academia
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In 1994 he left academia to bring machine learning to Wall Street, then founded SCT Capital, one of the first hedge funds built entirely on machine-driven trading.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Finding the content business more lucrative than any career he could expect in academia, he dropped out of school last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
After the IMF, Gourinchas will be headed back to a career in academia at the University of California, Berkeley.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Cammock said her work was grounded in academia and "asks us to think about who is honoured and valorised and who is not; whose stories are told and whose are not".
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
For the next four years they would continue to defend him from the rivalries and rules of academia.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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