Business Week Survey on Information Technology by 800 International
Reseachers
Last updated August 25, 1998
In the Business Week survey of information technology by 800
international reseachers (June 12, 1997), Stanford placed first in two categories
(Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence) and second in Telecommunications.
In the remaining category in the survey ("BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED: ARTIFICIAL
LIFE, GENETIC ALGORITHMS"), the Santa Fe Institute placed first, Stanford
placed second, and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne)
placed third. The ranking of SFI and EPFL arises from the continuing active
work of numerous individual researchers.
The 'X-Lab' List (Ranked by Category)
Business Week's poll included this question: If you were 35 and had just
won
the first Nobel Prize for Information Technology, triggering invitations
to any
lab of your choice, which one would you pick? Most researchers didn't chose
the
lab where they work. Here are the complete results, with labs ranked within
four separate research categories:
COMPUTER SCIENCE
1st Choice: Stanford University
2nd Choices: Microsoft Research, University of California-Berkeley
3rd Choice: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for
Computer Science (LCS)
4th Choice: Carnegie Mellon University
5th Choices: AT&T Labs, Bell Labs (Lucent), MIT Media Lab, Xerox Palo
Alto
Research Center (PARC)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, GROUPWARE
1st Choice: Bell Labs (Lucent)
2nd Choice: Stanford
3rd Choices: MIT LCS, Xerox PARC
4th Choice: AT&T Labs
5th Choice: University of Southern California
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ROBOTICS, SPEECH, INTERFACES
1st Choice: Stanford
2nd Choices: Carnegie Mellon University, MIT AI Lab
3rd Choices: Microsoft Research, Xerox PARC
4th Choices: AT&T Labs, IBM Research, MIT Media Lab
5th Choices: CMU Robotics Institute, Swiss Machine Learning Research
Institute (IDSIA), MIT LCS, University of Michigan
BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED: ARTIFICIAL LIFE, GENETIC ALGORITHMS
1st Choice: Santa Fe Institute
2nd Choice: Stanford
3rd Choice: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne)
4th Choices: IDSIA, University of North Carolina, University of Sussex (UK)
5th Choices: Natural Selection Inc., Naval Research Lab, UC-San Diego,
University of Illinois
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