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CSAIL is not a role, it's the institution: "MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory"
by wyldfire 7y ago
CSAIL is not a role, it's the institution: "MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory"
- pvaldes 7y agoI understand, ok. And what where the actual role of Stallman in this laboratory? Updated: explained below, answering to mail lists. Resigning does not seem like a big deal.
- rodgerd 7y agoSexually harassing students, apparently: "“When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him." (source: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix-a-a7e41e784f88 https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...)
- wyldfire 7y ago> Resigning does not seem like a big deal. IIRC he had an emeritus position? So the big deal is his loss of reputation/prestige as a result of his involvement and/or comments regarding this scandal. Aside: I am just relaying what I've read so far, I don't know anything about the allegations of offensive things RMS may have said or done.