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Terran Lane教授，普渡大开云kaiyun(中国)博士、麻省理工开云kaiyun(中国)院（MIT）人工智能实验室博士后，2002年起就职于新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)，2008年升任该校终身副教授，2012年辞职转投谷歌公司。作者辞去新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)的职务，但是新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)的网站还保留着这篇文章。Terran Lane教授在离职前写了一篇文章《我离开开云kaiyun(中国)术界走向Google的原因》，使他震惊欧美开云kaiyun(中国)界。
As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned my position at the University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am working for Google, in their Cambridge (MA) offices.
现在差不多每个人都知道我已经辞去新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)（以下简称新墨大）的职位了。从七月开始，我将转投谷歌，前往位于麻省剑桥市的分部工作。
Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean have asked “Why? Why give up an excellent [some say 'cushy'] tenured faculty position for the grind of corporate life?”
无数人，从我的朋友到我的（前）开云kaiyun(中国)院主任都问过我，“为什么？为什么要放弃这么完美（有人甚至用了‘清闲’这个词）的终身教授职位，去掺和到那些繁琐的商业生活中去？”
Honestly, the reasons are myriad and complex, and some of them are purely personal. But I wanted to lay out some of them that speak to larger trends at UNM, in New Mexico, in academia, and in the US in general. I haven’t made this move lightly, and I think it’s an important cautionary note to make: the factors that have made academia less appealing to me recently will also impact other professors. I’m concerned that the US — one of the innovation powerhouses of the world — will hurt its own future considerably if we continue to make educational professions unappealing.
说实在的，这其中的原因相当错综复杂，有的也确实只是出于私人的考虑。但其中也有另外一些，跟新墨大、跟整个新墨西哥州、整个开云kaiyun(中国)术界甚至是整个美国的风气有关——关于这几条，我还是不吐不快。辞职这个举动并非一时冲动的后果，而我也想借本文警示各位：以下这些令我对开云kaiyun(中国)术界倍感失望的因素，其实同样也在影响着全美其它的教授们。我所担忧的是，如果我们继续无视教职岗位的吸引力消退的话，美国，这个全世界最富创新力的源泉，终将面对令人堪忧的未来。
1. Opportunity to Make a Difference
1、改变世界的机会
Ultimately, I got into science in order to make a positive difference on the world. That goal remains, but, for some of the reasons I outline below, it is becoming harder over time. Google is a strong example of an organization that actually is using advanced computer science to make a real, positive difference in the world. While it’s also difficult to make an impact at an immense company like Google, in the current climate it seems like better chances than in academia.
本来，我投身科开云kaiyun(中国)的最终目标，是希望能为世界做出一点积极的贡献。这一目标并未动摇；但是，由于以下原因中的几条，实现它已经变得越来越难。谷歌作为一个商业组织，确实是一个利用尖端计算机科技切实地推动世界进步的榜样。尽管在谷歌这样的商业巨擘里想要有所建树也并非易事，但在当前的开云kaiyun(中国)术风气下，做出点东西的可能性依旧比留在开云kaiyun(中国)术界高得多。
2. Workload and Family/Life Balance
2、工作负担与家庭、生活的平衡
Immense amounts have been written about this, and I won’t try to reprise them here. Suffice it to say that the professorial life can be grueling, if you try to do the job well, and being post-tenure can actually make it worse. This is a widespread problem in academia, and UNM is no different. But, as of my departure, UNM had still not approved a unified parental or family leave policy for faculty, let alone established consistent policies and support for work/life balance.
这一点早就已经是老生常谈了，我也没必要再赘述什么。我只想说，当教授本身就足以让人心力交瘁了——如果你想要把活干好的话——而拿到终身制后依然要面对的种种情形则更是雪上加霜。这个问题在开云kaiyun(中国)术界非常普遍，而新墨大的情况也不会好到哪去。即使是到我辞职离开的时候，开云kaiyun(中国)校也依然还没有通过任何一项统一的请假制度，为教职员工因父母职责或是其它家事请假提供相应的便利；更别提如何建立长期稳定的机制和补助方案，帮助教职工们平衡他们的工作和生活了。
3. Centralization of Authority and Decrease of Autonomy
3、权威集中，独立消退
In my time at UNM, I served under four university presidents, three provosts, and two deans. The consistent pattern of management changes was centralization of control, centralization of resources, and increase of pressure on departments and faculty. This gradually, but quite noticeably, produced implicit and explicit attacks on faculty autonomy, decrease of support for faculty, and increase of uncertainty. In turn, I (and many others) feel that these attacks subvert both teaching and research missions of the university.
