{"id":386,"date":"2004-03-22T05:06:31","date_gmt":"2004-03-22T10:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/22\/att-labs-losing-researchers-due-to-eco"},"modified":"2004-03-22T05:06:31","modified_gmt":"2004-03-22T10:06:31","slug":"att-labs-losing-researchers-due-to-economic-cutbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/03\/22\/att-labs-losing-researchers-due-to-economic-cutbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&amp;T Labs losing researchers due to economic cutbacks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a342'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nSeems AT&amp;T Labs which was carved from Bell Labs has almost halved their<br \/>\nnumber of researchers.  The parallels between this and the Xerox ParcPlace<br \/>\nexodus seem high.  I doubt the research branch will ever recover from<br \/>\nlosing so much talent.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, at the same time if your bottom line sinks to the red and keeps<br \/>\nsinking and research hasn&#8217;t been able to keep things afloat I can see<br \/>\nwhy you would let them go.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne thing that I find interesting is that of the researchers that<br \/>\nsplit to the four winds.  Some of them might become wildly successful.<br \/>\nHow come they don&#8217;t band together to create a fund for basic science<br \/>\nresearch if it&#8217;s so important?\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/ledger\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-14\/1079855793325040.\nxml\">Link to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems AT&amp;T Labs which was carved from Bell Labs has almost halved their number of researchers. The parallels between this and the Xerox ParcPlace exodus seem high. I doubt the research branch will ever recover from losing so much talent. However, at the same time if your bottom line sinks to the red and keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}