‘NIPS’ AI conference renamed after 30 years over complaints of sexism

‘NIPS’ AI conference renamed after 30 years over complaints of sexism
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2018-11-22 10:26

The board organizing the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems – one of the world’s most noted events for researchers working on artificial intelligence – has changed the acronym used for the event’s name after attendees complained that the name contributed to an atmosphere of sexism.

The event attended by machine learning researchers and statisticians has been a major recruiting ground for companies and labs working on AI.  For the past 30 years, the conference has been called NIPS – which is both a slur against Japanese people, and a sexualized term for women’s nipples. Following the complaints, it has been…

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