Have higher education and industry always worked hand in hand in developing new technology?
A. The answer is yes and no. When I was a professor here, I got money from RCA to fund some students. RCA gave the school the RCA Professorship of Artificial Intelligence. Why did that happen? …The RCA company, 20 years ago or a little more, was asked to design a radar defense system for a fleet of ships, which exists today, so they can detect missiles and aircraft coming in. To make a long story short, we convinced them that if they gave us money for a chair, that would yield graduates they could hire and so on. So that’s a partnership between a university and industry. These things have happened before, but mostly in ad hoc ways. Now what’s the difference today? The Cold War is over, economic strength is of value, and how do you get there? Well, you need new knowledge. And you build new knowledge up in universities. Places like RCA, Bell Labs and so on, used to have these great labs in which they did their own knowledge development. Well, they’re not doing that anymore, because in
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