[Bmi] Li Fei-Fei, Plagiarism, and Myopia in AI

[Juyang Weng]

Dear All, the following email was sent to Fei-Fei Li, Geoffrey Hinton, 
Kunihiko FUKUSHIMA, Yann LeCun, Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Christof Koch, 
Pietro Perona, Narendra Ahuja, Thomas Huang, John Tsotsos, Michael 
Jordan, Jay McClelland, Olaf Sporns, Ida Stockman, Mriganka Sur


Dear Li Fei-Fei:

I am attaching the email below that I sent to MSU CSE faculty for your 
information
with CC to all people whose names were mentioned in my blog, except
Zhou Qiang and Xi Jinping whose emails are not available.
I plan to send express mails to Zhou Qiang and Xi Jinping.

Please feel free to give me your responses about my questions in the blog.

I hope that Profs. Pietro Perona and Christof Koch could tell us some 
context about
Li Fei-Fei's PhD thesis.

Chris, I did not meant to give Fei-Fei a hard time, but these issues are 
important
to the AI field's future and should be openly discussed.
These issues are not personal, but instead academic.

Best regards,

-John


On 1/24/17 12:38 PM, Juyang Weng wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Normally, Facebook posts should not belong to this list, but many of 
> you are
> probably interested in the issue of plagiarism, especially when you 
> supervise
> your students.   Each of us is supposed to spend at least one hour 
> each year on the
> issue of research ethics with each of our students.
>
> I wonder how my respected Profs. Pietro Perona and Christof Koch at 
> Cal Tech
> supervised their PhD student Li Fei-Fei who is now at Computer Science 
> department
> of Stanford University, very successful in getting recognition and 
> funding.
>
> For the following highly sensitive information about plagiarism, I 
> would like to get
> your inputs, from this list or private.  Either version is greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> English version:
> https://www.facebook.com/juyang.weng/posts/10155025045069783?pnref=story
> Chinese version:
> http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=395089&do=blog&quickforward=1&id=1029639
>
> Somebody wrote on sciencenet.cn, "people do not cite publications that 
> helped them."
> Prof. Tomaso Poggio at MIT also did exactly that.  He also 
> successfully got a lot of fund,
> being the director of a series of NSF funded centers on machine 
> learning at MIT.
> The Plagiarism report we submitted to MIT and NSF mentioned in the 
> above post is
> to charge Prof. Poggio, although I did not mention his name.
>
> Li Fei-Fei is a lady.  I hesitated for many years because she is a 
> lady.  I do not have
> any bias against women in STEM.  I am sorry, ladies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> -John
>
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