RE: A Tale of Three Cities

Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 21:17:39 -0500 (EST)


Joseph S. Barrera, III writes:
> > The best quote in the article is way below that:
> >
> > "Compare PARC to something like Microsoft research," Saffo says.
> > "Microsoft research is an intellectual roach motel: All the big brains
> > check in but nothing ever checks out."
>
> Well, I checked out :-)
>
> But seriously, that quote has a lot of truth to it...

Speaking of which, there's Interval, the research lab founded (or at
least funded) by that other guy from Microsoft. Has anyone heard of
*anything* coming out of that place?

rst