6/01/2026
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Summarized AI information from Stanford HAI and IEEE Spectrum
Want to understand the global AI landscape? These reports are fantastic for staying updated on state-of-the-art trends. I highly recommend them to all my students, especially for doing research and job interview prep.
Stanford HAI, The 2026 AI Index Report
Eliza Strickland, 12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 Stanford’s AI Index tracks performance, investment, public opinion, and more, IEEE Spectrum, 07 Apr 2025
Eliza Strickland, The Top 10 AI Stories of 2024, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec 2024.
4/29/2026
一些常聽的 Podcast 節目和培養英文聽力的方法
- Acquired (You could look at its transcript using iPhone.)
- Google Part III: The AI Company
- I am listening to it the third time to fill in some missed details.
- In a rapidly changing world, learning how technology, corporations, and uncertainty management interact is essential.
- Hinton did split the money fairly with his students, so the message in the podcast is incorrect.
- Google search: Stories about its technology and business model
- How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
- The Complete History & Strategy of Microsoft: Vol. I, Vol. II
- Renaissance Technologies: The best-performing investment firm of all time. A book. The hosts even talk about the hidden Markov process!
- TSMC Founder Morris Chang
- American Public Media: Marketplace
- Asianometry: Global Semiconductor Issues, Semiconductor "Course", TSMC Analysis
2/21/2026
The coming wave
Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma, Crown, September 5, 2023
洪慧芳譯,控制邊緣:未來科技與全球秩序的抉擇,感電出版,2024
2/20/2026
AI Alignment
- Medha Bankhwal, Ankit Bisht, Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, and Ashley van Heteren, AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet, McKinsey, 2024.
- Yoshua Bengio et al., Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, Science, 20 May 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6698, pp. 842-845 (arXiv)
- Jiaming Ji et al., AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey, arXiv:2310.19852 (website)
- Jack Stilgoe, Technological risks are not the end of the world, Science, 18 Apr 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6693.
1/22/2026
What It Takes
Stephen A. Schwarzman, What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, Simon & Schuster, 2019.
蘇世民、趙燦譯,蘇世民:我的經驗與教訓,香港中和出版,2020
我們平常人希望能從這些傳記中,學到思考、與做事情 (決策) 的方法 (151 頁),以提升自己的能力。164 頁設定兩個組織的目標 (excellence and integrity),使用專注 (focus) 和尋求幫忙 (ask for help when needed) 達成 100% 的卓越目標;考慮長期的名聲 (reputation),例如誠實、努力工作、尊重別人、言出必行。張忠謀自傳中描述,德儀的基本價值是 integrity (誠信正直) ;張創辦人於 1994 年寫下10條的經營理念,最重要的第一條:台積電堅持高度職業道德,例如說真話、不誇張、不作秀、用人的首要條件是品格與才能等。
347 頁建立公司文化 (Lifetime learning, excellence, relentless innovation in action)。
12/15/2025
11/10/2025
The Effective Executive
Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done, HarperCollins Publishers, January 3, 2006.
齊若蘭譯,杜拉克談高效能的5個習慣,遠流,2009
The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done." This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked as well as avoiding what is unproductive. Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge may all be wasted in an executive job without the acquired habits of mind that mold them into results.
6/15/2025
世界經濟論壇 2025 年未來就業報告
World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Report 2025, 7 January 2025.
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million workers across 22 industry clusters and 55 economies from around the world—to examine how these macrotrends impact jobs and skills, and the workforce transformation strategies employers plan to embark on in response, across the 2025 to 2030 timeframe.
4/13/2025
張忠謀自傳 (下冊)
張忠謀,《張忠謀自傳》下冊 (1964-2018),天下,2024
「下冊」的第一篇「德儀篇」占全書三分之一篇幅,敘述我自 27 歲至 52 歲黃金年齡的崛起及衰退。德儀時期也是我最為熱情澎湃的年代。德儀讓我「獨上高樓,望盡天涯路」;為此,我無比地感激。但是,它對我的培植也激發了我要登上德儀顛峰的雄心。但是,這雄心是無法實現的;不說別的,只看 1970 年代美國德克薩斯州的客觀環境,就可斷定我的雄心很難很難實現。但是我的痴心,居然使我「明知不可為」的情況下,還在德儀多滯留了 5、6 年,後來連婚姻都賠上了。現在回想,那 5、6 年是多麼絕望的 5、6 年!
3/18/2025
台積電建廠的選擇
Yale Engineering Dean's Invited Speaker Series featuring C.C. Wei (魏哲家), CEO, TSMC, 2023/11/15
1/26/2025
價值戰爭
作者:朱敬一/ 羅昌發/ 李柏青/ 林建志,譯者:許瑞宋,價值戰爭: 極權中國與民主陣營的終極經濟衝突,衛城出版,2023
美中經濟衝突的根源是什麼?
經貿往來為什麼無法造就民主國家與專制國家的穩定合作?
何以市場理性無法擱置自由與集權的對峙?
11/11/2024
10/11/2024
美國商學院強大的原因
張忠謀在清華大學的演講提到了「台灣理工科與美國相差不大,但商學院卻比美國差很多」。就某方面來說,台灣的商學院其實不算太差,但是跟台灣的理工學院在國際間的等級相比,商學院真的很差。或許我們應該要先問的是,商學院是什麼?...
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Chip War (晶片戰爭)
Chris Miller, Chip War : The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology, Scribner, 2022.
洪慧芳譯,晶片戰爭:矽時代的新賽局,解析地緣政治下全球最關鍵科技的創新、商業模式與台灣的未來,天下雜誌,2023