Carnegie Mellon Reeling from Defections in Robotics Department

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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There was an article just posted in the Wall Street Journal about how UBER lured robotics scientists away by providing bonuses of “hundreds of thousands of dollars and a doubling of salaries”:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carnegie-mellon-in-robotics-1433084582

I am not an Carnegie-Mellon alum, but in my opinion they are becoming a worthy rival to MIT and CalTech. In some fields (e.g. computer science), I think CMU grads are superior to anyone else. While CMU will suffer in the short-term, it speaks very highly that UBER thought the scientists were worthy of being poached.

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Exiting times for robotics. Uber and CMU seem to be cooping on this project, so there should be plenty of opportunities for CMU in this field.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/news/2015/02/13/uber-recruited-cmu-personnel-prior-to-announcing.html

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@hebegebe They are definitely right up there in some fields. I agree. IMO, if CMU were on either coast, it would already have the full respect it deserves.