[MURG] School Idea

[king-yin yan]

From: "Randal A. Koene"
>I don't wish to disparage the school idea in the least, but I do have a
>question: How does this significantly differ from the current academic
>approach?
>
>The school idea seems to focus on the useful aspect of exchanging
>information about the specific topics of MU in an academic environment.
>
>Traditionally, a specific topic such as MU would be something that is
>persued by one or several laboratories run by interested principal
>investigators. Those who wish to learn about the specifics (e.g. student,
>postdocs) would take positions in that lab for a while. Those who wish to
>exchange information would collaborate with the lab on research and
>publications.
>
>In either case, you need funding for academic purposes and some people of
>enough renown that they can run the place. I'm just not sure how
>significant the difference is.

I don't see very significant differences either. Also, from the supply-
-demand point of view, a school's raison d'e^tre is to produce researchers.
But currently there doesn't seem to be a shortage of researchers, rather
a shortage of MU-related jobs is more likely.

I still think "coordination" may be a good idea for an MU institute. But
we need to determine whether such coordination is really needed, or
maybe it will only encumber progress with excessive administration.

The "AI route to MU" which I proposed earlier was kinda problematic.
I need more time to think about it.

Also I mis-reported that the neuroprosthetic total revenue currently
is $10s of billion when in fact it's actually probably around $100's of
million. Sorry about that. But my point is that neuroprosthesis is
already undergoing rapid commercialization.



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