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Giants like Intel and Microsoft are bellwethers for other technology firms, but the seeds of globalized R. and D. were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities...
...open an R.-and-D. facility in Beijing. Cisco CEO John Chambers announced plans to hire 100 people for a new research center by early 2006. The push into China is driven by more than human resources. Like India, China has a large pool of skilled computer scientists and basic-science researchers. China offers something else too: an entry point to 1 billion Chinese consumers. Motorola's researchers in China, for example, adapted the Chinese-language version of its A760 mobile phone. Other companies are doing only basic research, biding their time until they figure out how to break into...
...Science Center C at 9:15 in the morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard on the radio the day before. Maybe it was Ace of Base? Dates, facts, basic grammatical constructions, all sneak out of your brain like rats following the tune of the Pied Piper. Or was it the Three Little Pigs...
...view as I understand it was that Ford didn’t want to give grants to any institution that didn’t accept their basic Ford values,” he adds. “What we found problematic about that is that her view of what constituted bigotry and our view of what constituted bigotry might differ...
...this day and age to believe that men and women differ in their basic competence for math and science is as insidious as believing that some people are better suited to be slaves and other masters,” Banaji wrote...