Question to U.S NSF Senior Computer Scientists Delegation and their answers

(根据回忆整理大致意思，未经当事人确认)

Qiang Lv: For a professor, he/she is facing the challenges from both industry and academy. 
Industry job market requires your students to be well-developed enough that they can be immediately put into their enterprises' working projects. 
But academy insitutes require creative research ideas and achievements for the students,
which are usually totally different from the industry. 
Since you are all headers of top computer departments, how do you evaluate your professors? 
If a professor is good at research but not hot for the industry job hunting, while another professor is good at teaching what the students are expecting just for the popular job fair, how do you rank these professors if you have to? 

(其实，这个问题是从老师的角度来探讨如何来设定学生的培养的目标。代表团成员的大致回答如下：)

Randal Bryant (CMU): 我的学院不教企业应该做的事，例如，我们不会去教.Net编程，因为那应该是企业本身该做的事情。我们应该立足研究。（此君在前面回答有关CMU软件工程方面的成就的问题上， 显得很不以为然。）

Martha Elizabeth Pollack (U of Michigan): 

Fred Stephen Roberts (Rutgers Univ.): 中国教授的压力更重，他们还面临生存的压力，学校还没有足够的钱。所以，他们不能和美国教授比，不能专注于研究方面。

Mary Louise Soffa (U of Virginia): 学生就业的心情可以理解。但是，就业也要看long-term目标，还是short-term目标。（就是说，你就业不是只考虑半年内的职位，还要考虑2年后，5年后，10年后。现在热门的未必 将来也一定需要。所以大学学习不可以太急功近利。）

Valerie Elaine Taylar (UTAM): 教授应该研究为主。

Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State U): 我们考察老师的好坏，也很注重学生的反馈，但是，反馈主要来自已经毕业若干年后的学生。因为他们的反馈比较客观，没有功利。虽然放水的老师在现任学生中可能赢得好评，但是，当这些学生毕业后数年后，就不一定认为老师这样的做法是好的做法。