Yesterday I posted part I of my bad conference review war stories. Today, I’m posting part II — and, hopefully, last! This was the first incident I experienced with bad reviews, and it illustrates the phenomenon much better. This incident happened back in 2007 on a technical paper we submitted to the International Conference on […]

Yesterday, a Facebook friend posted a link to a great talk by Jeffrey Naughton about the depressing state of affairs in CS research communities. I won’t do justice to that talk by trying to summarize it; follow the link and see it for yourself. His slides reminded me of a few review war stories I’ve […]

It’s Commencement time! So I thought I’d compile a list of 1010 10000 things I believe all ICS students should have done (by  themselves) by the time they get their diplomas. With luck, students have come across some of these in courses. Most likely, that won’t happen, so students need to make time for extra-curricular […]