>>>>> "B" == Bill Traynor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
B> ... or whether it's happenned before? Is anyone aware of other
B> contribution schemes that have resulted in a curriculum change
B> like this in Canada?
Welcome to education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
When I was researching in telerobotics for the Ministry of Defense
bomb-disposal unit (1992) we /knew/ U of Toronto AI vision labs
had precisely the calibration algorithm we needed to complete our
research but ...
Well, the rights to all results out of that AI lab is /owned/ by a
major computer company (with three initials, the first being I, the
last being M) and thus whatever results they may find using our
tax-payer-paid-for buildings, libraries and teachers is owned by a US
corp because /they/ pay for the hardware and the grad student wages.
And don't come down hard on U of T CompSci: The professor in charge of
our Ind.Eng lab often lamented how he didn't work all those years
seeking tenure to become a life-long fund-raiser, yet 40 hours a week,
that's just about all a professor does. I heard the same from many
other professors in many technology disciplines. Teasers of results
get published in the peer-reviewed journals, but too often there's not
enough detail to replicate the results; go ahead any buy a copy of
Nature -- the _actual_ knowledge coming out of Universities, the code
itself, the stuff that can be used, is /owned/ outright by the sponsor
corporations. Being cited in a journal doesn't buy expensive lab
equipment, but developing patent medicines for Bayer does.
--
Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Advantage through Community Software : http://www.teledyn.com
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
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