Journals for certification, conferences for rapid dissemination

Abstract

Rethinking the role of journals in computer science.

References

1. Birman, K. and Schneider, F.B. Program committee overload in systems. Commun. ACM 52, 5 (May 2009), 34--37.
2. Crowcroft, J., Keshav, S. and McKeown, N. Scaling the academic publication process to Internet scale. Commun. ACM 52, 1 (Jan. 2009), 27--30.
3. Fortnow, L. Time for computer science to grow up. Commun. ACM 52, 8 (Aug. 2009), 33--35.
4. van Noorden, R. A profusion of measures. Nature 465:864--866 (2010).
5. Vardi, M.Y. Conference vs. journals in computing research. Commun. ACM 52, 5 (May 2009).
6. Vardi, M.Y. Revisiting the publication culture in computing research. Commun. ACM 53, 3 (Mar. 2010), 5.
7. Wallach, D. Rebooting the CS publication process. Freedom to Tinker, June 2010; http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dwallach/rebooting-cs-publication-process.
8. Wing, J.M. Breaking the cycle. Commun. ACM 52, (Dec. 2009), 8--9.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Education

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing and business

    • Computing education

      • Computing education programs

        • Computer science education

        • Information science education