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