H. T. Kung, professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon, had a good thing going. Instead of asking industry for money to fund his research, he would brashly invite companies to bid for the privilege. In the past, this tactic snared top dollars from General Electric, Honeywell, and Intel. But when Kung recently invited 12 major high-tech firms to join him on his latest project, a computer network, he only received sub-par offers. “We were too optimistic,” Kung says. So now he’s adding a new wrinkle; he’s invited the companies to sit on a committee he’s formed to better inform the firms about his research. And he hopes that they will come back with better offers when he puts the project up for bid again this fall.
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