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Comment · 6 years ago

My apologies if I came off unnecessarily reactive.

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't work for Microsoft or have any real knowledge here, but my understanding (from the grapevine) is that the team essentially was given a much larger purview. So in a sense Catapult is evolving?

Comment · 6 years ago

Keep in mind this was an academic project. The project ran its course, produced many dissertations, and more importantly successful researchers and engineers, and inspired many others to look at FPGAs and dataflow. It wasn't ever meant to be about a product or building a company...

I would counter that the project was immensely successful with the stated academic goals: as proof, the Microsoft Azure AI HW division (formerly people responsible for project catapult) was almost entirely bootstrapped by many of the same people who worked on the TRIPS project.

Here's Doug Burger providing a small retrospective on the project: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/clouds-cata...

Comment · 9 years ago

Trust me the people who spent all their time focused on the GRE don't make it to decent grad programs.

The elephant in the room isn't why aren't more universities accepting 'local' students. No department would choose a foreigner over a local. You wanna know why? How much the student is going to cost them. Foreign students never qualify for in-state tuition (well at a state school anyways) and right off the bat are much more expensive to their advisor's budget. Local students can also apply for NSF Graduate Fellowship, and bring in their own funding, something most foreign students can't. Both of these factors make it so that the first preference is to hire local.

That said, in a large number of departments (especially in CS, and other sciences) you see a burgeoning international student population. Why? There just weren't enough decent local applicants to go around and science needs its foot-soldiers.