[TYPES/announce] AMAST (Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology) CFP

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Johnson
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] [Although this announcement doesn't specifically mention "types", it is of interest to the Types community. AMAST is largely about the interaction of mathematical analyis and software techn

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Harper
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] I am in complete agreement with Simon, and strongly opposed to the proposed plan to change the POPL reviewing process. Bob Harper On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Matthias Felleisen
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Simon and others, thanks for the feedback. While I am a member of the POPL SC until January, this email is my personal opinion and is not to be construed as something anyone else on the

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Sophia Drossopoulou
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] It seems to me that the two phase reviewing proposal is meant to address the problem that PCs are over-conservative, and they reject quirky ideas, that are not so well worked out. If so,

[TYPES/announce] 4 PhD positions in Formalization of Mathematics in Type Theory

2010-01-12 Thread Thierry Coquand
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] 4 PhD positions in Formalization of Mathematics in Type Theory We are looking for students with a strong interest in functional programming and mathematics for two projects in formalizati

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread martin odersky
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] I am very much in favor of strongly encouraging the PC to increase the number of accepted papers. I'd tend to go to parallel sessions to accommodate the increased number of talks. In additio

[TYPES/announce] tenure track assistant professorships at Chalmers

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Dybjer
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] We invite theoretical computer scientists (with a PhD degree no more than 5 years old) to apply for two tenure-track assistant professorships in "basic science" at Chalmers University of T

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Derek Dreyer
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Hi, Matthias. Thanks for the clarification about the motivation behind the rather significant proposed change to the POPL review process. There seem to be three major concerns: (1) rejecti

[TYPES/announce] reviewing, conference presentations, conference vs journal publications

2010-01-12 Thread Deepak Kapur
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] I applaud the POPL SC for making a proposal to make reviewing fairer, which I support. I am also supportive of increasing the number of accepted papers. But that is not the reason for mak

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread James Cheney
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Hi, Quoting from the proposal: | * Other conferences are moving to a year-round refereeing process | closer to that used by journals; for instance VLDB is now linked to | a journal PVLDB.

Re: [TYPES/announce] reviewing, conference presentations, conference vs journal publications

2010-01-12 Thread Greg Morrisett
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Deepak Kapur wrote: > How about the seemingly radical idea of allowing almost all > submissions/abstracts to be presented at prestigious CS conferences > including POPL, a tradition that

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Prakash Panangaden
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Thanks to Simon Peyton-Jones for sharing his articulate and well-reasoned thoughts with us. I agree that there are too few papers accepted at the best conferences and that the problem is

[TYPES/announce] CS2Bio'10 - First Call for Papers

2010-01-12 Thread Angelo Troina
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] == First call for papers CS2Bio'10 1st International Wo

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew Myers
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] The current two-phase proposal sounds to me as if it will significantly increase the amount of reviewing work without significantly increasing the quality of the reviewing process, for the

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Harry Mairson
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] 1. Regarding the proposal of Simon Peyton-Jones to choose papers randomly from a list of papers judged worthy by a program committee: Last year I was talking to a college president in the

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Sophia Drossopoulou
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] On 12 Jan 2010, at 09:50, martin odersky wrote: > I would start > the conference off with a poster session where every accepted paper is > presented. I think this is a great idea, and

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Mitchell Wand
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] "lek"-- what a wonderful word! Thank you, Prakash, for bringing it to our attention. Now on to more serious comments: I agree with most of the commenters here that the POPL proposal goes

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Michael Mislove
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Along the lines of Prakash's comments, I'd like to offer a different proposal. I take as a starting point the "conventional wisdom" that the papers accepted at the leading conferences are no

Re: [TYPES/announce] Two phase reviewing for POPL; a response

2010-01-12 Thread Manuela Bujorianu
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] > I would like to push for the idea that we accept many more > papers (perhaps double the present number) and present them at poster > sessions and have them appear in the proceedings as is