Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”

This is far more damning than any puff piece I have seen in years.

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Lenore and Manuel Blum — both longtime professors of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University — have submitted their resignations.

In a Monday morning email blast to staffers in the School of Computer Science, Ms. Blum, founder of the university’s Project Olympus business incubator, made accusations about “professional harassment” and “sexist management” on the school’s Oakland campus over the last three years.

In the email obtained by the Post-Gazette, she pointed specifically to changes made in recent years under a “new entrepreneurial management structure on campus.”

Monday evening, Ms. Blum confirmed the resignations, noting they will take effect Aug. 31, 2019, as the couple have been on sabbatical for the past year.

“Carnegie Mellon University is saddened by Lenore and Manuel Blum’s decision to resign from the university. We recognize their lasting contributions to the university, the City of Pittsburgh, and to the field of computer science,” CMU spokesperson Abby Simmons said in an emailed statement.

“Lenore and Manuel raised some important issues in the email announcing their resignation,” she continued. “Please know that we are committed to examining them, and acting accordingly on our findings.”

The Blums have compiled impressive resumes.

Ms. Blum, 75, who earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968, has been a professor of computer science at CMU since 1999.

She is the founder and faculty adviser for the university group “Women@SCS,” which has a mission to empower women's academic, social and professional opportunities in the computer sciences.

In 2007, she founded CMU’s Project Olympus startup incubator, which has supported a number of successful companies on campus. For example, portfolio company Safaba was acquired by Amazon in September 2015 for its automated text translation software and Facebook bought Faciometrics in November 2016 to boost its facial recognition algorithms.

Manuel Blum, 80, who also holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT, has been a professor of computer science at CMU since 2001.

In 1995, he received the Turing Award — the highest honor in the computer science field, often likened to the Nobel Prize — for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory.

Ms. Blum, in her email, did not detail specifics as to what drove the decision to resign beyond describing an atmosphere that she felt put up roadblocks and kept her out of major decisions, including refusals to answer her emails. On numerous occasions, she wrote, she tried to resolve troublesome situations, but they have not been resolved.

“So we are resigning. We are not retiring, we are resigning,” she wrote. “No parties please.”

Yep. Combined with the earlier news that they removed demonstrated interest as an admissions criteria (too far in the other direction IMO), CMU is starting to look like a warzone.