I have had many and quite diverse connections to the Center over the years, so I hope I will be excused for the egocentricity of emphasizing the memories that have come to me directly through my own eyes and relationships.…
I have had many and quite diverse connections to the Center over the years, so I hope I will be excused for the egocentricity of emphasizing the memories that have come to me directly through my own eyes and relationships.…
CASBS encouraged us to come with fellowships, so I found it convenient to have Guggenheim help that year. I commuted to the Center from Berkeley, since I had young children, but sometimes spent the night in my study or in…
Having asked the approximately 1500 living Fellows of CASBS to write for the web site at the time of the 60th birthday of the Center and having received about 30 wonderful responses, I thought it would only be fit and…
My most vivid memories of the years I was fortunate enough to have a fellowship at CASBS in the late 70s, mid-80s and 2004-5 are organized around the flow of each day, so perfectly attuned to that incomparably restful and…
The Scholars’ Paradise, indeed. While there are other paradises for scholars, the Center was/is truly so, enabling us fellows to pursue our research without the intensity of academic politics. It was in large part thanks to Director Gardner Lindze and…
I would like at least that my own intellectual activity should not make things worse or more dangerous, and, preferably, that it would make things by a tiny margin a little bit better, a little bit clearer, a little bit…
Like almost every other day at a few minutes after noon, I walked into the bright sun carrying my tray from the lunchroom. Squinting (I wore no glasses of any kind in 1980 and 1981), I looked to see if…
I was fortunate to spend the 1984-1985 year at the center. I was just 43 years old and at a very important point in my career. At Minnesota we had started one of the most ambitious longitudinal studies of development…
I was five years beyond graduating with a Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) and was in awe of being one of the Fellows at the Center, interacting with psychologists I held in very high regard (Lee Cronbach, Gardner Lindsey, Henry Riecken, Roger…
My year at CASBS was 1979-80, as a member of the group assembled by Stanford Professor John McCarthy, founding father of Artificial Intelligence (and coiner of the term), to spend the year working on Artificial Intelligence and philosophy. That year…