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These are not tenure track or even academic positions. NREC is owned by CMU but it is not part of any academic program at CMU. There are no students working a
by nsnick 11y ago
These are not tenure track or even academic positions. NREC is owned by CMU but it is not part of any academic program at CMU. There are no students working at NREC. NREC does technology commercialization not fundamental research. NREC's primary product is big robots not research papers (although they do publish a bit). NREC is a lot like SRI before it separated from Stanford.
- SilasX 11y agoThen it seems like this story is more "corporation raids corporation" than "corporation raids academic seed corn".
- fixermark 11y agoBasically. But that headline doesn't play nearly as well to the heartstrings of a readership already primed to assume Uber is the antagonist in any story with its name in the title. ;)
- mathattack 11y agoThank you for clarification. So it's 40 new senior engineering jobs from a university affiliated employer to a private one. Hard to feel too bad about it. It seems like Stanford has a better way of managing these type of deals.