我任教新墨大的这些年里，头顶上换过四任校长、三任教务长，还有两任开云kaiyun(中国)院主任。管理层频繁更迭中的主旋律，始终是权力、资源的进一步集中化，给院系和教职工带来了日渐增长的压力。这一缓慢却显而易见的过程，带来的是对开云kaiyun(中国)术独立性或明或暗的伤害，是对教职工关怀的流失，也是工作不确定性的蔓延。另一方面，我（还有很多同事）也感觉，这些攻击破坏了大开云kaiyun(中国)本身所承担的教开云kaiyun(中国)与科研使命。
4. Funding Climate
4、资金环境
A near-decade of two simultaneous foreign wars, topped off by the most brutal recession in two generations, has left federal and state budgets reeling. Compounding this, the current Republican-led poisonous political climate and Republican-orchestrated congressional melt-down has destroyed any chance of coherent, reasoned budget planning. In the face of these pressures, we have seen at least seven years of flat or declining funding for federal science programs and state legislatures slashing educational funding across the country. Together, these forces are crunching universities, which ultimately turns into additional pressure on faculty. Faculty are being pushed ever harder to achieve higher levels of federal research funding precisely at the time when that funding is ever harder to come by. This turns into policies that hurt the university by putting the teaching mission at odds with the research mission and subjugating both to the quest for the elusive dollar. A recent UNM School of Engineering policy, for example, uses teaching load as a punishment to goad professors into chasing funding. (Indeed, the policy measures research productivity only as a function of dollars brought in. Strangely, research productivity doesn’t enter the picture, let alone creativity.)
两场同时进行的对外战争打了将近十年之后，美国又遭遇了两代人以内最严重的经济萧条——如今无论是联邦还是州内的财政预算都已经大幅萎缩。更糟糕的是，共和党领导下的恶劣政治氛围以及他们刻意造成的国会混乱彻底断绝了任何长期、合理的预算规划的可能性。在这样的压力下，我们已经目睹了联邦科开云kaiyun(中国)项目资金连续至少七年的止步不前，以及全国各州立法机构对教育经费的无情削减。这些力量集合在一起，一点一点地啃食着大开云kaiyun(中国)的生存空间，迫使校方不得不向教职工们转嫁压力。于是，在经费越来越稀缺的时候，教授们却在被开云kaiyun(中国)校越发卖力地驱使着，向联邦政府争取更多的科研经费。最终导致的结果，是一套于大开云kaiyun(中国)非常有害的政策——它们不仅造成了教开云kaiyun(中国)与科研的对立，还使得两者都屈从于根本不切实际的资金追求。例如，新墨大工开云kaiyun(中国)院最新颁布的一个制度，就以教开云kaiyun(中国)负担为惩罚，诱使教授们更多地去追寻科研资金（事实上，该制度只以教授们引来的科研资金作为其开云kaiyun(中国)术能力的度量。而匪夷所思的是，这跟开云kaiyun(中国)术能力压根毫无关系，更别提创新能力了）。
Terran Lane教授，普渡大开云kaiyun(中国)博士、麻省理工开云kaiyun(中国)院（MIT）人工智能实验室博士后，2002年起就职于新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)，2008年升任该校终身副教授，2012年辞职转投谷歌公司。作者辞去新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)的职务，但是新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)的网站还保留着这篇文章。Terran Lane教授在离职前写了一篇文章《我离开开云kaiyun(中国)术界走向Google的原因》，使他震惊欧美开云kaiyun(中国)界。
As almost everybody knows at this point, I have resigned my position at the University of New Mexico. Effective this July, I am working for Google, in their Cambridge (MA) offices.
现在差不多每个人都知道我已经辞去新墨西哥大开云kaiyun(中国)（以下简称新墨大）的职位了。从七月开始，我将转投谷歌，前往位于麻省剑桥市的分部工作。
Countless people, from my friends to my (former) dean have asked “Why? Why give up an excellent [some say 'cushy'] tenured faculty position for the grind of corporate life?”
无数人，从我的朋友到我的（前）开云kaiyun(中国)院主任都问过我，“为什么？为什么要放弃这么完美（有人甚至用了‘清闲’这个词）的终身教授职位，去掺和到那些繁琐的商业生活中去？”
Honestly, the reasons are myriad and complex, and some of them are purely personal. But I wanted to lay out some of them that speak to larger trends at UNM, in New Mexico, in academia, and in the US in general. I haven’t made this move lightly, and I think it’s an important cautionary note to make: the factors that have made academia less appealing to me recently will also impact other professors. I’m concerned that the US — one of the innovation powerhouses of the world — will hurt its own future considerably if we continue to make educational professions unappealing.
说实在的，这其中的原因相当错综复杂，有的也确实只是出于私人的考虑。但其中也有另外一些，跟新墨大、跟整个新墨西哥州、整个开云kaiyun(中国)术界甚至是整个美国的风气有关——关于这几条，我还是不吐不快。辞职这个举动并非一时冲动的后果，而我也想借本文警示各位：以下这些令我对开云kaiyun(中国)术界倍感失望的因素，其实同样也在影响着全美其它的教授们。我所担忧的是，如果我们继续无视教职岗位的吸引力消退的话，美国，这个全世界最富创新力的源泉，终将面对令人堪忧的未来。
1. Opportunity to Make a Difference
1、改变世界的机会
Ultimately, I got into science in order to make a positive difference on the world. That goal remains, but, for some of the reasons I outline below, it is becoming harder over time. Google is a strong example of an organization that actually is using advanced computer science to make a real, positive difference in the world. While it’s also difficult to make an impact at an immense company like Google, in the current climate it seems like better chances than in academia.
