Promising ideas
The work I am most proud of is not my best-known work. As a graduate student, I was enthralled by a mysterious phenomenon of emergent cell synchrony that …
Category Archives: Opinions
What impedes substantive progress?
It is widely discussed, most prominently by Alberts et al., that the current academic culture is increasingly suppressing the creativity, …
Can mere hype succeed in the long-term ?
Michael I. Jordan, one of the most prominent statisticians of our time, warns that “The overeager adoption of big data …
Tell me about the science, not the prizes!
One might introduce Egas Moniz as the great Nobel laureate and Dmitri Mendeleev as a chemist with few great awards. Much more informatively, however, one should introduce Egas Moniz as an influential protagonist of lobotomy and Dmitri Mendeleev as the co-inventor of the periodic table of elements.
The Best Projects Are Least Obvious
We are fortunate to live in an exciting time. Today, new technologies enable the design and execution of straightforward experiments, …
The mission of MIT
I still remember very clearly the key reason behind my decision to attend MIT about a decade ago. It was …
