IP: Another Anotherpoint of view on More on With Stock as Bait, Microsoft Lures Elite Professors

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

I was about to send out a similiar note so here is Craigs instead djf


>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>Subject: Re: IP: Anotherpoint of view on More on With Stock as Bait, Microsoft Lures Elite Professors 
>Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 11:43:20 -0700
>From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
>
>
>[Dave -- for IP if you think useful]
>
>Re: Stock as Bait
>
>There's a point here that I think some of the posters are missing.
>
>When a researcher moves from academia to industry, in almost all cases,
>that researcher stops teaching.  And many of the folks we are watching
>come to industrial facilities are top teachers.  When an outstanding
>instructor leaves, typically hundreds of undergraduates and tens of
>graduate students EACH YEAR are getting a less good education.
>
>Those students are precisely the people that industry is relying
>on to provide technical leadership at the project level a few years
>later.
>
>Some loss of researchers each year is inevitable. Indeed, it can be
>healthy -- as some folks noted, researchers want to make an impact, and
>sometimes that impact is best made in industry.  But there's a perception
>that the pace at which researchers, especially senior people who seemed
>happily settled in academia, are leaving teaching has increased.
>
>Craig Partridge
>Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies
>Consulting Asst Professor, Stanford University