postscript
In the fall of 1992, I graduated from the Institute of Mathematics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Wuhan, teaching the computer science and technology department in China University of Geosciences.
Principles and artificial intelligence courses. About one day in early November, Professor Meng Yongliang, suddenly made a series of questions: "Can you tell me what is calculating science? Is it like this, teaching the teaching and skill training line of computer practical knowledge? What should calculate the scientific introduction? How to properly view the unity of theory and practice in computational science? "Further, he frank:" These questions, I have taught several teachers who calculate scientific majors, they don't seem to say clearly."
Professor Yongliang and I met I met in 1982. He is a geophysician who has worked in the wild in the wild, and has been engaged in geological exploration.
Published the paper in << Earth Physics. 10 years ago, in order to take care of the family, he changed to the school calculation scientific introduction to the positive preparatory school.
Senior language programming and other courses, although he often modestly says "It is still the 'door" ", but he has set a long history of teaching practical experience, but he puts more than a long-term experience of scientists, and These problems raised by practical attitudes
It is worth our contemplation. Honestly, he has never been seriously considered before the question, and even seeing them as a problem. In my understanding, if the teacher can't even answer these questions, what is teaching? Now, Professor Yongliang is correct, and it is necessary to discuss these issues in depth in the University Computer Science Teachers. Since then, I often discuss learning, discuss learning, taking knees, and benefiting good. In our communication, he hopes that I can have the opportunity to systematically giving a teacher in the department to talk about some basic problems of the science, and lead a few more courses, borrowing to cultivate youth teachers. Role. Although, Yongliang Professor's idea has not been achieved, but many of the questions and views have made me know the ideological methods and scientific attitude of one scientist in the field of unfamiliarity. This once again believes that the scientific different subjects are connected to the higher level.
People who have been university have a small experience, the number of cold windows, the years, and the knowledge acquired in the university study is very limited, more knowledge needs to learn and master in future work. . Because of this, a high level of universities, the main goals and focus are not in the specific church, and it is greater than to make students to make a solid foundation for future development, helping them build a research problem. Master the skills of reading and get new knowledge. Take people fish, or to teach people to fish? This is a big truth, but it is really difficult. High levels of universities are high in teaching levels, in a group of professors who have mastered through academic research.
Market economy, people will face new challenges, opportunities and temptations every day. Perhaps these nouns are synonymous, and they will see who to choose a pair of seats. History has already proved that the social thinking is not all people who have to resist disease.
In the face of reality, when the graduates of the Computer Science Department can become an engineer of 6-15 million yuan in large school companies, it can also become a wages of money, benefits, and the best.
When the staff of the customs and postal and telecommunications, the division and loftyness of the science may be away from one after another. Of course, it is also good to pay attention to computer practical technology. There is nothing wrong, which has already conducted effective practices in many vocational and technical universities, and society also requires all talents. Everyone knows, learn a craft, Yang Yizhi, once is a kind of training in the Chinese society for thousands of families in the children, a tradition, after all, the progress of the society is inseparable from the workmanship, and I will not in the engineer. However, in the face of non-vocational college students, each teacher has its own mission, goals and unbacked responsibilities. Computational science is not a simple technique, nor is it technical science that all skillful craftsmanship can be covered. If there is no highly theoretical support, the calculation of scientific people cannot be a high-tech. Repeated scrutiny, careful thinking, Yongliang professor's series of questions actually what kind of scientists and engineers do what kind of scientists and engineers do tomorrow, that is, we need a small amount of calculation scientists, or a large number of calculation scientists ? What we need to be able to engage in the engineers developed by "Short, Flat, Fast" project, or need to use more examples of calculation of scientific theory "armed" engineers? This understanding issue is not resolved, and the education of computational science must also be self.
Ordinary little things can sometimes give us many associations and surprising. One day, I bought fruit in the farmer's market, with a farmer who came to Xiamen from Zhejiang. When I learned that every year, he had to buy a strawberry seedling from the north, it was shocked, and he was so busy with him. He told me that Xiamen is too high, cultivating seedlings here, although it is fast, but the output is easy to get sick. The cultural level of farmers is not high, and the reason is not very clear. So, with the question, I will ask the book, the answer: It turns out that many plant growth has certain regularities, seedling cultivation under reasonable low temperature conditions, can play "delay growth" and to grow "accumulate energy" for future growth The role, commonly known as "frozen frozen".
Lenovo to our human beings, if a child grows faster during children, the growth rate will slow down when "development" in the puberty, which will speed up.
Ten years of trees, a hundred years of tree people. I often think that the cultivation of talents and trees should be similar. When the seedling period, there is no good foundation, and there is no wind and rain, it is trees, it is impossible to make materials. It is also a person, it is impossible to become talented.
I advocate that the thickness is full, and more appreciates the latency. Just like the bacmels blooming in the early spring, "Without the cold and rain, which is a hundred days of fragrance."
. . . . . . After the Xiamen University work, it is trapped away from the far. It usually works too busy. Although the professor of Yongliang has always contacted, there is a lot less. Before the Spring Festival this year, I sent him a brochure, which is called computational science like this textbook. This is not my creation, but a precedent for the Americans, and now I have accepted more and more people: I should be like this. I guess that the good fortune of Wuhan - Yongliang professor must have noticed this. 1997.7.20
