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Well, gee, I wonder what the ACLU has to say about their record? Actually I don’t, because I’m a member, and I’m fairly up to date on their activities. For your easy reference:Over the years, the ACLU has represented or defended individuals engaged in some truly offensive speech. We have defended the speech rights of communists, Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, accused terrorists, pornographers, anti-LGBT activists, and flag burners. That’s because the defense of freedom of speech is most necessary when the message is one most people find repulsive. Constitutional rights must apply to even the most unpopular groups if they’re going to be preserved for everyone.Some examples of our free speech work from recent years include:In 2019, we filed a petition of certiorari on behalf of DeRay Mckesson, a prominent civil rights activist and Black Lives Matter movement organizer, urging the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that, if left standing, would dismantle civil rights era speech protections safeguarding the First Amendment right to protest.In 2019, we successfully challenged a spate of state anti-protest laws aimed at Indigenous and climate activists opposing pipeline construction.We’ve called on big social media companies to resist calls for censorship.We’re representing five former intelligence agency employees and military personnel in a lawsuit challenging the government’s pre-publication review system, which prohibits millions of former intelligence agency employees and military personnel from writing or speaking about topics related to their government service without first obtaining government approval.In 2018, we filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the NRA’s lawsuit alleging that the state of New York violated its First Amendment rights should be allowed to proceed.In 2016, we defended the First Amendment rights of environmental and racial justice activists in Uniontown, Alabama, who were sued for defamation after they organized against the town’s hazardous coal ash landfill.In 2014, the ACLU of Michigan filed an amicus brief arguing that the police violated the First Amendment by ejecting an anti-Muslim group called Bible Believers from a street festival based on others’ violent reactions to their speech.Source: Free SpeechSeems to me this record speaks for itself.

In academia, papers are flowers. Some professors managed to have fruits - societal and industrial impacts. But it is very very very rare.Eventually, all flowers come and go, they just fall to the ground. I have seen many in my years as a professor.Have you noticed, that plants with super big flowers never produce fruits?As for your question why some groups are super productive in papers. I have seen many stars and i have my theory. Some people just hit the right stride. If the professors are in a state of ignorance, then they can keep publishing, as long as the school has top students with right caliber.Three conditions for “crazy paper rush”:new pay dirt of academic novelty. Micro fluidics, resonators, meta materials, nano stuff - anything that is based on a design variations and has dubious usefulness will get a lot of papers.good students available. (high ranking departments with good caliber students who need minimal advising)professor must be kinda naive. He/she don’t know what industry and should I say “keeps pushing ahead with youthful energy”.I can give you a few examples. Three bad ones, and three good ones.At University of Michigan, they hit the stride on micro resonators. They kept writing, about 100 papers a year and they did it for three years. Eventually the two star professors both got better jobs, UC jobs. The resonators were commercialized and eventually failed to become big. End of discussion, but the papers remain.The two professors, one went to UC, one went to UC, and one related also went to UC. They become comfortable, and never publish any longer. Students at Michigan were good for that subject study.At Berkeley, my friend Zhang was making stealth smart cloaks. He can publish a Nature paper and a Science paper on the same week. Eventually I found that his inspiration was not new. He was doing what his MS thesis advisor was doing, with new twists. Eventually everything he advocated for failed to materialize. He has long quit his faculty job and become a successful administrator. Eventually, being the president of a school is a good job.Here is a conversation I had with Charlie Lieber, 2006, after 911 and before the financial melt down of 2008.At Harvard, Lieber’s group was publishing nanotube papers at a pace of about 20 Science per year. One time I was sitting with Charlie and he said to me “Chang I don’t believe any of the stuff I made”. But Lieber produced wonderful students who populate the entire academia. His students are themselves stars at Stanford and Berkeley and everywhere. And now they all know what Lieber told me in 2005.It is very hard to turn science into impact.Charles Lieber, highly published nano scientists during the nano papers gold rush (1998–2008).Now the good ones. Professors who turned their work into industrially useful things. They are rare, but over the 25 years career I have seen some.Prof. Wu of Berkeley published a single paper on Science about using laser to produce local electric field on PN junction substrates and use the field to catch cells for sorting. It took him just one paper, but he spent 12 years to make Berkeley Lights IPO. Ironically, Wu’s a big shot and his first company ended in disaster. His first billion dollar company failed in grand fashion. This made his a good entrepreneurial professor, not an academic nerd and dreamer.No academic people is bigger than Stephen Quake. He is the “chosen one” after all, his PhD advisor was Stephen Chu. His first company Fluidigm struggled for 20 years without going IPO (and he is at Stanford and Caltech), after his wonderful work in Science and Nature. But Quake never relented. Eventually some of his flowers bear fruits. He made his society impact.Many people know that Harvard and MIT are good schools, but few know that in terms of patent royalty, Northwestern University out rank Caltech, MIT, and Harvard combined by a large margin. It is all because of one patent of one professor. Prof. Silverman worked on one topic his entire life, and his result bear fruits for him after 30 years of research