editor’s letter
DOI: 10.1145/1941487.1941488
Moshe Y. Vardi
technology has
social Consequences
A conference program committee (PC)
member received a paper for review.
He distributed the manuscript to his
research group to “solicit their opinions
of the paper” and the group embarked
on improving the results of the paper
under review. The research group then
submitted their own paper to another
conference, their submission occurring three months before the first
paper was to be presented at a conference. When eventually confronted
(the short gap between the appearance of the two papers triggered questions), the PC member responded
with “Was that wrong? Should I have
not done that?” (The reader may want
to search for this phrase on You Tube.)
Moshe Y. Vardi, EDIToR-In-CHIEF