--- title: "Students Demand MIT Fire Prof Who Visited Epstein in Prison" description: "Now, Motherboard reports, MIT students are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one even closer to the financier." date: "2019-11-05" modified: "2019-11-05" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/mit-prof-epstein-prison" categories: - "Future Society" tags: - "academia" - "jeffrey epstein" - "mit" - "the digest" --- # Students Demand MIT Fire Prof Who Visited Epstein in Prison ![Now, Motherboard reports, MIT students are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one even closer to the financier.]() *\Image: Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department\* ## Money Talks Back in August, it [came to light]() that billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had donated substantial sums to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — an apparent bid to rehabilitate his image after his [stint in jail]() for sexually abusing underage girls. The fallout was swift. MIT Media Lab leader Joichi Ito [resigned]() after it came out that he'd [helped hide the donations](), and famed open source advocate Richard Stallman [left as well]() after defending Epstein's sex trafficking on an MIT listserv. Now, [*Motherboard* reports](), students led by a group called MIT Students Against War are calling for the termination of a third academic associated with Epstein — this one so close to the financier that, in addition to accepting donations, he visited him in the Florida prison where he was being held after his sex crime conviction. ## Class Act On the first day of a quantum computing course, one student told *Motherboard*, mechanical engineering professor Seth Lloyd launched into an unprompted "monologue" about his relationship with Epstein. "Professor Lloyd has made many students deeply uncomfortable given his long-lasting and disturbing ties to Jeffrey Epstein," MIT Students Against War wrote in a statement, adding that Lloyd "has driven students away from classes they were interested in taking by openly discussing and excusing his ties to a known and convicted child sex-trafficker. Why is he still teaching? Why is he still welcome at MIT?" Lloyd, who previously [published an apology]() to Epstein's victims, declined to comment to *Motherboard*. **READ MORE:** [Students Are Demanding MIT Fire a Professor Who Visited Epstein in Prison]() \[*Motherboard*\] **More on MIT:** [*MIT Researcher Who Defended Sex With Children Resigns*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()