tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post3085002205356290032..comments2024-03-27T19:58:17.387-05:00Comments on Computational Complexity: You are coordially invited... Why?Lance Fortnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06752030912874378610noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-50402376964419759902010-03-12T14:24:37.735-06:002010-03-12T14:24:37.735-06:00(Rather late to add this)
I was KIDDING about Ted ...(Rather late to add this)<br />I was KIDDING about Ted Kennedy having any kind of Math degree. You can tell because Recursive Algebraic topology is not a real field.bill gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-66205337620732103912009-10-14T01:36:28.299-05:002009-10-14T01:36:28.299-05:00No disrespect for the dead, but Gasarch is wrong. ...No disrespect for the dead, but Gasarch is wrong. Ted Kennedy most certainly does not have a master's in math! In fact, he's well known for having cheated while an undergrad at Harvard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-49334377776069200242009-10-07T00:20:10.666-05:002009-10-07T00:20:10.666-05:00Bill! I just got e-mail that my Ph.D. expired! W...Bill! I just got e-mail that my Ph.D. expired! What's going on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-85308287043041483962009-10-06T14:13:33.050-05:002009-10-06T14:13:33.050-05:00EXAMPLE FOUR:
(I leave it for you to judge this o...EXAMPLE FOUR: <br /><i>(I leave it for you to judge this one)</i><br /><br />JUDGEMENT: <br /><i>"Gosh-golly ... these professional masters' degree programs are starting to look pretty good!"</i>John Sidleshttp://www.mrfm.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-52198851267356705862009-10-06T13:49:53.613-05:002009-10-06T13:49:53.613-05:00Even worse is that you can't mark fake confere...Even worse is that you can't mark fake conference and journal ads as "spam" because then your spam filter might start filtering out legitimate emails. I have seen someone pursue academic spam so aggressively, that his STOC acceptance letter ended up in the spam folder.Lev Reyzinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09629175455869565423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-11301304852402754632009-10-06T12:47:46.483-05:002009-10-06T12:47:46.483-05:00I am perplexed also but I suspect that they would ...I am perplexed also but I suspect that they would give me a reviewers copy or some other pre-copy.<br />OR they are just very confused--- the kind of people that would send a book on Ted Kennedy to the SIGACT NEWS book review editor.<br />(On the other hand, Ted Kennedy did get his Masters Degree in Math, working on Recursive Algebraic Topology.)GASARCHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134382469361359081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-85716153896792189562009-10-06T12:21:13.988-05:002009-10-06T12:21:13.988-05:00i am perplexed: you can review a book that won'...i am perplexed: you can review a book that won't be written for years??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-77583316337859856132009-10-06T11:19:21.603-05:002009-10-06T11:19:21.603-05:00The fourth example is clearly well targeted. Just ...The fourth example is clearly well targeted. Just look at THEM CAPS. ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-25545192907954317172009-10-06T10:38:29.516-05:002009-10-06T10:38:29.516-05:00I wish this post had gone a little bit more in dep...I wish this post had gone a little bit more in depth into the larger issue of academic spam, because I was surprised when I first encountered it.<br /><br />The moment I as a young grad student uploaded a paper to the Arxiv for the first time, I started to get WSEAS spam. There is no hope of getting off of their mailing lists. (This blog has gone up against WSEAS before.)<br /><br />I regularly get invitations to submit to Indian mathematical journals of dubious quality and connection to my research, and invitations to publish a book of my choosing with publishing houses I've never heard of.<br /><br />Amusingly, these are all targeted to Professor Mylastname, as they managed to scrape papers for my name and email but not check departmental status.<br /><br />Companies regularly troll the list of grad students in my department and send out unpersonalized blast recruitment emails. Even Google does this, though they clearly have a database that my name was once added to and have tracked every single contact they've ever had with me, but not my requests not to be recruited by people other than my friends.<br /><br />How are these kinds of mass mailings remotely okay? How is it that academia has managed to spawn a shadow network of junk conferences and journals that finds it acceptable to spam researchers? The rest of my email spam is typical viagra stuff that my automatic spam filters handle quite well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com