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The article presents the author's views regarding the shift in the computer science profession from a focus on journal publications to conference publications. Topics include approaches to improve conference reviewing and management; information on the process of revision for science and engineering publications; and the different requirements for papers accepted for journal publications and conference presentations.

The article presents the results of a study which investigated the correlation between the acceptance rate and impact rating of conference papers in the field of computer science. The papers with the highest impact ratings were found to be associated with highly selective conferences, defined as those which rejected between 70 and 85 percent of papers submitted. Such papers, on average, had higher impact ratings than papers which were published in journals without being presented at conferences. A rejection rate of 85 percent or more tended to suppress submission levels and reduce impact factors, while an acceptance rate over 30 percent was associated with less prestigious conferences.

The article discusses computer science (CS) conferences, presenting a methodology for determining the different characteristics of questionable versus respectable CS conferences. The CS discipline requires the verification of ideas through a rigorous peer-review process prior to publication in conferences, the article states. Topics include the pressures of CS researchers to publish academic papers, competition related to top-tier CS conferences, and program committee (PC) members of CS conferences who do not realize their conference is being operated merely for profit.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of conducting an attendee survey when he served as a program chair of a Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference in 2014.

This article presents the form and the content of the paper most likely to be accepted for publication in a respected computer science journal in 1997 for the benefit of potential authors requiring advice on publishing of their papers. The 1st annual conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology will take place at Santa Fe, New Mexico in January 1997. Human-Centered Design of Organizational Memory Systems will be held at Pyrenees, France in January 1997. CANPC'97: Workshop on Communication & Architectural Support For Network-Based Parallel Computing will be held at San Antonio, Texas in February 1997.

The article reports on the fourth symposium of the Association for Computing Machinery, on Operating Systems Principles. For the symposium, over 60 papers were submitted to the program committee in response to a call for papers. From this set, 21 papers were selected for presentation in five formal sessions. Two sessions on the first day of the symposium contained papers describing principles relevant to operating system design and measurement, as well as papers describing complete operating systems. An important focal point of the symposium was the topic of computer security and protection. The banquet speaker, professor Maurice Wilkes of Cambridge University, also emphasized protection. The need to understand the technical aspects of security is particularly urgent in view of the current national attention being given to the social implications of computerized data banks and the rights of citizens. The symposium was co-hosted by the Computer Science Department of Yale University and the Computer Sciences Department of IBM Research Center.

Introduces a series of papers presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Second Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation held on March 23-25, 1971, in Los Angeles, California. Members of the technical program committee; Titles of papers presented at the symposium.

Announces the need for research papers for presentation in upcoming events about computing in 1991. Titles of the events; Venues and dates.

Invites research papers to be presented at various conferences related to computer science.

Invites several research papers for the forthcoming conferences related to the computing systems.

The article invites papers from research scholars for several conferences related to computer science and technology.

The article presents an overview of a series of papers presented at the third Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. They include "TENEX: A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10," by D. G. Bobrow and colleagues, "Synchronization of Communicating Processes," by A. Nico Habermann, "Properties of the Working Set Model," by Peter J. Denning and Stuart C. Schwartz, and "An Operating System Based on the Concept of a Supervisory Computer," by R. S. Gaines.

The article informs that members of the Association for Computing Machinery's annual national conference are happy with the caliber and quantity of the papers received by them for the conference which will be held on August 24-26, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years ago, the intensive technical refereeing process was introduced for screening papers for ACM national conferences. Technical papers will be given importance in the conference for the educational benefit of students. Public relations chairman for the conference Raymond F. Hitti is cooperating with professor Lewis Winner in planning the conference.

This article offers an overview of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Information Systems held in Ann Arbor, Michigan from December 13 to 15, 1982. Abdel-Hamid and Madnick focused on the problem of estimating resource requirements and schedules for software development projects. Hart Wills explored the idea of a single, unified interface to provide auditors with the access they need in computer-based accounting environment. The paper by Mason and Carey is concerned with the area of information systems design.

This article presents information about last date of paper submission to the various conferences related to computer industry. Symposium on Moving Boundary Problems will be organized during September 26-28, 1977, at Riverside Motor Lodge, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Researchers can submit their papers till June 15, 1977. The symposium is sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Office and Union Carbide Corp. Fifth Annual ACM (Association for computing Machinery) SIGACT- SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages will be organized from January 23-25, 1978, at Tucson, Arizona. It is sponsored by ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN. The last date of paper submission is August 19, 1977. Fourth International Conference on Computer Communication will be organized at Kyoto, Japan, during September 26-29, 1978. It will be sponsored by International Council for Computer Communication. Papers for the conference can be submitted till November 30, 1977. Lawrence Symposium on Systems and Decision Sciences is to be held at Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California, during October 3-4, 1977. Researchers can submit their papers till June 15, 1977.

