Looks to me like the wife didn't get what she wanted for her "women in CS" initiation and now she is turning it into some sexist issue. I can't take all those sexism in the IT industry seriously, I have worked in many different industries and haven't seen that people in IT are different to lawyers or doctors or architects or whatever other profession. It is the same milieu of middle class, usually liberal people, the whole thing is just some people imagination.
Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
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#52Re: Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
idk man they are hugely famous in computer science and are also both renowned for being very kind and well known in the community. they aren't randos getting in a fight with their department. they are academic royalty so their actions are by default assigned a lot of credibility. as a someone in graduate school for computer science [not cmu] I find this shocking and am INTENSELY curious about the details. hard to ima…
I personally choose to place more emphasis on the sacrifices of individuals than on their position of prominence when determining how important an issue is. I would personally find an average-joe resignation more interesting than one from anyone who had much less to lose in terms of livelihood.
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Re: Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally choose to place more emphasis on the sacrifices of individuals than on their position of prominence when determining how important an issue is. I would personally find an average-joe resignation more interesting than one from anyone who had much less to lose in terms of livelihood.
I was sorta thinking about like raw empirical impact ya know? like normative vs descriptive.
I'm more after looking for ways to get a qualitative feel for how big a deal the issues are that caused them to resign rather than how big an impact their resignation is. But I guess it seems the HN community has pigeon-holed me here and prevented me from getting much discussion about things. Maybe another day :-/
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#55Re: Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
#56Many rock stars in theoretical computer science, including theoretical cryptography, are linked to Blum either directly (advised by him) or indirectly (advised by his students). He left Berkeley to CMU to stay close to his son, Avrim Blum then at CMU, and grand kids. Avrim moved to Toyota Technological Inst, Chicago for greener pastures last year. It is kind of expected of Prof Blum couple to leave CMU to Chicago to…
" Wish they had given more substance to their claims of 'sexist management'." Just because they didn't share the substance with you, doesn't mean they didn't share it with CMU administrators.
What's the point of a very public resignation if you're just going to silently pass off the issues to the people you claim are doing nothing about said issues?
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#57Is there something I can install to block ad blocker blockers? In this case it looks like Admiral is the culprit.
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#58Reading article still no idea what happened. Two scientists resigned at age 75 and 80 after year sabbatical.
No specific reasons or issues named.
Re: Two CMU Computer Science Professors Resign, Citing “sexist management”
#59Many rock stars in theoretical computer science, including theoretical cryptography, are linked to Blum either directly (advised by him) or indirectly (advised by his students). He left Berkeley to CMU to stay close to his son, Avrim Blum then at CMU, and grand kids. Avrim moved to Toyota Technological Inst, Chicago for greener pastures last year. It is kind of expected of Prof Blum couple to leave CMU to Chicago to…
lots of rock stars also linked to Professor Lenore Blum too! [I am sure you know this I just wanted to make note of it for the general public]
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#60Is there something I can install to block ad blocker blockers? In this case it looks like Admiral is the culprit.
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