by Peter Sewell on Dec 7, 2021 | Tags: Reviewing
Peer review is an essential aspect of academic research, giving a feedback loop that stimulates and rewards high-quality work – but as we all know, it doesn’t always function well. To help maintain a consensus of what constitutes good reviewing, this note spells out some bad and good reasons to reject and accept papers.
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by Christos Kozyrakis and Emery Berger on Aug 19, 2021 | Tags: ASPLOS, conferences, extended abstract, program committees, Review, Reviewing
Note: This is a cross-post from the ACM SIGARCH blog; see the original post for additional comments and discussion from the SIGARCH community. Background When we started planning the ASPLOS’21 program committee in Spring 2020, we asked ourselves what we could do to...
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by Jens Palsberg on Jun 15, 2021 | Tags: conferences, covid-19, hybrid conferences
The SIGPLAN survey in early 2021 revealed that we want to go to physical conferences again and that we must take inclusion to the next level.
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by Stephanie Balzer, Kathleen Fisher, Ron Garcia, Justin Hsu, and Stephanie Weirich on May 11, 2021 | Tags: mentoring, plmw
The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) is directed at new members of the PL community: senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students. With its first edition taking place in January 2012, PLMW is coming up on its ten year anniversary. We take a look back at how PLMW has grown and evolved, and imagine where it could go next.
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by Michael Greenberg on Apr 13, 2021 | Tags: explainers, interactive, journal, open access, publishing, web
Academic communities have increased the reach and accessibility of their work by publishing interactive, open-access, open-source articles on the web that explain both core and emerging ideas in their fields. It’s time for the PL community to do the same.
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by Joseph W. Cutler, Harry Goldstein, Andrew K. Hirsch, Jaemin Hong, and Chandrakana Nandi on Mar 25, 2021 | Tags: conferences, covid-19, early-career researchers, virtual conferences
Five early-career researchers bring their perspective to the debate on conference formats after COVID. They discuss the needs of junior researchers and how different approaches address those needs.
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