In this guest post, Sanjeev Arora will share some thoughts about the future of scientific publishing in our community. This is not unrelated to our last post, and is also aimed at initiating discussion towards FOCS 2013 that is starting in the coming weekend. As always, comments are most welcomed with the reminder that WindowsOnTheory … Continue reading Sanjeev Arora: Thoughts on Paper Publishing in the Digital Age
Author: Omer Reingold
Umesh Vazirani: should publishing in STOC/FOCS and Science/Nature be mutually exclusive?
The business meeting of STOC/FOCS is usually rather tedious, but it is also an opportunity to raise and debate issues that the community should be concerned about. One such issue is the inconsistency between our publication norms and the norms of other communities. This is becoming more and more important as TCS megalomaniacally adopt the … Continue reading Umesh Vazirani: should publishing in STOC/FOCS and Science/Nature be mutually exclusive?
FOCS 2013 Registration
FOCS 2013 registration is open with an early registration deadline of October 4th 2013. In a few days, I hope, the program would be posted as well, but as the list of accepted papers indicates - its going to be very interesting!
On Moody Rd
One of my favorite quotes is “the work of the righteous is done by others.” It comes in handy whenever someone does something I could/should have done, and especially when this someone executes it better than I would. Based on its first few posts, I have the feeling that Moritz Hardt’s new blog, Moody Rd, will give me … Continue reading On Moody Rd
Some Reflections on the FOCS PC Work
I promised to blog regarding the FOCS work and I did it to some extent. But not as much as I thought I would. Turns out that chairing was not conducive to blogging (or to much of the other things I planned on doing). Feel free to ask me questions here, and I’ll do my … Continue reading Some Reflections on the FOCS PC Work
GM Turing Award, words by Avi Wigderson
In celebration of the the Goldwasser-Micali Turing Award, Avi Wigderson wrote the lyrics for two songs based on familiar tunes. They were performed by a Malaysian singer found on Mechanical Turk (Avi promises a more professional version some day). The songs and lyrics are included for your enjoyment: Crypto boy CryptoBoy lyrics Killer queen KillerQueen lyrics
FOCS 2013 – Accepted Papers
While there is a long tail of tasks ahead of us, the FOCS 2013 PC have completed its main task – selecting the program. The list of accepted papers is appended to this post, and I think it is a great collection of papers! We have unfortunately rejected many good papers, either because the presentation … Continue reading FOCS 2013 – Accepted Papers
Away with Page Limits on Submissions (II)
As discussed here, the FOCS 2013 PC did not impose page limit on submissions. As this was an experiment, it is important to try and assess its success. Clearly, no page limit in itself makes it easier on the authors, but we tried to make the CFP more demanding on authors in terms of presentation. … Continue reading Away with Page Limits on Submissions (II)
Craving for Stories
My FOCS PC work slows down the flow of stories (but feel free to send me your stories without all the redundant arm twisting, you know I’ll get to you at some point anyway 😉 ). In the meanwhile, here are two pointers that are relevant. First, People of ACM has some great stories. In particular, … Continue reading Craving for Stories
On the Importance and Risks in Using Sub-Reviewers
I promised to post from time to time about the FOCS 2013 PC work (to demystify the process). So here is a quick update: We got 280 submission (well, 281 submissions but one was just a bad joke). This is up (by more than %10) from FOCS 2012 but on the other hand our PC … Continue reading On the Importance and Risks in Using Sub-Reviewers
Windows On Theory 