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A PhD student who shot and killed a professor before killing himself claimed that the professor had stolen his code:
The student who shot and killed his engineering professor and then himself at a Los Angeles university had accused the professor of stealing his code.
In a blog post on March 10, Mainak Sarkar, 38, said Professor William Klug, 39, "is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy." He continued: "I was this guy's PhD student. We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick. Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust. Stay away from this sick guy." The post has since been taken down.
On Wednesday, nearly three months after posting it, and seemingly upset at poor grades, Sarkar drove from his home in Minnesota to Los Angeles where he confronted and gunned down Professor Klug at the university's engineering complex. Sarkar then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. The Los Angeles Times quoted an unnamed UCLA source as saying the allegation that Klug stole his student's code was "absolutely untrue."
The professor's name was found on a "kill list" written by Sarkar, along with another professor who wasn't on campus at the time of the shooting and has been confirmed to be safe. Sarkar reportedly killed his estranged wife in Minnesota before traveling to UCLA. Also at Los Angeles Times , The New York Times , CNN.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 03 2016, @09:26PM
This is very true.
I was one of the early M2M (IoT) guys. You see and probably see and use my 'ideas' all the time. However, my ideas are not terribly innovative. Anyone versed in the field could have come up with them. I was just one of the early guys. I became versed and a 'thought leader' in the field because of location and timing not because of being anything special. I have seen my 'ideas' re-implemented and re-discovered all the time in that field. I am not mad or jealous (well sometimes when they do it better ;) ). Many of my 'ideas' were just variations on older ideas. In fact many of my ideas in the field came about because of poor implementations that I had to fix from previous misunderstood business requirements by previous contractors.
The biggest problem I had was fighting management off because they wanted all the ideas all at once. But with no business backing. Which turned them into rabbit hole explorations with no money coming in to fund the next round of innovation. This created ideas that were half formed and did not fit customer needs. Meanwhile being technically cool and management bonus worthy. But no customers... :(