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Princeton is a tiny school which still has Tarjan and Appel. And it's a half hour ride from NYC.
I'd be very interested to know the route you are taking to get to/from NYC then.
Woops hour twelve by train.
Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
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Re: Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
#32look I get it - ivies attract best and brightest and the incentive structure for businesses is such that things like this make sense (as a recruitment tool) but why not drop this kind of program on a good-not-ivy state school? there are so many to pick from (um Ann arbor, ut Austin, UF, stonybrook, CUNY, etc). it's just strikes me as very similar to wealthy donors donating back to ivies - like c'mon what is marginal…
This isn’t a donation — they want the best return from their investment, and don’t care whom it does or doesn’t benefit externally.
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Also, Bloomberg.
Ewing != Princeton, despite the marketing efforts of "princeton south".
The address of the building is literally Princeton within city limits (according to Google Maps). Ewing is a bit too far. You might be thinking of the data center, though to be quite honest I don't remember where it is.
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Ewing != Princeton, despite the marketing efforts of "princeton south".
The address of the building is literally Princeton within city limits (according to Google Maps). Ewing is a bit too far. You might be thinking of the data center, though to be quite honest I don't remember where it is.
Though it has a Princeton address, the offices are really within the Montgomery city limits.
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Princeton has an extremely strong mathematics department (possibly the best in the world) plus the IAS is nearby. Perhaps they are looking for close collaboration with pure mathematicians? My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.
as far as i can tell from perusing the literature for the last ~year very few people care about theory in ML
? I know people at most schools I pay attention to getting paid to specifically work on that. In fact this is what probably one of the most famous applied mathematicians in certain engineering crowds (Ingrid Daubechies) is working on for her big project from what i understand
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That most likely has nothing to do with it. These sort of things happen with previous relationships of some faculty with academics inside Google. There is no "long term" play of let's quash the competitors. Higher ranked schools are often better at research as well, you can get more bang for your buck than lesser ranked schools.
> Higher ranked schools are often better at research as well, you can get more bang for your buck than lesser ranked schools. Just to be clear, Princeton ranks close to 15-20th in CS. Many state schools do out rank Princeton in CS and they do not have such labs yet. I can understand if IAS or the Math department was the main reason to open a lab there. But, if it was quality of CS faculty that exclusively factored in…
Not that its perfect but US News and World Report puts the grad CS program at #8.
Re: Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Princeton has an extremely strong mathematics department (possibly the best in the world) plus the IAS is nearby. Perhaps they are looking for close collaboration with pure mathematicians? My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.
Indeed, the IAS has an upcoming program on machine learning.
The IAS program is underway since 2017 http://www.math.ias.edu/theoretical_machine_learning
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Indeed, the IAS has an upcoming program on machine learning.
The IAS program is underway since 2017 http://www.math.ias.edu/theoretical_machine_learning
Yes, although the special one year program (with lots of shorter term guests) doesn't kick off until 2019.
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Ewing != Princeton, despite the marketing efforts of "princeton south".
The address of the building is literally Princeton within city limits (according to Google Maps). Ewing is a bit too far. You might be thinking of the data center, though to be quite honest I don't remember where it is.
Princeton has an enormous mailing address area, though I have no idea how it got to be so. I grew up in the area and it sometimes felt like Princeton and Trenton were the only two mailing addresses in all of Mercer county