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AT&T Labs' Brain Drain
Frisky070802 writes "The Newark Star-Ledger has an article on the brain drain at AT&T Labs, which laid off close to half its researchers two years ago this month, another good fraction last spring, and has lost many of the rest through voluntary departures. The article claims that only Microsoft might have the money to fund basic research as Bell Labs did years ago, though many (including me) would put IBM in the same camp. It cites problems at AT&T, ranging from researchers paying their own way to present at conferences to a loss of free espresso and bottled water. Many luminaries, such as Lorrie Faith Cranor, Avi Rubin, and Bjarne Stroustrup, are quoted --- with Stroustrup saying the lab was "mugged" by Wall Street. (Rumor has it that the losses haven't stemmed, with more top-notch researchers going to academia in the coming months.)" (Non-registration ZIP and age demographic collection.)
With spelling like that, it doesn't look like primary schools have been too productive in your lifetime either.
I challenge any of you to name something that is original and open source. Open source projects are crappy copies of commercial software. If that fat turd RMS gets his way and everything open source software innovation is going to go in the shitter.
It's a known fact that Linux is nothing more than a regurgitation of AT&T Labs' Unix. No wonder so many were layed off this year; think of how many jobs the Open Sores movement stripped away from the hard workers over at AT&T Labs...
AI, Graphics and the like (SIGGRAPH for instance)...cutting edge work from Microsoft Research
So for AI, we have Microsft Bob (Clippy).
And for graphics, we have..um...Luna? (the Windows XP interface).
And for innovative products, we have the Tablet PC?
I'm sorry about the negativity, but I really don't see anthing truly innovative having come out of Microsoft in the past, and something tells me that things will remain that way for quite some time. It takes a long time for research to begin to pay off, and Microsoft is still new at that realm of computing. Oh well, $0.02.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
There is currently no proof that GW Bush served this country in any way while being compensated for these duties. In my book, this smacks of fraudulent activity by several individuals, i.e, G.W. Bush himself as well as the paymaster at that time and any intermediate authorities.
Couldn't he even be trusted to fly a trainer back and forth over Texas?
Such a pathetic man (and his supporters) deserve neither honor nor respect.
Your comment shows a complete lack on knowledge and intellect. Clearly, you haven't the slightest clue as to what research entails nor what "computer science" is.
Go take some basic university classes before you furthur embarras yourself. By the way, it's "universties", not "universitys". Maybe you could use some high school as well.
Hopefully he doesn't teach like he designed C++.