Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Hypercriticality

Fantastic post by the editor of Communications of the ACM that nicely captures some of the issues in the CS community:

Hypercriticality

I have long been a proponent that folks in the CS community have tended to operate as gatekeepers rather than prospectors. Hopefully more articles like this will create serious debate in the community regarding why our internal review process tends to be considerably more negative versus other research communities.