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I had the opportunity to visit the Watson Research labs a few weeks ago and meet with several researchers working on dynamic languages there. IBM is not like a
by kingkilr 15y ago
I had the opportunity to visit the Watson Research labs a few weeks ago and meet with several researchers working on dynamic languages there. IBM is not like any Silicon Valley company, researchers have individual offices, there isn't tremendous shared space, and you pay for stuff in the cafeteria. But they have brilliant scientists and engineers there. It sounds like Ferrucci's attempts collaboration were much closer to a Bay Area startup than the IBM I saw.
- mjwalshe 15y agoWell my first Job at a high end RnD place it was all small 2 or 3 person offices. Some times you need a quiet place to think - though we did have some interesting brainstorming sessions in my office - one on the best way to measure the efficiency of flushing toilets was one I remember. I remember looking into using machine vision to help with this but when the base cost of the kit was £250,000 we had to give that up (this was in teh early 80's)