"After the industry experiences, I could see startling differences between the academic and business worlds. I was most comfortable in universities, where I was able to freely learn, grow, and openly share whatever I know with people around me. In industry, information is protected, which leads to complicated games and strategies for gaining power based on who knows what. It is a difficult place to be if you enjoy sharing your knowledge and understanding, and generally helping people with their projects. I also found the Dunning-Kruger effect to cause serious problems in industry, especially when people don't know what they don't know, but have massive power over others and company directions. Both worlds clearly play important roles, but I learned that a university research environment makes me the happiest. I feel very lucky to have been able to try both at fairly high levels."
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Steven M. LaValle
Steven M. LaValle (born 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American computer scientist, and a professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Oulu. He was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR until it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. He is best known for his work on rapidly exploring random trees (RRTs), the Oculus Rift, and his book, Planning Algorithms, one of the most highly cited texts in the field.
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