Part of Inteview with Dave Far ber on second anniversary of Intel Research Pittsburgh

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Q3: What are the benefits to Intel of the relationship with Carnegie 
Mellon?

 A3: Carnegie Mellon feeds back to Intel the new and exciting ideas 
coming out of the academic world. Today universities, in general, are 
where the new and exciting ideas in the computer business start. The 
university is the place where people can speculate, they can try 
things, they can break the mold. So having a lab in close proximity to 
a university, and having it integrated with academia in the way that 
Intel Research Pittsburgh is integrated with Carnegie Mellon, ensures 
that the new ideas generated in academia will be transferred to 
industry.

In some way, this takes the place of the pure research of the massive 
industrial labs of the past, such as Bell Laboratories. Those huge labs 
were once the places where new, stimulating ideas started, but now 
that's changed dramatically; we're never going to build big industrial 
research laboratories again.

 Q4: Why won't we see large industrial research labs in the future?

A4: Industry as a whole has a very short perspective, because of 
pressure from the stock market for short-term profitability, and that 
tends to drive companies away from research. I wish it didn't, but on 
the other hand, it may turn out that those market pressures will put us 
in a much better position than we were before. We have a lot more major 
universities in this country than we've ever had research labs.

Rest of Interview and article at:

http://www.intel.com/research/network/d_farber.htm

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