When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says

Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says by mkl on Sunday September 08, 2019 @05:25PM (#20913519)

> the university is trying to retain researchers not turn a profit on the research.

Depends on the university. Most claim ownership of researchers' inventions and have ambitions of profiting from them (many stumble at the commercialisation/monetisation step). For example, Stanford has reportedly made hundreds of millions off Google's PageRank algorithm, because Stanford owned the patent, not Larry Page. That's a good incentive not to work as a university researcher.

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Re:When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says by creato on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:37PM (#20914293)

I think Larry Page did okay in the end. It's not like Stanford takes hundreds of millions from every rinky dink idea thought up by it's students.

Another way to look at it is researchers are getting somewhat angelic investments from schools.

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