Prominent MIT Jewish Computer Scientist Resigns, Citing Anti-Semitism
“Some areas of study at MIT seem to prioritize promoting a specific worldview over teaching critical thinking skills.”
There is a serious problem at MIT and the leadership there has been curiously silent ever since the congressional hearings.
The College Fix reports:
Citing campus antisemitism, popular Jewish computer scientist resigns from MIT
A prominent computer scientist at MIT has resigned after accusing the university of failing to protect and defend Jewish students and staff from extreme campus antisemitism that followed the October terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens.
Mauricio Karchmer, a lecturer at MIT since 2019, announced his resignation in a LinkedIn post Jan. 3 that stated it was a difficult decision, noting his Introduction to Algorithms course is taken by over 60 percent of undergrads at MIT.
“During a time when the Jewish and Israeli students, staff and faculty were particularly vulnerable, instead of offering the support they needed, the broader MIT community exhibited open hostility towards them,” Karchmer wrote. “Like many other college campuses nationwide, the institute clearly failed this test.”
According to some on-campus testimonies, Jewish and Israeli students at MIT were at one point “blockaded” from attending classes in the wake of the terrorist attacks and were afraid to even leave their dorm rooms.
Karchmer did not respond to requests from The College Fix seeking additional comment.
In his post, Karchmer also accused MIT of promoting a specific ideology over critical thinking skills. While he did not mention it by name, MIT has been accused of embracing diversity, equity and inclusion principles, making national headlines in 2021 after canceling a scientist’s guest lecture because he is a critic of DEI.
“Some areas of study at MIT seem to prioritize promoting a specific worldview over teaching critical thinking skills. This seems to have been institutionalized in many of MIT’s departments and programs,” Karchmer wrote.
“MIT has some work to do if it wants to continue in its mission ‘to educate students in areas of scholarship to best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.’”
Karchmer’s resignation, and MIT’s embrace of DEI was denounced in a Jan. 4 City Journal piece by Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald. Mac Donald scolded MIT President Sally Kornbluth for a tone deaf decision to announce MIT’s inaugural Vice President for Equity and Inclusion last week amid DEI and antisemitism scandals.
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MIT has been infected with the woke hive mind virus.
“his Introduction to Algorithms course is taken by over 60 percent of undergrads at MIT.”
Color me impressed, Note: not merely 60% of undergrads in computer science, but the whole damn school. Assuming that’s not a mistake.
MIT has been questionable for some time, and not just about anti-semitism. Suzy Weiss published an exhaustive article in The Free Press about the ouster of genius cancer researcher, David Sabatini, on the basis of sexual harassment. Sabatini was on the list of potential Nobel Prize winners before MIT hired a cute young thing to run her own lab at MIT. Both being single, they hooked up. She did not work for him. But his reputation dwarfed hers, and that somehow made her a victim. Very petty. It’s not a pretty story, particularly if you have a loved one stricken with cancer. But if you want to read it, here it is: https://www.thefp.com/p/he-was-a-world-renowned-cancer-researcher?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fdavid%2520sabatini&utm_medium=reader2.
What a loss.
Similarly, a woke female agitated until Prof. Richard Stallman, a Genius Grant recipient well along “the spectrum” socially, was cashiered for a sign welcoming “hot babes” on his office door. It’s not well known, but among his many other contributions to information science (such as the Free Software Foundation), Stallman invented—as a joke—the crucial concept behind the “large language model” AIs that are all the rage today. He included it for free in the emacs editor (another of his seminal inventions) as the “Dissociated Press.” I’ve been playing with it for 50 years as a source of amusement, only to find AI hucksters enjoying public adulation and making billions off an insanely scaled version of essentially the very same algorithm.
Greetings from another emacs fan. Used it today to write a perl script.
Can you imagine what could be achieved if Karchmer got with Rufo and Ackman?
(Hey Professor, Sarasota is real nice.)