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发信人: holland (物竞天择), 信区: AdvancedEdu
标  题: The Top 20 U.S. Research Lab
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Thu Apr 30 11:24:43 1998)

                        The Top 20 U.S. Research Laboratories

                                  RANK  STAFF   FACULTY  RESEARCH  PATENTS
                                     SIZE   MEMBERS   HONORS
                                           OR PhDS(%)

STANFORD UNIVERSITY                1       230     13      10      .004
Where many researchers want to work

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (CMU)

COMPUTER SCIENCE                    2       263     20      9       N.A.
Creating new centers to pursue key technologies

MIT LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER

SCIENCE                             2       254     12      13      0.08
Long a hotbed for new startups

AT&T LABS                           4       2,500   95      11      N.A.
Tied with Bell Labs, though only one-tenth as big

BELL LABS                           4       24,000  17      40      0.2
(Lucent Technologies)
King-sized lab is awarded an average of three patents a day

UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY                 6       230     13      10      N.A.
Closing the gap with traditional leaders

IBM RESEARCH                        7       2,300   52      75      0.7
Big Blue remains a research bulwark

XEROX PARC                          8       230     60      34      1.0
Now generating startups, too

MIT ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE LAB                    9       165     12      5       0.3
Has spun off 20 startup companies

MIT MEDIA LAB                      10       400     5       N.A.    0.06
Keeps on making news--and waves

MICROSOFT RESEARCH                 11      205     70      46      N.A.
A five-year-old newcomer leaps ahead

CMU ROBOTICS INSTITUTE             12      220     20       5      N.A.
Its robots aren't just for factories

SANTA FE INSTITUTE                 13      40      100     10      0.01
Very strong in complexity research

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-            14      356     10      2       0.1
URBANA
Mosaic and Netscape started here

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA                         14      374     29      5       0.08
Its Information Sciences Institute is a star

UNIVERSITY OF
MICHIGAN                           16      283     14      2       0.2
Good marks in artificial intelligence

UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON                         16      175     17      4       N.A.
Rapid rise in standing since 1970s

GEORGIA INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY                      18      685     40      3       0.05
Has new Advanced Telecommunications Center

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY                      19       27     20      5       0.3
Leader of a new program in quantum computing

CORNELL UNIVERSITY                 19      101     50      4       N.A.
An Ivy League computer pioneer

KEY
STAFF SIZE:
Total number of researchers

FACULTY MEMBERS OR PhDs: Percent of university researchers who are on the faculty, or percent of
corporate researchers who hold PhDs

RESEARCH HONORS:
Number of Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, National Medals of Science/Technology, and Nobel Prizes, plus the
number of researchers elected to the National Academy of Sciences/Engineering

PATENTS:
Average number per researcher during the last five years

N.A. = Not available

DATA: BUSINESS WEEK SURVEY

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