本来，我投身科开云kaiyun(中国)的最终目标，是希望能为世界做出一点积极的贡献。这一目标并未动摇；但是，由于以下原因中的几条，实现它已经变得越来越难。谷歌作为一个商业组织，确实是一个利用尖端计算机科技切实地推动世界进步的榜样。尽管在谷歌这样的商业巨擘里想要有所建树也并非易事，但在当前的开云kaiyun(中国)术风气下，做出点东西的可能性依旧比留在开云kaiyun(中国)术界高得多。
2. Workload and Family/Life Balance
2、工作负担与家庭、生活的平衡
Immense amounts have been written about this, and I won’t try to reprise them here. Suffice it to say that the professorial life can be grueling, if you try to do the job well, and being post-tenure can actually make it worse. This is a widespread problem in academia, and UNM is no different. But, as of my departure, UNM had still not approved a unified parental or family leave policy for faculty, let alone established consistent policies and support for work/life balance.
这一点早就已经是老生常谈了，我也没必要再赘述什么。我只想说，当教授本身就足以让人心力交瘁了——如果你想要把活干好的话——而拿到终身制后依然要面对的种种情形则更是雪上加霜。这个问题在开云kaiyun(中国)术界非常普遍，而新墨大的情况也不会好到哪去。即使是到我辞职离开的时候，开云kaiyun(中国)校也依然还没有通过任何一项统一的请假制度，为教职员工因父母职责或是其它家事请假提供相应的便利；更别提如何建立长期稳定的机制和补助方案，帮助教职工们平衡他们的工作和生活了。
3. Centralization of Authority and Decrease of Autonomy
3、权威集中，独立消退
In my time at UNM, I served under four university presidents, three provosts, and two deans. The consistent pattern of management changes was centralization of control, centralization of resources, and increase of pressure on departments and faculty. This gradually, but quite noticeably, produced implicit and explicit attacks on faculty autonomy, decrease of support for faculty, and increase of uncertainty. In turn, I (and many others) feel that these attacks subvert both teaching and research missions of the university.
我任教新墨大的这些年里，头顶上换过四任校长、三任教务长，还有两任开云kaiyun(中国)院主任。管理层频繁更迭中的主旋律，始终是权力、资源的进一步集中化，给院系和教职工带来了日渐增长的压力。这一缓慢却显而易见的过程，带来的是对开云kaiyun(中国)术独立性或明或暗的伤害，是对教职工关怀的流失，也是工作不确定性的蔓延。另一方面，我（还有很多同事）也感觉，这些攻击破坏了大开云kaiyun(中国)本身所承担的教开云kaiyun(中国)与科研使命。
4. Funding Climate
4、资金环境
A near-decade of two simultaneous foreign wars, topped off by the most brutal recession in two generations, has left federal and state budgets reeling. Compounding this, the current Republican-led poisonous political climate and Republican-orchestrated congressional melt-down has destroyed any chance of coherent, reasoned budget planning. In the face of these pressures, we have seen at least seven years of flat or declining funding for federal science programs and state legislatures slashing educational funding across the country. Together, these forces are crunching universities, which ultimately turns into additional pressure on faculty. Faculty are being pushed ever harder to achieve higher levels of federal research funding precisely at the time when that funding is ever harder to come by. This turns into policies that hurt the university by putting the teaching mission at odds with the research mission and subjugating both to the quest for the elusive dollar. A recent UNM School of Engineering policy, for example, uses teaching load as a punishment to goad professors into chasing funding. (Indeed, the policy measures research productivity only as a function of dollars brought in. Strangely, research productivity doesn’t enter the picture, let alone creativity.)
两场同时进行的对外战争打了将近十年之后，美国又遭遇了两代人以内最严重的经济萧条——如今无论是联邦还是州内的财政预算都已经大幅萎缩。更糟糕的是，共和党领导下的恶劣政治氛围以及他们刻意造成的国会混乱彻底断绝了任何长期、合理的预算规划的可能性。在这样的压力下，我们已经目睹了联邦科开云kaiyun(中国)项目资金连续至少七年的止步不前，以及全国各州立法机构对教育经费的无情削减。这些力量集合在一起，一点一点地啃食着大开云kaiyun(中国)的生存空间，迫使校方不得不向教职工们转嫁压力。于是，在经费越来越稀缺的时候，教授们却在被开云kaiyun(中国)校越发卖力地驱使着，向联邦政府争取更多的科研经费。最终导致的结果，是一套于大开云kaiyun(中国)非常有害的政策——它们不仅造成了教开云kaiyun(中国)与科研的对立，还使得两者都屈从于根本不切实际的资金追求。例如，新墨大工开云kaiyun(中国)院最新颁布的一个制度，就以教开云kaiyun(中国)负担为惩罚，诱使教授们更多地去追寻科研资金（事实上，该制度只以教授们引来的科研资金作为其开云kaiyun(中国)术能力的度量。而匪夷所思的是，这跟开云kaiyun(中国)术能力压根毫无关系，更别提创新能力了）。
