimar, the birthplace of the Weimar Republic and the foundation of Walter Gropius’ Bauhaus. The German term Bauhaus—literally "construction house"—was understood as meaning "School of Building", but in spite of its name and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during its first years of existence.
The Bauhaus University Weimar is partner of SAIC where we will engage in workshops and visits to local centenary museum exhibitions, and spend time with students and faculty of the Bauhaus experiencing it's rich and amazingly influential history. Next stop is Dessau, the second site of the historical Bauhaus. In Dessau we will see Gropius' famous facilities and additional centenary exhibitions and experience the Bauhaus history first hand because we will stay on the Bauhaus Campus in the original building. Finally we will travel to Berlin, where participants will work in a studio in Berlin Mitte, see yet more exciting and unique exhibitions regarding the Bauhaus, and prepare an exhibition themselves responding to the trip and concluding this adventure.
Credits: 3 or 6 credits STUDIO (4000-level)
Instructors:
Oliver Sann, Photography
Beate Geissler, Art Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
Program fee: Approx. $2,500 (including transport during the program, accommodation and some meals; not including airfare).
PLUS Tuition cost per credit:
Undergraduate—$1,613 per credit hour;
Graduate—$1,665 per credit hour.
Airfare: Budget at least $1,400 for airfare if flying from Chicago. (Note this is only an estimated figure. Actual fare will depend on many variables including airline, number of stopovers, exchange rate fluctuations, ports of departure and return, and date of ticket purchase).
Online registration begins: March 13, 2019
Deposit due at registration: $525
Information sessions:
Wednesday, February 13, 12:10-12:50 p.m., MacLean room 707
Wednesday, February 27, 4:15-5:15 p.m., MacLean room 111
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.
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2019年3月30日 星期六
Egon Balas 1922~2019, Operations Research Pioneer
Born: June 7, 1922, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Died: March 18, 2019
Egon Balas, Operations Research Pioneer: Research Retrospective
Egon Balas was jailed in Romania for suggesting Marxism wasn’t perfect. He won redemption by finding more efficient ways to harvest timber.
日本考慮明令禁止兒童體罰 Japan plans to ban parents from physically punishing children
A series of recent fatal child abuse cases in Japan have prompted law revisions to explicitly ban corporal punishment by parents.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/…/nh…/backstories/physicalpunishment/
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/…/nh…/backstories/physicalpunishment/
AI人才可以力拚嗎？日本：年間25万人育成する戦略案；台灣Google 2018年訓練5000人；中國核准35所大學設人工智能系
Google announced today it will expand its office space in Taiwan with a new complex in Banqiao District, New Taipei City. The space will be in Taipei Far Eastern Telecom Park, about a 20-minute drive away from its offices in Taipei 101. Google currently has 2,000 employees in the country and plans to hire several hundred more, with an emphasis on hiring more women, said Rick Osterloh, Google’s senior vice president of hardware, during a press conference today.
The complex will also play an important role in Google’s Intelligent Taiwan project, which it announced in May 2018. Last year, the project trained about 5,000 students in AI technology and 50,000 digital marketers.
In the wake of Project Dragonfly, Google’s controversial project to build a censored version of its search engine for China, close attention will be paid to what the company does in Taiwan and its other hubs in Asia. Google reportedly halted Dragonfly last year, before employees told The Intercept that they had seen evidence of continued work on the project. A Google spokesperson said there was no link between those issues and the expansion of its Taiwan offices.
After Google completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of a large part of HTC’s smartphone unit at the beginning of 2018, Taiwan became its biggest Asian engineering hub. Google pulled out of China in 2010, citing censorship issues, and the revelation of Project Dragonfly, an apparent reversal on its earlier stance, was met with controversy internally by Google employees. The company’s potential re-launch in China was also one of the main topics of questioning during CEO Sundar Pichai’s House Judiciary committee hearing in December.
