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Re:Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborat... by Kyragem on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:59AM (#17575514)
As usual FB and other companies only collaborates with the "elite/Ivy League" schools. IMHO there are plenty of great researchers at non-elite schools and it would have been great if FB would start collaborating with those to reduce this vast concentration of academic research that has been happening for the past decade.
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Re:Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborat... by fatjokes on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:15PM (#17577431)
It's a bit chicken-and-egg. These collaborators are also in cities where FB already has offices that they can lead teams out of. Of course, these offices were started because of the prestigious schools that were already there.
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Re:Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborat... by electricslpnsld on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:11PM (#17577392)
Half the schools on the list are publics, and none of them are Ivies.
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Re:Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborat... by whymauri on Friday July 20, 2018 @02:29PM (#17577549)
How does being a public school mean a college cannot be elite? Pretty sure his point is these schools are elite within this field, and people from lesser known schools (not just public) are rarely given these chances.
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Re:Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborat... by sonnyblarney on Friday July 20, 2018 @07:28PM (#17579812)
The collab with McGill and U Montreal I believe.

U Montreal has the largest AI program going.

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