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Bell Labs Kills Fundamental Physics Research
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from Wired: "After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab. Alcatel-Lucent, the parent company of Bell Labs, is pulling out of basic science, material physics and semiconductor research and will instead be focusing on more immediately marketable areas such as networking, high-speed electronics, wireless, nanotechnology and software." Jamie points out this list of Bell Labs' accomplishments at Wikipedia, including little things like the UNIX operating system.
Goodwill?! From the people who RENTED analog telephones to old people well into the digital age when those phones could be purchased cheap?
Good luck to them chasing their stock price like a dog chasing its tail! They deserve what they get!
If you have to pay to get your PhD there are only two reasons that I can think of... 1. You've already made a pile of money and just want to get your PhD 2. you aren't good enough to get the Grants/Fellowships/RAs/TAs and in that case should you really be getting your PhD at all? I should note this is based on engineering fields not sure how the rest of it works.
Not everyone whose FROM India is a reliable source ON India. Especially not NRI's (Non-resident ie non-returning Indians). Objective observations count for far more than some self-hating Indian mired in his own socialist and negationist prejudices. While I'm sure India cannot match the pace of developed nations in research, India invests and produces more physics research than any developing country in the world. I'm a theoretical physicist myself, and the number of papers produces by Indian physicists in APS (American Physical society) journals has skyrocketed in recent years (though it hasn't outpaced China's). The two main scientific funding bodies in India are DST (Department of Science and Technology) and CSIR (Council of Scientific and industrial research), both central government institutions. The number of grants they offer has increased steadily over the last decade. India has produced more notable physicists than any other developing country except China:
(Satyendra Nath Bose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose)
(JC Bose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdish_Chandra_Bose)
(Meghnad Saha:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megh_Nad_Saha)
(CV Raman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman)
(Homi Bhabha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha)
(Jayant Narliker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Narlikar)
(Ashok Sen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoke_Sen)
to name just a few. India just bacame the first country in Asia to produce a Bose-Einstein condensate with ultracold dilute atoms just last year alone.
So kindly fuck off, and keep your Communist Party goonda crap out of slashdot.
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