[Tccc] ComSoc technical cosponsorship - r...

Sankar, Ravi sankaratusf.edu
Mon Jun 3 13:07:47 EDT 2013



 I agree with Nitin. Let nature take its course. We will find that the best 
conferences will survice the test of time as they have over the past 50 years 
and those that are not will eventually wither away!  

I am not saying don't do anything about the issues of "too many conferences" or 
"tccc-sponsorship", "metrics / parameters and quality". I know that our 
community has very dedicated and very smart people who will come up with 
solutions to all these issues. Let us not lose focus of seeing the "big 
picture" and perhaps more imprtant problems in the horizon such as getting more 
bright students to go to Engineering!

Best Wishes
Ravi Sankar

-----Original Message-----
From: Vaidya, Nitin H [mailto:n... at illinois.edu] 
Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 7:20 PM
To: tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: [Tccc] ComSoc technical cosponsorship - rating the review process

>> I sympathize with the notion that there are probably too many 
>> conferences and workshops

I say let a thousand flowers bloom ... no one is forcing anyone to read all 
those papers.

My views on this have changed over the years, mellowing with age  -:) But it 
seems to me that many conferences that are not considered top-tier are serving 
some useful purpose. And surely there are some gems published in these 
conferences waiting to be discovered by others.

Perhaps the real issue isn't that we have too many conferences, but that there 
are too many of us working in the area, and increasing in numbers each year. I 
wonder if the number of conferences is growing at the same rate in other 
research areas. I don't see any noticeable increase at all in my other area of 
interest, namely, distributed algorithms/theory, but then it is not a "hot" 
topic the way networking is.

- nitin

P.S. - somewhat off topic, but see 
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/features/science-news/unheralded-mathematician-bridges-the-prime-gap/
for evidence that sometimes excellent research comes from "unexpected" places 
(unexpected only because of prejudices).




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