Fwd: About consortium

[Shivashankar Halan]

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From: sitharam <sith...@cise.ufl.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Subject: About consortium
To: shivashan...@gmail.com, chrom...@gmail.com, Arunava Banerjee <aru...@cise.ufl.edu>



Here's what I asked a student to do. Here are a bunch of emails of people
who might help

pkm...@gmail.com --
oscar....@gmail.com -- twitter
ichap...@yahoo.com -- amazon gators Yong Zhou
mohamad...@gmail.com -- ask about Heping Gao of the Microsoft Gators
Kat Leung (look in the saveufcise--communciations thread for her email)

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Can you help as follows:  contact our group's alumni (Yong at Amazon,
Heping at Microsoft, Oscar at twitter, anyone
you know at Google, Yahoo etc..).  I don't have Heping's address (he
recently called me, though). Yong's old address is above.

MISSION: Get them to form a CONSORTIUM to fight
the disbanding of a successful CS department ANYWHERE.

This is an experiment to split up CS depts into (a) polytechnic diploma
mills (b) "institutes" and "incubators" that are basically on limited term
contracts with deliverables and 5 year profit bottom lines, i.e, they
would be development institutes, not basic research.

If it is successful at UF, they will try it elsewhere.

The industry consortium should point out why a diploma mill graduate will
not be a good employee for them. They should also point out that they are
not interested in universities doing development or incubation (they have
their own offices for that). They need universities to carry out
scholarly basic research, and scholarly basic research is by its nature
integrated with teaching. They cannot get rid of basic scholarly research,
and they cannot  decouple research and teaching. That should be the
message.

Meera