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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.
Meritocracy flourished most luxuriantly in Harvard’s professional schools. The Big Four—the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Law, Medicine, and Business—threw off the constraints of lack of money and student cutbacks imposed by World War II.
What place did Harvard College have in the modern University, with its expansive central administration, research-driven faculty, ambitious and high-powered professional schools? A much more important one than this litany of potential threats might suggest.
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 ...
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...
Apr 21, 2009 · Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University by Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller. REBECCA B. MILLER. First published: 21 April 2009. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2009.00206.x. Read the full text.
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.
