Renaissance Technologies

1203.06 - 1228.591 David Rosenthal

But the other 50% of the time, they were free to do whatever they wanted, like research, pursue whatever they were doing in academia, publish papers. Kind of the appeal of going there was, hey... It's the same thing as being a professor at MIT or Princeton or Harvard or whatever, except you're doing code breaking instead of teaching. And there's no bureaucracy to worry about. There's no politics.