Post by Nima on Apr 22, 2016 17:43:08 GMT -5
As most of you probably already know, Uber poached ~40 CMU professors early last year to work on their self-driving car technology. www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582
What are your thoughts? Looking through the Robotics Institute faculty list, I can't imagine it's had much of an impact. The current faculty count at RI is 59. I don't think any other university comes close to that.
I think in the long-run this is great for CMU. It'll help grow the Pittsburgh tech-company ecosystem, which will in-turn strengthen the school. I'm sure other tech companies will follow-suit and also open branches in Pittsburgh as well. For example, Facebook announced earlier this year they'd be opening a virtual reality branch in Pittsburgh. www.engadget.com/2016/01/20/facebook-oculus-research-pittsburgh/
What are your thoughts? Looking through the Robotics Institute faculty list, I can't imagine it's had much of an impact. The current faculty count at RI is 59. I don't think any other university comes close to that.
I think in the long-run this is great for CMU. It'll help grow the Pittsburgh tech-company ecosystem, which will in-turn strengthen the school. I'm sure other tech companies will follow-suit and also open branches in Pittsburgh as well. For example, Facebook announced earlier this year they'd be opening a virtual reality branch in Pittsburgh. www.engadget.com/2016/01/20/facebook-oculus-research-pittsburgh/
