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Abstract. Harvard’s evolution from a Brahmin to a meritocratic university involved alterations in its governance as well as the makeup of its students and faculty. The cozy, we-happy-few atmosphere of the past began to give way to more professional administration.
Sep 6, 2001 · Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one.
Clinical Medicine Acute Medicine. Allergy. Cardiovascular Medicine. Clinical Genetics ... Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University (New York, 2001;
Making Harvard Modern, a book by Morton and Phyllis Keller (2001) about the transformation of Harvard from a Brahmin to a meritocratic institution, offers a telling silence in this respect:...
Oct 26, 2020 · “Part of the appeal of algorithmic decision-making is that it seems to offer an objective way of overcoming human subjectivity, bias, and prejudice,” said political philosopher Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government. “But we are discovering that many of the algorithms that decide who should get parole, for example, or who should be presented with employment ...
In the 1950s, after systematically going through hundreds of CPCs published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Robert Ledley and Lee Lusted — arguably the founders of medical AI — described a process by which the new fields of epidemiology and biostatistics would soon replace traditional clinical reasoning.
Nov 11, 2020 · In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Isaac Kohane, head of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, and his co-authors say that AI will indeed make it possible to bring all medical knowledge to bear in service of any case.
