Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym

Top AI conference NIPS won't change its name amid growing protest over 'bad taste' acronym

6 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/nips_ai_conference/

Special report Like something out of HBO's TV satire Silicon Valley, Neural Information Processing Systems is one of the world's top AI conferences.

Yes, N. I. P. S. NIPS. And a decision to keep calling it that has somewhat split the machine-learning community.