Asst prof of CS @cornell_tech starting 2021; currently @MSFTResearch; previously @StanfordAILab PhD and @Rhodes_Trust scholar. Health + inequality + CS/stats.
Apr 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Many people are discussing how Turing Award winner Jeff Ullman used to have a webpage making offensive comments about Iranians and Native Americans, but no longer does. I want to give a shoutout to a person who played a small role in getting the page taken down, @PangWeiKoh. 1/
Ullman's website had been causing problems for years when Pang Wei sent a series of polite and well-argued emails to the department asking whether it might be taken down. A few weeks later the website disappeared. 2/