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WTF is an "IBM researcher" ? Why are we coupling ourselves to corporate entities in this day & age ? Just use her name & title. The research itself is pretty if

• barik 13y ago
  I'll give you a serious response, as explained to me in a recent interview I had for a research scientist position: branding. Some researchers in industry are given fairly wide latitude in the topics that they are allowed to study. In these cases, the company usually gets little direct benefit from the output of the "pet" research idea. For such researchers, their indirect value is the publications and resulting press that hopefully increases the brand of the corporation in a more general sense. I think it's a fair trade off to have to make if you're considering industrial research. I'd also note that academia isn't much different -- most of those releases also start with something like "MIT researchers..."
• hnriot 13y ago
  is this a serious question? A corporate backed researcher is one that has the financial and IT resources at their disposal to research with and use that research in the shareholder interests of that corporation. The IP does not belong to an individual, but rather to the corporation, hence the lack of attribution to the researcher. It's like saying Sun created Java, rather than Gosling created java, both are 'correct', but the former more so.