Let them work on more interesting problems. The InfoLab at Northwestern had cooperation between the EECS department and the journalism school and managed to bui

Let them work on more interesting problems. The InfoLab at Northwestern had cooperation between the EECS department and the journalism school and managed to build a system called Stats Monkey which wrote automated stories when given a sports data set. Ends up working so well that it's spun off into a startup. http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/ http://infolab.northwestern.edu/projects/stats-monkey/ http://narrativescience.com/ http://narrativescience.com/