So computer science research is very difficult these days as major challenge and opportunity is development of large scale distributed systems
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Can't be done with traditional faculty + 2 graduate student model
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Can't be done without 75% of resources going into "non-research" activities such as maintaining software infrastructure in a rapidly evolving world -- this is familiar in fields such as experimental physics and astronomy
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Industry will probably have much more resources and do better RESEARCH anyway (no analogy for physics!)
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All projects today are collaborative -- communication revolution has dramatically increased need for travel -- I made 42 "business" trips in 1998
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Academia tends to give same person marketing and technical leadership responsibilities -- Industry separates
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So NPAC will hopefully be restructured with 75% of activities transferred to 3 small businesses: WebWisdom.com(education), Translet(distributed computing), MindTel (HCI and universal access)
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I can teach and work from a hermit's cave in a remote Adirondack hideaway
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