The Innovative University

How can a small university like Carnegie Mellon have such a big impact on the world? Ironically, being small is a key reason the university is so prolific. An intimate environment, coupled with an extraordinary ratio of world-class thinkers, has produced a culture of collaboration that may be unmatched elsewhere in higher education. How that culture emerged is now chronicled in a series of essays by Carnegie Mellon faculty, including the late Nobel Prize-winner Herb Simon, the "father of artificial intelligence." Find out what caused Carnegie Mellon's meteoric rise from its trade school roots to one of the finest research universities in the world in The Innovative University, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.

DANIEL P. RESNICK is Professor of History Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon, and a winner of the Elliot Dunlap Smith Prize for Excellence in Teaching in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is Special Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs. His research interests are post-revolutionary societies, literacy development in Europe and the United States, and the measurement of educational success. He has taught at Harvard University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Stanford University. He joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1966. DANA S. SCOTT is the Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon. His philosophical interests are the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, and the semantical analysis of natural language. He has taught at the University of Chicago, the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, the University of Amsterdam, Princeton University, Oxford University, and the University of Linz, Austria. He joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1981.