[patkai]

Am I the only one assuming that this many excellent scientists moving from academia is a loss for science in general? Will they really publish research in the same way they did before?

(Make no mistake, I can fully understand them, professors paid 80k per year, lacking resources, fighting bureaucrats, it is a great thing that they are recognised and at last paid what they deserve for devoting their lives to science.)

[buttproblem]

While I am curious too about your question, Vapnik was previously working in industry at NEC Labs in New Jersey.

[patkai]

Good point. But I do wonder about Facebook's journal publishing policy.

[xamdam]

- Highly doubt it's purely a money decision

- Vapnik is joining a number of people he previously worked with

- Getting huge computational resources and seeing your ideas applied to real data is rewarding