tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post3044248972837732915..comments2024-03-27T19:58:17.387-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: The NSF Annual ReportLance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-582996030661119772009-07-01T10:47:09.624-05:002009-07-01T10:47:09.624-05:00Yeah, second the last anon reviewer - what on eart...Yeah, second the last anon reviewer - what on earth is going on with ECCC?Rahulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-21726774720543091552009-07-01T09:44:19.267-05:002009-07-01T09:44:19.267-05:00Sorry to be off topic but does anyone know where a...Sorry to be off topic but does anyone know where all the 09 ECCC papers went ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-61940513289452131862009-06-30T19:01:09.406-05:002009-06-30T19:01:09.406-05:00I was thinking about the following question just t...I was thinking about the following question just today: how many papers per year is one "expected" to publish for an NSF grant? Considering that a typical NSF grant covers only 1 month of salary, it seems the answer is the number of papers you can write in a month. Surely, on average, this is at most one paper. Yet I always feel like one paper is too little for the annual report...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-31854818190669842212009-06-30T13:29:24.761-05:002009-06-30T13:29:24.761-05:00Oh, how hard it must be for you to write reports f...Oh, how hard it must be for you to write reports for your NSF grant! You want someone to take the grant off your hands?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-59317056615809785712009-06-30T12:27:05.413-05:002009-06-30T12:27:05.413-05:00The proceedings of an annual conference is not a &...The proceedings of an annual conference is not a "one-time" publication. Conference proceedings don't fit in either category. They are more like journals than books or other monographs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-42247291582757696762009-06-30T11:29:52.151-05:002009-06-30T11:29:52.151-05:00Get papers => get funding & get funding =&g...Get papers => get funding & get funding => get papers<br /><br />So, there is pressure to get papers in conferences to get funding to get papers in conferences.<br /><br />So, if NSF has given 10 proposals funding related to theory conferences - then there ought to be about 10-15 papers in these conferences for that funding, otherwise both NSF and PIs will look bad. <br /><br />It is not clear how much good this cycle will do to longterm research in CS in US.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com