13 hours ago - 恐怕未必。為大力發展AI產業，中國教育部近日公布2018年度普通高等學校本科專業備案和審批結果，共有35所大學成為首批獲准設立人工智能系。
日本のデータサイエンティストの転職時最高額年収は1200万円と、中国やシンガポール以下との調査も。人工知能（AI）を使いこなす人材を年間25万人育成する戦略案の課題を考えます。（会員向け記事です。登録無料）
2019年3月27日 星期三
反對陽明大學與交通大學合併 簡以嘉／ 醫師、陽明校友總會理事
瀕危的唯一國立醫大
◎簡以嘉／ 醫師、陽明校友總會理事（台北市）
◎簡以嘉／ 醫師、陽明校友總會理事（台北市）
陽明醫學院早年以培養公費醫師，普及基層醫療為宗旨，八十三年改制大學，四十年來已發展為一完整之醫學大學。校友在衛福部所屬醫院，在退輔會榮民總醫院，與基層醫療體系嶄露頭角，為我國公衛及醫療體系做出貢獻。郭校長上任後正應將陽明推向另一高峰才是，不想此時進行的卻是引起重大爭議之併校議題，原因令人費解；只聽聞郭校長提到，雖無近憂，但有遠慮，此說法實無法說服眾多校友。陽明發展之願景為何，若只剩下併校一途，實為可悲。
有人提到，現代是人工智慧時代，應與理工學院合併，方便進一步研發。事實上，智慧醫療與生物科技的研發，其精髓在醫學相關人才，我們才是主體。陽明大學可以和各大學理工學院合作，也可以和廣達鴻海等科技大廠合作研發新醫療應用儀器，不與交大合併亦可達目的，且更保有主導權。
也有人說，因少子化，大學合併是時勢所趨，但陽明與交通大學同為頂大，招生並沒有困難；合併後，少掉一所頂尖大學，並不划算，亦不合理；此應非國家整體規劃之發展政策。
況且，陽明大學為國內唯一國立醫學大學，更應保有其獨特性；國家資源應適時挹注，似沒有必要改為綜合大學，很多校友和我一樣，反對陽明大學與交通大學合併。
2019年3月23日 星期六
City Colleges of Chicago 芝加哥城市學院
美国高等教育危机：芝加哥社区大学的经验
在美国四年制大学日益让普通学生难以企及之际，
| City Colleges of Chicago | |
|---|---|
| 校訓 | Education that Works |
| 創建時間 | 1911年 |
| 學校類型 | 社區學院 |
| 校監 | Juan Salgado |
| 校址 | 美國伊利諾伊州芝加哥 |
| 校區 | 都市 |
| 網站 | www.ccc.edu |
芝加哥城市學院（City Colleges of Chicago）是為美國伊利諾伊州芝加哥地區居民提供教育的一個社區學院系統，包含七所社區學院和六所教育中心。其提供的教育項目包括二年制大專、七週制職業教育和以英語為第二語言或外語課程。
參考文獻[編輯]
- ^ "Procurement FAQs 網際網路檔案館的存檔，存檔日期2011-11-01.". City Colleges of Chicago. Retrieved on December 14, 2011. "District Office 226 W. Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL 60606"
- ^ "About City Colleges". City Colleges of Chicago. Retrieved on September 11, 2012.
外部連結[編輯]
2019年3月17日 星期日
台灣太陽花世代的政治新力量
2014年3月，台北市青島東路上，抗議馬英九政府與中國簽訂《海峽兩岸服務貿易協議》的群眾。 Amy Chang Chien
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• “我們這種怪咖”：台灣太陽花世代的政治新力量
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五年前的3月18日，一群抗議馬英九政府與中國簽訂《海峽兩岸服務貿易協議》的台灣學生“攻占”立法院，揭開了“太陽花運動”的序幕。現任台北市議員苗博雅以社運工作者的身份參與了運動，如今的她走入體制，成為“太陽花世代”從政的青年之一。
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運動爆發五週年之際，現年32歲的苗博雅在台北接受了紐約時報中文網的專訪 。在她來看，自己和一些議會裡的新鮮血液有點像是政壇裡的“怪咖”。她公開出櫃、為同性婚姻平權議題高聲疾呼。她也從不諱言自己對於統獨的看法，還沒上任就穿著台灣T卹參加兩岸交流活動。
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當被問及她所屬的社會民主黨等小政黨在台灣政壇的生存現況，苗博雅指出：潮水退了，就知道誰的褲子被沖走了。那麼運動的激情沉澱後，台灣民眾對於中國的焦慮消失了嗎？她說，台灣人對中國因素的焦慮一直在，中國勢必會成為明年台灣總統大選中一再被討論的話題。
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2019年3月14日 星期四
人人都可得A：The way American colleges grade students is extraordinarily silly
參考結語的討論
52:03
266 Profound Knowledge: A Framework for Change 2008-Oct-16 William W. Scherkenbach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZlXUYg-bQ&t=2679s
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The grading system in American universities penalises students who challenge themselves. What will it take to make it fairer? From The Economist’s 1843 magazine
1843MAGAZINE.COM
The way American colleges grade students is extraordinarily silly
From the archive
2019年3月13日 星期三
經濟學系走火入魔？哈佛大學經濟學系迷途知返，多開"實用"導論課
The Economics Department is working to create more entry-level courses focused on the applications — as opposed to theory — of economics in an effort to attract more freshmen and sophomores, according to Department Chair Jeremy C. Stein. http://ow.ly/nY0330o0BoJ
2019年3月1日 星期五
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