Michael Pupin是哥伦比亚大学教授,因发明通信信号传送装置拿了AT公司50万美金。还写了畅销书
From Immigrant to Inventor (Three Centuries of Science in America) (Hardcover)
Michael Pupin (Author)

Norbert Wiener也写过一本书(去世后很久才出版,1994年)

Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
著者: Norbert Wiener
http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=G3Q2qOtOeLYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Invention:+The+Care+and+Feeding+of+Ideas&lr=&as_brr=3&sig=Obu61tOym7E5NVo5MZr33BaqbPI
Norbert Wiener对自学成才的Oliver Heaviside很推崇,他断定Michael Pupin是偷了Oliver Heaviside的Idea。

在该书76页,Norbert Wiener写到:

"From Immigrant to Inventor" is not a typical American success story, but a cry from Hell.

比方舟子不客气多了。