[HN Gopher] Stanford's Robotics Legacy (2019)
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       Stanford's Robotics Legacy (2019)
        
       Author : queenelvis
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-02-17 21:31 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (news.stanford.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (news.stanford.edu)
        
       | xhkkffbf wrote:
       | I think Stanford has nurtured a great computer science
       | department, but it's a bit odd to read some organization
       | proclaiming the wonder of their legacy. It's not exactly
       | unbiased. For instance, we don't really get much about the role
       | of others who were probably even more important than the
       | university like DARPA or some of the many corporations that
       | funded research.
       | 
       | The reality is that Palo Alto is a tough place to run a
       | university. No one can afford to live near by except those with
       | startup money riches. The head of the undergraduate CS program
       | was famous for saying he couldn't hire anyone. And this was true
       | because all of the houses within a 30 minute drive in normal
       | traffic were 3,4,5 million dollars or more.
       | 
       | Many of the professors who are there bought into the real estate
       | before the boom. This is why you can study databases with someone
       | who was teaching before MySQL and PostgreSQL were created.
       | Stanford likes to hire married professors because they only need
       | to pay enough for them to afford one house.
       | 
       | I could go on. It's a nice department that can piggyback on much
       | of the excitement in the Valley. But letting them define their
       | legacy isn't much different from asking, say, Donald Trump what
       | happened on January 6th. There's more to the story.
        
       | ModernMech wrote:
       | I'm surprised nothing about the DARPA challenges is on this page.
       | Seems like a pretty big oversight. Those events were huge for
       | Stanford.
        
       | Isamu wrote:
       | Thanks for posting, this is chock full of links to more info
       | about robots I haven't read about.
       | 
       | And it's in a pretty convenient format, I'd like to see the same
       | for other schools.
        
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