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Uber Gives $5.5M To Make Amends For Stealing Carnegie Mellon’s Self-Driving Car Scientists

Accepted submission by Phoenix666 at 2015-09-15 12:38:03
Techonomics

Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Uber poached around 50 scientists [techcrunch.com] working on self-driving car technology at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center earlier this year. Uber had been partnering with CMU to research building its own autonomous vehicles. But then it pulled from a massive venture funding war chest to hire away a lot of CMU’s talent for its Uber Advanced Technologies Center.

Now, Uber appears to be publicly trying to win back the good graces of the academic community by announcing a $5.5 million gift to CMU. The money will support hiring a new robotics faculty chair and three fellowships.

"poached around 50 scientists." CMU scientists are like the King's Deer.

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