This is so tragic... "The week before Thanksgiving, Marshall Brain sent a final email to his colleagues at North Carolina State University. "I have just been through one of the most demoralizing, depressing, humiliating, unjust processes possible with the university," wrote the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and director of NC State's Engineering Entrepreneurs Program. Hours later, campus police found that Brain had died by suicide." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/web-pioneer-marshall-brain-dies-suddenly-at-63-amid-ethics-battle/
HowStuffWorks founder Marshall Brain sent final email before sudden death
Popular tech educator died in his office within hours of claiming retaliation for filing NCSU ethics reports.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
FurballsNHairballs •
Definite need for external.investigation.
I would go so far as to say terminate the involved administrators.
Wrongful death lawsuit perhaps.
Lien Rag •
So sad...
I've read the article, I don't understand, nothing there should be enough to make someone kill himself ?
Rich Stein (he/him) •
Dan Neuman •
Whenever someone talks about AI, this is what I think of. A useful AI starting from simple Expert Systems moving to Machine Learning. Does it free us from drudgery, or does life become nothing *but* drudgery? #AI