>> what experience is that based on? Graduate school, MS at Harvard & MIT, PhD at UIUC. Both my MS and PhD supervisors were brilliant and strongly believed i

>> what experience is that based on? Graduate school, MS at Harvard & MIT, PhD at UIUC. Both my MS and PhD supervisors were brilliant and strongly believed in publishing only when they had something real to talk about, which I respected a lot. But it was clear this wasn't what the top professors were doing. They were running paper mills. >> What fields in academia? Elec engineering & CS. >> Do you work there or have friends there I don't work there, although I was offered several positions. This culture is pretty much why I chose industry. In the real world, most customers care about real achievements. Lots of friends, yes.