NIPS, an important conference for AI researchers, changes acronym for the event to NeurIPS after complaints the former one contributed to a sexist atmosphere
Dear members of the Neural Information … Chris Merriman / Inquirer : NIPS conference forced to change acronym after realising it has boobed Sam Shead / Forbes : ‘NIPS’ AI Conference Changes Name, Kind Of Vishwam Sankaran / The Next Web : ‘NIPS’ AI conference renamed after 30 years over complaints of sexism Tweets: Robin Wauters / @robinwauters : “Everybody is calling me, Nip! Yeah. That's my new nickname at the office. Nip!” @OfficialJLD http://twitter.com/... Anima Anandkumar / @animaanandkumar : Thank you everyone for your overwhelming support for #protestNIPS I wish we could have started with a clean slate and done away with problematic legacy, but this is a compromise. I hope we can all continue to work towards better inclusion in #ml https://twitter.com/...