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> No, those numbers are not helpful. I think those numbers are useful. Microsoft spends $14B on CS R&D. We can go back and forth about the R and the D, but tha
by throwawayjava 8y ago
> No, those numbers are not helpful.
I think those numbers are useful. Microsoft spends $14B on CS R&D. We can go back and forth about the R and the D, but that's still a freaking huge number.
> The OP specifically said Microsoft was the largest funder of academic CS research.
Needless to say, I'm not OP, and I never made any of the claims OP made.
The only purpose of my original post was to try and share what numbers we do have on this question.
And I stand by reply calling BS on the distinction between research based upon whether money is flowing into professors' research groups. Some of the world's greatest patent lawyers are retained by universities, after all.