with not many papers. The Professor’s personal share of royalty is 1 billion dollars. His group meeting serves stake dinners.Northwestern Chemistry building is named after a professor in the department. Silverman Hall.Silverman does not publish a lot. That is not the point.Rick Silverman donated his department a building. A single professor group beats Harvard, Caltech and Berkeley in combined patent royalty gain, from one molecule discovery over 30 years, and one drug that is only ranked 19th on wanted disease list.Why do I refer to college professors as “ignorant”? because they have no idea what is going on in the big competitive world of industry and in the big world called “society”. It is not their fault - they never specialize in that. But you as a student should never assume that they do that - never assume they do things that are realistically impactful just because they flash fancy PhD degrees from fancy schools and from famous advisors. It is all in the small pond of “scholarly pursuit”. At best, the professors are hobby tinkerers, widget makers, and gadget inventors. That is their primary purpose in society - to stay inquisitive. That is why the tax payers don’t mind professors and university research.A typical university research grant is 2 million dollars for two years. At Apple, a 100,000 annual salaried researcher would cost Apple 200,000. So that 2 million will pay 10 Apple workers for a year, and Apple has 137000 employees. Academia research spending is the lowest expense of any research organization - naturally no one expect real results, but professors always make the biggest noise. That is because industry researchers never talk. If they do, all the professors would get silent and listen and take detailed notes.The moral: focus on the work and your training, not the papers. If possible, don’t do research in vacuum. Society does not remember who did not benefit it.A side point, not everyone is suited for PhD work, and not every PhD succeed at getting a normal job. PhD is paper writing is great training but many don’t know how to follow up. Academia is a island or continent of its own, quite unrelated to the international business and commerce.Epilogue: A one paper wonder - Dr. Kurt Petersen, serial entrepreneur with one high citation paper.There is one person who published a single academic paper, and then started four successful startups. His name is Kurt Petersen. His seminal paper and only paper in this field, is “silicon as a mechanical material”. It was cited 4300 times. This paper launched a field, and also launched his career. Kurt was working for IBM at the time and quit his job to start a company. His first company failed because he is a nobody. But this paper give him instant name recognition. He was able to launch a serial innovator career, and become very rich and wise leader. He was in private industry all his life, but was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, on one paper and four companies. He made the 1/10000 precision pressure sensor in 1985 that even today can not be duplicated by many national laboratories all around the world.Kurt Petersen founded at least four companies: Nova Sensors, Cepheid, SiTime, Mirasol display, among others.

There is no contest, in terms of startup *culture* - you'll find a hell of a lot more in Ann Arbor - we're basically the Boulder of Michigan. See http://a2newtech.org http://techbrewery.org http://a2geeks.org http://www.a2techevents.com http://igniteannarbor.com http://a2makerfaire.com etc. etc.We've lost several companies from here to YCombinator, TechStars, Betaspring, etc. but have been successful in growing many interesting startups here to fantastic exits. For example, Ben Kazez relocated here from Minnesota as one guy, and in under 2 years, grew Mobiata to a team of 12 (with some local startup veterans) before being acquired by Expedia.There is hacker culture and software/interactive design talent in spades in Ann Arbor, and some cross-pollination of these communities across the state (e.g. Momentum in Grand Rapids, TechNOW/FutureMidwest in Royal Oak, i3 Detroit, the Lansing TechSmith crew, etc.). There is a sizable maker community in the region (as any of the 23,000 Detroit Maker Faire attendees can attest to), with even Ford getting in the mix with the new TechShop opening up in Allen Park this year!I've had several friends with strong ties to the Detroit arts & music communities move to the city over the last few years, and they've loved it - Detroit really is the new Berlin! Let the hipsters go to Austin and Portland (http://www.ifc.com/videos/portlandia-portland-dream-of-the-90s.php :-) and the doers go to Detroit. ;-)In terms of the Detroit tech community, Compuware and Quicken are godsends; without them, it would be hard to identify anything remotely tech downtown, and I hope more of their employees migrate to live in the city proper. What gets a lot more play, it seems, is social media, mostly as an outgrowth of the big agencies (Campbell-Ewald, Ogilvy, Organic, etc.).Sadly, there's not a lot of visibility into what's going on across the metro area (including Royal Oak, Southfield, Troy, etc.), although some publications are trying - e.g. http://semichiganstartup.com (Issue Media Group, publisher of Metromode, Concentrate, etc.), http://Xconomy.com (by the former editor of the MIT Technology Review - serious tech journalists now covering the Detroit beat), etc. There's not enough coverage of startup innovation here, vs. traditional business news (e.g. Crain's). I think a lot has to do with how much is going on here in the state's "blessed" 4 magic sectors (auto/alt manufacturing, cleantech, life sciences, homeland security), and how other tech here doesn't neatly fit that agenda or history (e.g. repurposing a manufacturing labor force).Besides D NewTech (Go Thanh!), I'm really hopeful for Josh Linkner / Dan Gilbert's new Detroit Venture Partners - not because other resources don't exist, but because they hint at a completely different culture for startups in Detroit than what's been floated before (an "institutional" approach to entrepreneurship).But mostly, I just pray for public transit here; it would help our region in so many ways. Andrew Basile (Young & Basile, and the North Woodward Tech Incubator) also presents a convincing argument for developing the Woodward corridor as a walkable urban core (http://igniteshow.com/videos/woodward-great-american-city-hidden-plain-site).