sackofmugs

Maybe that's a good thing that it's self-governing and less regulated then. Research universities contribute a ton of research and teaching to society. Can't say the same about other industries.

Agreed. My friends who were at Brown University about 50 years ago were undergraduate TAs in computer science. It was a prestigious position, and they still exist in every course there.

The article just keeps quoting executives saying that they will "manage through it".

Looks really cool. I am doing a project that relies heavily on Google Street View photos, and having an open dataset would be amazing. Is there any guarantee that Mapillary will always offer the user-contributed photos to the public for free download? And if they disappear, that all the photos will still be available?

Is there a demo out there? I'd like to try it without installing a bunch of stuff.

You can work at MSR as a research engineer (basically, you make software to help the researchers). You're a support role, but can still do some of the research under the direction of someone with a Ph.D.

You're talking about undergrads. PhD foreign students are paid by the university, not payers into budgets. So it's actually the opposite effect.

That's not true. University professors have sabbaticals, and can also go on extended leave for multiple years and return just fine.

I looked for a while and wasn't able to find a version online. Only news stories referencing it. I'd love to be able to see what they're making, as I just went through interviews there last week.