Re:A model to simulate how ideas move from one academic inst...
by gpm on Saturday February 02, 2019 @08:21AM
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University of Toronto student here.
> I know UToronto is a premier Canadian university, but I always considered Waterloo the premier Canadian technical university
Waterloo probably beats us on the teaching practical stuff in undergrad, and definitely on the internship side of things. We definitely beat them on teaching theory (at least for the students who are interested), and research.
> Maybe the relative isolation of UToronto in CS circles allowed more of a tinkerer mindset that enabled those researchers to survive the AI winter.
I suspect isolation is the wrong culprit. I don't feel like we are especially isolated as a university for one. I think it's more the case that we just have a culture where it's normal for profs to be doing their own less than mainstream thing. Of course I may be misreading this, I'm a student here not a prof.
> I know UToronto is a premier Canadian university, but I always considered Waterloo the premier Canadian technical university
Waterloo probably beats us on the teaching practical stuff in undergrad, and definitely on the internship side of things. We definitely beat them on teaching theory (at least for the students who are interested), and research.
> Maybe the relative isolation of UToronto in CS circles allowed more of a tinkerer mindset that enabled those researchers to survive the AI winter.
I suspect isolation is the wrong culprit. I don't feel like we are especially isolated as a university for one. I think it's more the case that we just have a culture where it's normal for profs to be doing their own less than mainstream thing. Of course I may be misreading this, I'm a student here not a prof.