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Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as
by sasvari 16y ago
Maybe this is the small-scale return of private research units like Bell Labs or (Xerox) PARC (although both of them still exist, they are not as significant as they once were) for the Web: put a group of awesome guys together and just let them cook a bit and see what's coming out ...
- wyclif 16y agoIt's more like the classic definition of skunkworks than "official" research. A good example is NuCalc, which continued to be developed after the project was cancelled by Apple.
- koenigdavidmj 16y agoWe call that being a `research scientist', which basically means playing on the company's dime. Of course, you generally have to have a Ph.D. and prodigious output of papers to get the job.