不了解美国与吃亏

很多中国人在美国吃亏，也许这与他们不了解美国有关系。就像你和一群人打球，你不知道规则，肯定吃亏。

这几天看李文和写的书My Country Vesus Me. 他说:

"As the judge talked about these things, I realized that I never paid much attention to the differences among the three branches of government, not even when I took the examination to become an American citizen back in 1974."

他说，法官说这些话时（法官把FBI和DOE骂了一顿），才意识到他从未注意过政府各支(所谓三权分立)的区别.

很多中国人来了美国，愿意花时间看Youku上的SB新闻，也不愿意去wikipedia看看美国历史上的事，了解一下这个国家。

至 少我当年决定逃亡美国，是因为我在南邮图书馆看到一本书Government of America，这本书的附录上有美国宪法。我看到宪法的第一句话"We the people"我一拍大腿，这是我要去的地方。这是我第一次看见一个国家的宪法，也是我至今唯一看过的宪法——虽然我知道共匪宪法上全是“中国共产党”或 者加拿大宪法上全是“维多利亚女王陛下”.

很多年后，白宫做个网站叫We the people,用于人民向白宫请愿，比如Obama总统是否见过外星人。这个系统的名字，即源于宪法的首句。

最屌爆之处，这个系统的源码在Github, 以GPL v.2发布 https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petitions/blob/7.x-1.x/README.md#license

膜拜一下两个(德国)学霸

最近的工作和两位学霸的工作有关，太屌爆了，大家一起来膜拜一下。

所谓学霸，就是CV上出现CSAIL, MGH(又叫Harvard Medical School)等ZB地方的人，一般是叫兽。

学霸一： http://www.rad.upenn.edu/sbia/Kilian.Pohl/

2010 -	Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2008-2010	Research Staff Member - IBM Almaden, San Jose, CA
2006-2008	Instructor of Radiology (Junior Faculty) - BWH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2005-2006	Research Fellow - BWH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
2005-2009	Research Affiliate, Postdoctoral Associate - CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA
2001-2005	Research Associate - CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1999-2001	Training Manager - Propack Data, Cary, NC
1999	M.Sc. (Mathematics) - University Karlsruhe(TH) (Germany)

学霸二： http://reuter.mit.edu/
这位屌爆了，域名是last_name.mit.edu

Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Research: Computational Neuroimaging, Registration, Unbiased Longitudinal Image Processing

Jan. 2010 - present: Faculty Assistant in Neuroscience (MGH), Instructor in Neurology (HMS)

Jan. 2010 - present: Faculty, Center for Neuroimaging of Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease

Feb. 2009: Most cited paper award of CAD Journal for 'ShapeDNA' paper

Aug. 2008 - present: Research Affiliate, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Aug. 2008 - Dec. 2009: Research Fellow in Neurology (HMS/MGH)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research: Geometry Processing, Spectral Shape Analysis, Solution of Multinomial Systems

Sep. 2008 - present: Research Affiliate (MechEng and CSAIL)

Sep. 2006 - Aug. 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow (supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

Research Stay (Dec 2007) University Konstanz, Germany, Multimedia Signal Processing Group

Research Stay (Oct 2007) IMATI, Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Genova, Italy

Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Research: Spectral Shape Analysis, Database Retrieval, FEM, Fractal Dimension

October 2006: Research Prize for outstanding scientific accomplishments (Leibniz University)

2001 - 2006: Research Member ('Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter')
at the WelfenLab, Institute of Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction
- Teaching (Comp. Graphics, Geom. Modeling, practical CG Courses, Data Structures and Algorithmgs)
- Supervision of junior research assistants and Bachelor, Master, Junior and Diploma Theses
- Supervision and conception of practical laboratories (C++, OpenGL, etc.)
- Organization of state wide Computer Graphics Competitions (2001-2005)

2005 Ph.D. "Laplace-Beltrami Spectra for Shape Recognition"

2001 "Diplom" (M.Sc), Mathematics and Computer Science (majors), Business Informatics (minor)
- Master thesis: "Spectra of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator for Surfaces"
- Batchelor thesis: "Fractal Dimension of Grayscale Images"

1997 - 2001: Student Research Member

作为科学匠，我们要每天面朝MIT的方向磕5个头。