The discourse on Twitter then shifted to last year’s decision to rename NeurIPS. There were concerns over the previous name NIPS due to racial slurs and sexism.
That set off the beginning of a long exchange between Domingos and Anima Anandkumar, a professor at Caltech and director of machine learning research at NVIDIA who led a petition to change the name of the conference. Pornography came up in a discussion about web search results for the term “nips,” sparking a response from Katherine Heller, chair of diversity and inclusion for NeurIPS 2020, and Ken Anderson, chair at the University of Colorado’s computer science department.
As of Tuesday, Anandkumar’s Twitter was no longer active. She declined to comment for this story. Update: computer science vs information technology posted a public apology on her blog Wednesday. She also said she deactivated her Twitter account “in the interest of my safety and to reduce anxiety for my loved ones.”
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