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Why Intel is closing Seattle lab, and what it means for the future
- Jun8 16y agoOK, let me be the devil's advocate here: At work I started 3-4 research collaborations with nearby universities and was involved quite a few others, nothing big, the $50K-$200K type. My takeaway? You don't get much for your money. Professors have their own research agenda, (most) PhD students care less about writing maintainable and documented code (I would know, I was one of those in my grad degree) and a lot of time is wasted in meetings back and forth. Still, a lot of companies do it either (1) Pointy hair bosses don't know what else to do, (2) it's PR, and (3) for some types of projects this may be the right thing to do, e.g. if you have access to the campus buildings, students, and can use them in your study. A much better way, for software and small hardware (i.e. smart sensors as Intel was pursuing in this lab) is to have competitions and offer nice prizes, a la Netflix or Google Summer of Code.