Congratulations to Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho on a very well-deserved prize.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html …
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Jeffrey Ullman has a long history of bigotry, which is why many people in the
#MachineLearning community are speaking out against this award. In case you're not aware of this: https://codeorg.medium.com/statement-professor-jeffrey-ullmans-discriminatory-comments-against-students-94276d0c87b7 … Great
on the neg impacts of honoring ppl who harm:https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1380194611168124941 …
I see. I'm familiar with his work, but not with the man. I fully agree that toxic and abusive people should not be given prestigious awards. That was also my first thought when I saw Aaronson had received the ACM award. Very poor judgement.
