5 Apr
2021
5 Apr
'21
8:19 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 6:37 PM John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 2:23 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
It's the main reason I've not had a USENIX paper published in about 15
years...
The other issue that I've run into is that the reviewers of the papers
often times don't understand the systems they are commenting on, so often I
got comments that made no sense at all... :(.
Warner
An issue during the time you are discussing,
USENIX had evolved into "two
foci" between the practitioners (which included both FOSS community and
LISA types) and the more academic-oriented folks looking for respected
places to publish papers/develop their tenure files.
I think this is a long and accelerating trend, and not just at
conferences. There simply are no venues for "engineering" papers or
presentations any more, which doesn't bother me directly, but bothers me
very much indirectly, because I love engineering papers and have to read
academic papers, ummm, very selectively. (In particular, anything labeled
"formal semantics" just gets skipped.)
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
And it was said that ever after, if any man looked in that Stone,
unless he had a great strength of will to turn it to other purpose,
he saw only two aged hands withering in flame. --"The Pyre of Denethor"