Recently I was at a faculty gathering at NYU in which we discussed how we might promote ties with the tech industry. In particular, we discussed how we can make sure potential Silicon Valley employers are able to see the work that our best grad students are doing at the cutting edge of research.
Of course this is a weird time for that, because Silicon Valley has been laying people off right and left. Still, these things are cyclical, and it is always good to keep the door open for the whenever the next wave of hires arrives.
At some point one professor, bemoaning the current state of things, said “So basically we are helping them to find the next group of employees for them to lay off.”
“Maybe,” I said, “that’s why they call it the cutting edge.”