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Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:45AM (#9610926)
Maybe they'll just move the lab to their own company. They'll have all the researchers after all, with a real budget and real goals.
Re:Uber poached people from Carnegie Mellon robotics lab to ... by shalmanese on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @12:46PM (#9612616)
But no institutional capacity to grow new researchers. Producing PhDs is a highly resource intensive endeavor that requires a ton of institutional support. Universities consider it their mission but private companies have no interest in it, even if it's vital to their long term success.