Life as a research scientist
Dec. 17th, 2006 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
paserbypWhat is going on at Sun Microsystems Laboratories in Burlington, Mass?
Vice President and Sun Fellow Robert Sproull says the Labs employs 150 and gets 2% of Sun's roughly $2 billion in R&D money per year. Of all the projects underway, 60% to 70% are software development efforts, he estimates.
One of new technology the company demonstrated was an audioconferencing tool built in Java that has some interesting features. For example, users can start a private voice-chat session in the background, and adjust the audio level for any individual participant. Users also can migrate the conference call to a cell phone if they have to hit the road. All sensible advances.
Principal Investigator Nicole Yankelovich says she hopes some pieces of the project end up in production, but she won't venture a guess as to where and how. That's life as a research scientist.
Vice President and Sun Fellow Robert Sproull says the Labs employs 150 and gets 2% of Sun's roughly $2 billion in R&D money per year. Of all the projects underway, 60% to 70% are software development efforts, he estimates.
One of new technology the company demonstrated was an audioconferencing tool built in Java that has some interesting features. For example, users can start a private voice-chat session in the background, and adjust the audio level for any individual participant. Users also can migrate the conference call to a cell phone if they have to hit the road. All sensible advances.
Principal Investigator Nicole Yankelovich says she hopes some pieces of the project end up in production, but she won't venture a guess as to where and how. That's life as a research scientist.
