Uber basically does own the Carnegie Mellon CS department, they hired up most of the faculty a few years back. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or

Uber basically does own the Carnegie Mellon CS department, they hired up most of the faculty a few years back. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582 https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carn...