Themes (was: First impressions)

Daniel Klein dvk at sei.cmu.edu
Mon Jul 17 14:57:07 AEST 1989


>>	Besides that, the USENIX Call for Participation lists the "themes"
>>for the meetings, and my problems don't seem to match the recent themes.
>
>Submit anyway.  There's always a 'grab-bag' or two in the sessions.
>And given the scarcity of good papers, I really doubt they'll turn
>it away just because it isn't on their topics list.  Those themes
>are suggestions and guides, not handcuffs.

As chairman of the upcoming conference, let me please state the following for
the record:

The topics listed in the call for papers are simply a list of things I (and
some of my committee) would like to see.  The call for papers *clearly* states
that this is simply a list of *suggested* topics -- if you have a good paper
whose subject happens not to be on the list, *PLEASE* by all means submit it
for review, irrespective of subject.

When we review papers, we don't ask ourselves "which topic in the call does
this match?"  We ask "is this a good paper?"  Later, after all of the good
papers have been selected, we then try to determine which papers will go best
together in the program.  Usually, there is a grab-bag session, where papers
that don't neatly "fit" get put.  But papers are not rejected because they do
not fit on the topic list!

The bottom line is this: if you have interesting research to report -- send a
paper!  We look at everything that is sent to us.
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