Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
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Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
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Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#2Huh. 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!
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#3I'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
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#4I can't help but think ARPA is a better model than what sounds like a government-controlled vocational school for script kiddies.
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#5I'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
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Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#6The article doesn't mention it, but given the current crisis and the huge move to remote education underway currently it would be interesting if this had an approach that took that into account.
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#7cool, give it a century or so to get used to itself and we'll see how we've done.
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#8Huh. 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.
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#9> 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"
Re: Eric Schmidt is working to launch a university
#10On a tangent: when he was young, Schmidt worked (alongside a young Wadler) on the Poplar functional language.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/CSL-81-11_Re...