[FRIAM] More CMU News and Uber

[Pamela McCorduck]

My last visit to CMU (April 2018) told me that the university had made its peace with this kind of poaching (the article’s dateline is 2015).  Less obvious than the wholesale lifting of roboticists has been the wooing of other kinds of computer scientists. By “made its peace” I mean that CMU recognizes reality, and has contracts for its faculty that allow for a year or two off to work in industry, and then time back to clear people’s heads and let them both do undirected research and teach (if at dramatically lower salaries). I’m given to understand Stanford has the same kind of arrangements.

I’ve also heard that some researchers consider industrial research far superior to the academic kind because the fund-raising in academia is so time-consuming, not to mention frustrating. The industrial model is the old Bell Labs, where bright researchers gladly signed on with the telephone company because they were pretty much left alone to do what they wanted, with some possible future payoff for the telephone system. That didn’t last forever, and perhaps the other won’t either.

Meanwhile, China leaps ahead (maybe not of us, but ahead of itself for sure) with stable government funding for research and development, but I don’t know what the expectations are for researchers there.

Pamela




> On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:08 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Regarding industrial/academic partnerships:
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> https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached <https://www.theverge.com/transportation/2015/5/19/8622831/uber-self-driving-cars-carnegie-mellon-poached>
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