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Editor's letter
Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/0163/Vardi_Moshe.large.jpg?1240423708&1240423708 "Moshe Vardi, Communications of the ACM's Editor-in-Chief")
Moshe Y. Vardi, Editor-in-Chief, Communications of the ACM
An old joke tells of a driver, returning home from a party where he had one drink too many, who hears a warning over the radio about a car careening down the wrong side of the highway. "A car?" he wondered aloud, "There are lots of cars on the wrong side of the road!"
I am afraid that driver is us, the computing-research community.
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