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Ito resigns. Good, even if overdue. But this doesn’t eliminate the underlying questions of culture, values, and abuse under which he served.
Worth noting that Ito resigned not just as director of the Media Lab, but also as a professor. So this was apparently a complete severing of his ties with MIT, not just his position in the lab.
“Does this prestigious department I’m considering have ties to creepy pedophiles” is not one of the academic job search considerations one usually thinks about, but times have changed, clearly.
