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Chinese Coding Guru Suspended for Fake Claims
Computer scientist Liu Lei has apologized for misleading the public.
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The prestigious Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing says it has suspended lab scientist Liu Lei and that he faces an investigation.
Liu is the lead developer of a computer programming language known as Mulan, which he had claimed was entirely built in China.
That turned out to be not the case. Other software developers investigated Mulan and revealed it was partly based around the open-source programming language Python, which has more than eight million users worldwide.
In an open letter dated January 17, Liu apologized for misleading the public. He said his lab wrote the basic code for Mulan, but also used Python to enable the language to run on more sophisticated machines for complex tasks.
From South China Morning Post
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