It reads to me more like Schmidt is proposing the government set up its own "US Digital Academy" so that they don't have to compete with MIT and Stanford. (I assume the model would be something like free or low tuition in exchange for a requirement to work for the government for x years upon graduation.)
Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
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#12Funny how the article just references only those two universities, when in fact the man himself attended Princeton and Berkeley. Glad to see which schools are viewed as the Ivory Towers of the uneducated mass.
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#13> funnel tech workers into government work Government work doesn't pay well, so it will never be as prestigious as Stanford or MIT. EDIT - previous title had the headline part where it said it will "rival Stanford and MIT"
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#14I've always wondered why mega billionaires from this era such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg etc. haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc. - all started by monopolists from the previous era. I guess Eric Schmidt would be the first one
It's a federal commission that Schmidt co-chairs.
>haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc.
I assume the answer is that they generally find that it makes a lot more sense to give oodles of cash to their alma mater or some favored school to get your name on a building and/or really beef up a department than to try to found a new school which would likely take decades to establish any sort of reputation.
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#15Huh. As the page loads for me, the headline is also the entirety of the content. Though it is longer than presented here. The rest is "...and funnel tech workers into government work". The news is summarizing itself now!
The formatting at businessinsider is often pretty crummy. There is a whole article after the picture and some bullet points.
No there isn't, not for me.
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#16> funnel tech workers into government work Government work doesn't pay well, so it will never be as prestigious as Stanford or MIT. EDIT - previous title had the headline part where it said it will "rival Stanford and MIT"
You know that Silicon Valley was originally created as a government project? Government sponsored research and enterprises.
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#17I've always wondered why mega billionaires from this era such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg etc. haven't built universities like Stanford, Duke, Cornell etc. - all started by monopolists from the previous era. I guess Eric Schmidt would be the first one
Xavier Niel is a billionaire from France built Free Telecom (big telco in france) and has 42.fr school, whichisnot a unibut kinda?
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#18The question isn't whether it will rival Stanford and MIT, because it never will with a one year program. The question is whether it could incrementally attract more talent into the industry.
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#19It reads to me more like Schmidt is proposing the government set up its own "US Digital Academy" so that they don't have to compete with MIT and Stanford. (I assume the model would be something like free or low tuition in exchange for a requirement to work for the government for x years upon graduation.)
If so they can build on established offerings like officer training programs that many countries have: get a free education at a military or civillian university in exchange for x years of service. The future of military engagements is likely to be heavily related to cyberspace, so you can enlist someone without the threat of field duty, which is likely far more attractive to many young people.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The formatting at businessinsider is often pretty crummy. There is a whole article after the picture and some bullet points.
No there isn't, not for me.
Try this link: http://archive.vn/jFoU3