Ah, I meant academic, as in "came out of a university." Sorry I left that unclear. I wasn't saying it was "qualitatively different," but that it did not develo

Ah, I meant academic, as in "came out of a university." Sorry I left that unclear. I wasn't saying it was "qualitatively different," but that it did not develop speech recognition. It was the work of many, MANY brilliant people, and to say Google developed it would be avoiding so many details. The same with the chemists. There's nothing inherently different simply because of the fact that they work at different places. Suppose chemist at university develops chemical A for some process X and chemist at Merck develops chemical B for the same process X. Both are equal contributions; certainly it would be wrong to say that chemist 2 solved process X. Is that more sensible?