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According to what metric?

• mahmud 16y ago
  Here is at least one metric. In that link, scroll down to the bottom. Yahoo Research has 7.6 "points" while MIT has 5.8. Lifshits is a research scientist at Y!R.
  • gnosis 16y ago
    This is very interesting. Taken at face value, it looks like corporations are buying up all the best computer science researchers. I wonder what long-term effects this will have on the computer field and on computer science research at universities.
  • ra 16y ago
    This is a very limited metric. By the same vein Microsoft is the best of the best.
    • sp332 16y ago
      Not Microsoft, it's Microsoft Research. They probably are the best of the best. The cameras and firmware for the Kinect were made there, for example. http://research.microsoft.com/ http://research.microsoft.com/
• yurylifshits 16y ago
  Only according to this list. I totally understand how incomplete and random this metric is to measure the real impact. Regarding "buying brains", being at Y!R is a great experience for me and it matches all the perks of being in academia (you can publish almost anything, work with students, teach at universities if you want, etc).