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onsulting, devoted to issues of changing training and education by the use of new technologies. I needed a name for the institute and came up with The Institute for the Learning Sciences. I made up the term "Learning Sciences." There was no such field in academia. Most people thought I meant we were planning to work on how people l

he money. They also got the prestige. I set up a new institute that became in- stantly well known and was something the university could brag about. The Institute for the Learning Sciences was something unique. North- western had one and no one else did. Moreover, I might (and did) raise even more money for my institute. More overhead m