[racket-dev] ACM publishing and ArXiv

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 30 16:03:45 EDT 2011

In 2000, search wasn't nearly as good as it is now. 
If your memory is so bad, perhaps you are getting old :-) 

What I am saying is that back then, the classification 
took us to look in specific places. If we had a single
organization that classified all these papers, we probably 
would have found the paper -- even though we didn't 
search for the specific terms. 

Even though you seem to think Google replaces brains, 
browsing through catalogues of papers brings forth 
adjancencies that Google doesn't find. 




On Sep 30, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:

> With a classification system that really hopes that the past twenty
> years never happened.  Real useful.  (And I guess it's the ACM's power
> to make it look like they never did!)
> 
> Shriram
> 
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> ACM conference also classify your paper so
>> that people who look for related work and
>> may not have quite the right keywords find
>> it anyway.
>> 
>> ;; ---
>> 
>> Yesterday Stephen found a paper on tracing
>> in a lazy language that, despite its title,
>> and despite claims in the introduction,
>> comes awfully close to what John published
>> in essence in ESOP '01.
>> 
>> But they wrote it in 98 or so.
>> 
>> Why didn't we find it? The authors published
>> in some obscure Australian conference.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> 
>>> So what exactly is the benefit of publishing with ACM these days? Is it just to prove that your paper was peer reviewed?
>>> 
>>> On 09/30/2011 12:02 PM, John Clements wrote:
>>>> On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:07 AM, John Clements wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> In case you didn't catch Stephanie Weirich's post of this on plus.google.com, here's some very interesting information about ArXiv and ACM and where copyrights intersect.
>>>>> 
>>>>> It may be that you can avoid much of this by only publishing "draft" versions of your paper on ArXiv; I Am Not A Lawyer.
>>>>> 
>>>> Oh for heaven's sake.  Neglected to post the link.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> http://r6.ca/blog/20110930T012533Z.html
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> John
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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