Ken Perlin is a colleague of Yann LeCun at NYU.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
What would count as true or false
Judge as of 2020-09-30. True: NYU faculty listings or official records show that both Ken Perlin and Yann LeCun held faculty appointments at NYU at that date (in any department, for example Courant Computer Science). Mostly true: both were at NYU, with a minor discrepancy in title or department. Mixed: not applicable beyond partial affiliation. Mostly false: one of them had only a loose or lapsed NYU affiliation at that date. False: one of them was not affiliated with NYU at that date.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (5)
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E1 Tenure-Track Faculty NYU Computer Science Department (cs.nyu.edu) · 2 July 2018
“Jacob T. Schwartz Chaired Professor in Computer Science Ph.D., Computer Science, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France, 1987”
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E2 Tenure-Track Faculty NYU Computer Science Department (cs.nyu.edu) · 2 July 2018
“Professor of Computer Science Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University, USA, 1986”
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E3 Gallery: 2020 Program Items — XR @ Cornell XR @ Cornell (Cornell University)
“Ken Perlin, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, directs the Future Reality Lab, and is a participating faculty member at NYU MAGNET.”
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E4 Ken Perlin NYU Media Research Laboratory (Ken Perlin's CV page)
“7/1997-present Professor, NYU Media Research Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.”
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E5 Yann LeCun | NYU Tandon School of Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering · 2 October 2026
“Yann LeCun is Director of AI Research at Facebook, and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University, affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science, the Center for Neural Science, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.”
Reasoning
Perlin's NYU professorship around 2020 is supported (E3, E4). However, the 2018 faculty listing entries do not name LeCun or Perlin (E1, E2), and the only item naming LeCun as NYU faculty is dated 2026 (E5). So the evidence does not show LeCun's NYU appointment as of 2020-09-30.
Cite this claim
Yann LeCun, “Ken Perlin is a colleague of Yann LeCun at NYU.” (said 30 September 2020). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_78bbff71dae2, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_78bbff71dae2
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
Reply to this claim
More factual claims by Yann LeCun
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Resolved true
““It’s AI for the physical world, so it’s not language-related,” LeCun said.”
AMI Labs' work is AI for the physical world and is not language-related.
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Resolved true
““It’s systems that understand the real world, like a manufacturing plant or turbojet engine.””
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Mostly true
“Full house for my lecture hosted by the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications at Harvard yesterday.”
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Resolved true
“Max is a professor at MIT. His job, like mine, is to increase the intelligence of students and other humans.”
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Resolved true
“A recent series of 8 lectures on deep learning that I gave at Collège de France in Paris.”
Yann LeCun gave a recent series of 8 lectures on deep learning at Collège de France in Paris.
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