Conferences vs. Journals in Computing Research

Moshe Y. Vardi, Editor-in-Chief, Communications of the ACM

Moshe Y. Vardi

May 1, 2009

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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