CHANGING CHINESE THINKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Thinking about Technology

While many pundits sing the praises of the coming global village, Talbott wants us to examine their unspoken assumptions. Many seem to be saying that simple technological tools can guarantee freedom and privacy, make learning and personal growth easy, and build strong democratic communities. Talbott sees this as wishful thinking—magical, automatic solutions to complex human problems. He sees th...

New thinking about information technology security

This is the last of three related papers exploring how contemporary computer architecture affects security. It brings together the concepts introduced in the earlier papers and presents a generalized approach to protection, isolation, and access control. We call this approach the Generalized Trusted Computing Base. Based upon the “divide and conquer” approach to achieving protection, understand...

Changing Ways of Thinking About Mathematics by Teaching Game Theory

Thinking Differently About Aging: Changing Attitudes Through the Humanities.

Ageism has many cumulative negative health effects, so reducing ageism in college-age youths can have a significant, long-term impact on public health. Reduced ageism decreases the prevalence and severity of many negative health events, such as myocardial infarctions, and can add an average of 7.5 years to the life span. One of the few proven methods for reducing ageist ideation is through part...

Thinking slow about thinking fast

In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman attributes experientially-learned real-world coping skills to an " associative machine " acting on declarative memories of facts and events. While this attribution is probably correct for the unfamiliar types of situations that are the subject of his famous experiments conducted with Amos Tversky, we argue that experientially-learned real-wo...