David Deutsch, a British pioneer of quantum computer theory, had dropped out of paid academia several years before his theories won wide acclaim.
Pollock considers himself lucky; he wonders if someone like him--away from academia for years and with no record of bringing in grants--would even get an interview today.
Prevalent in academia for years now, image scientists are starting to have a big impact on the commercial world, too.
I recall the pre-academia pre-20000) yeass asinglengle, self-employed person paying high rates for health insurance.
"I had been out of academia for several years.
After a spell in academia and six years at the World Bank, he spent a decade from 1991 as a senior official at the Italian Treasury.
Dr. Shalala, who had a long career in academia, including eight years as president of Hunter College in Manhattan, is to become president of the University of Miami this spring.
When you have worked in academia for 15 years, you get used to a relatively glacial and circular pace of change.
Back in London in the 1970s, he lived in Brixton with his other brother Rich, and had another stab at academia, with two years at Queen Mary College.
Decades of woefully inadequate information and communications technology curriculums in secondary schools have left academia perpetually five years (at least) behind the workplace, and they're only now trying to make up the ground.
