For top-tier positions, experts say many companies are looking either for Asian-born workers who may been educated abroad or have risen through the ranks of a major multinational company.
The Defense Department's financial backing, $150 million in all, united hundreds of top-tier artificial intelligence experts for an ambitious and uncertain endeavor that most corporate R&D labs could only dream of tackling: teaching computers to learn in the wild.
Through gradual preparation, students develop the skills and confidence needed to present formally at high visibility events in front of top-tier venture capitalists and expert programmers.
But facing a growing number of investigations and lawsuits, it spent millions on public relations experts, lobbyists and top-tier law firms.
The viewer is going to follow these developers as they receive advice from tech experts, funding from "top-tier VCs" and promotion in the App Store.
The Underwear Expert has interviewed some top-tier celebrities and underwear models since it was founded in January of this year.
Thousands of top-tier entrepreneurs, executives, philanthropists, forward-thinking academic experts, journalists, senior foreign and U.S. government officials, scientists and Nobel laureates congregate this week to discuss today's most pressing social, political and economic challenges.
While writing the script, No Bangs, the copywriter, turned to Bangs, the Russia expert, and asked, "Would you call Paul Manafort a top-tier influencer, or tier-two?" "Definitely tier-two," Bangs said.
William Deresiewicz -- who, incidentally, is an expert on Austen -- would agree that, along with excellent sheep, top-tier institutions are very good at creating Lizzy Bennets.
But experts say this is the first time that a top-tier firm has decided to scrap a sizable fund that was nearly complete.
Few top-tier scientists have returned.
