NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

It's not 'corporate poaching' – it's a free market for brilliant people

  • Written by Andrew W. Moore, Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
imageWhen brains are able to go where their interests lie, everyone benefits.Brain with luggage via shutterstock.com

When Uber decided to develop its own self-driving car, it went big. The company came to Carnegie Mellon University, the epicenter for autonomous driving research for three decades, and hired away four professors and 36 technical staff...

Read more: It's not 'corporate poaching' – it's a free market for brilliant people

More Articles ...

  1. As coal mining declines, community mental health problems linger
  2. Why Bernie Sanders' supporters should be good losers
  3. As the Olympics approach, stains on Rio's architecture, infrastructure
  4. Why many people don't talk about traumatic events until long after they occur
  5. The future of genetic enhancement is not in the West
  6. Sex on TV: Less impact on teens than you might think
  7. Why Brazil's post-Olympics hangover will hit so hard
  8. Since ancient Greece, the Olympics and bribery have gone hand in hand
  9. Want college to be affordable? Start with Pell Grants
  10. In Zika, echoes of US rubella outbreak of 1964-65
  11. Philip Morris gets its ash kicked in Uruguay; where will it next blow smoke?
  12. A record 65.3 million people were displaced last year: What does that number actually mean?
  13. Why 'Sharknado 4' matters: Do climate disaster movies hurt the climate cause?
  14. How vulnerable to hacking is the US election cyber infrastructure?
  15. Traveling to Mars with immortal plasma rockets
  16. Help your children play out a story and watch them become more creative
  17. Can your Facebook friends influence your decision to buy a house?
  18. Do opioids make pain worse?
  19. German responses to terror range from cautious to conspiratorial
  20. A third term for the Clintons?
  21. More than scenery: National parks preserve our history and culture
  22. Clinton vs. Trump: Whose acceptance speech hit the right note?
  23. Will the historic nature of Clinton's nomination give her a bump in the polls?
  24. Does practice make an Olympian? Not by itself
  25. What's really behind our obsession with 'clean' athletes?
  26. Candidates control their own social media. What message are they sending?
  27. How black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship
  28. GMOs lead the fight against Zika, Ebola and the next unknown pandemic
  29. How will Turkey's failed coup and massive purge affect its economic future?
  30. Going public: Could Clinton's health care proposals work?
  31. Why Turkey wants to silence its academics
  32. What is a party platform, and why do candidates often ignore them?
  33. The science behind Hillary Clinton's problems with trust
  34. Why fear of childbirth must be studied in the US
  35. Even presidential candidates need sleep
  36. What Peru's new president can learn from Brazil's fight against corruption
  37. Gambling on limited information: our visual system and probabilistic inference
  38. The tragedy of Turkish democracy in five acts
  39. Can nature advocates save threatened Boundary Waters wilderness – again?
  40. Clinton's new college compact plan explained
  41. In Rio's bulldozed _favelas,_ echoes of America's shantytowns
  42. Dreams from their mothers: Hillary and Obama bending history again
  43. Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn't on their style
  44. What causes asthma? Clues from London's Great Smog with implications for air pollution today
  45. The Olympics won't spread Zika around the world
  46. Why 'woman' isn't Hillary Clinton's trump card
  47. The global impact of air conditioning: big and getting bigger
  48. Hooking up on campus: Sexual double standards may leave students feeling disempowered
  49. Zero tolerance laws increase suspension rates for black students
  50. Here’s a problem with the TPP that Hillary Clinton ignores at her peril