Strange Loop Conference | Mei Nagappan: Bias in evaluating code contributions @StrangeLoopConf | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Mei is an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo. His talk looks at how perceptions of contributors' race and ethnicity affects the way their code changes are evaluated.

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