The article presents information on the papers from the Second Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium. The topic of the symposium was principles of programming languages. It was sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Automata and Computability Theory and ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages. The organizers of the symposium believed that this joint effort will result in to increased, productive understanding of many topics. The topics studied in the papers for the second symposium included topics like including: proving assertions about programs and data, optimization techniques, the computational complexity of testing grammars for certain key properties, automatic choice of data representations, exception handling, and various new approaches to programming language semantics. The program committee received 107 abstracts out of which 22 papers were selected for presentation. The papers represented almost all areas of current research. All papers were reviewed by referees in the normal fashion.

Invites papers to be included in conferences sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery.

Calls for papers to be presented at various conferences related to the computing machinery are presented.

Invites research papers for several conferences related to the field of computer science.

The article presents information on various events related to the field of computers and computing. "The 1985 ACM Thirteenth Annual Computer Science Conference," is to be held during March 12-14, 1985, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Highlights include a professional program organized around three theme days, exhibits, the finals of the ACM International Scholastic Programming Contest, the Annual Employment Register, the conference luncheon, a special luncheon for department chairpersons, and several social functions. Besides, "The ACM/IEEE-CS Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems" is to be held during September 23-25, 1985, in Pacific Grove, California. Participation is by invitation only, and attendance is to be limited to 50 participants. Each participant is expected to actively contribute to the workshop by submitting a position paper, an extended abstract, or a full paper.

The article presents information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Papers describing original research are sought for the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, which is scheduled to be held from April 25, 1983 to April 27, 1983 in Boston, Massachusetts. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: algorithms and data structures; automata and formal languages; computability; complexity theory, etc. A call for participation has been issued for the Tenth Annual Conference of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, which is scheduled to be held from July 25, 1983 to July 29, 1983 in Detroit, Michigan. Submissions are invited for both technical program paper and panel sessions. Previously unpublished papers in all areas of computer graphics and interactive techniques are sought. Appropriate topics include display techniques; graphics software systems and languages; graphics hardware; robotics; and any applications of graphics. Video or film material that is an integral component of the work must accompany the paper.

The article presents a calendar of events of the Association for Computing Machinery. A workshop on Computer Architecture and Non-Numeric Processing will be held on March 31, 1978. An International Symposium on Operating Systems will be held on April 14, 1978. A Third Berkeley Workshop on Distributed Data Management and Computer Networks will be held on April 15, 1978.

The article presents a calendar of events and special activities for the Association for Computing Machinery. Activities include conferences and symposiums on various topics including the "First Annual Conference on Modular Computers," on February 20, 1978 at Brookhaven National Laboratory, at Stony Brook, "Personal Computing Festival," in Anaheim, California, and other activities are given.

The article presents information about several conferences related to the computer industry. Technical Symposium on Computer Science and Education, will be held in Anaheim, California, during February 12-13, 1976 and the conference will be organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Biennial International Codata Conference will be held in Boulder, Colorado, on November 1, 1975. 1976 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1975.

This article presents information on various activities organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The Fifth Annual Microprogramming Workshop will be held in the Illini Union of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 25 and 26. Sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Microprogramming and the 555 Computer Society, this workshop provides a leading forum where active workers in the microprogramming area can hear several formal papers and participate in informal discussion groups oriented to specific topics. Professor Daniel L. Slotnick, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be the featured speaker at a banquet on September 25; his topic will be "Parallel Processing." The 1973 San Diego Biomedical Symposium will be held January 31 through February 2, 1973, at the Sheraton-Harbor Island Hotel, San Diego, California. The Symposium theme will be "Innovations in Biomedicine." Technical papers appropriate to the following sessions are invited: aids to clinical care, modeling and analysis, interpretation and data reduction, scanning and image processing, information engineering, and general innovations.

This article focuses on the Association for Computers Machinery (ACM) 1968 National Conference and Exposition that was held during August 27-29, 1968 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A keener recognition of member interest and professional responsibilities characterizes the spirit in which the Conference Program for ACM68 was organized. Appropriately, technical and special sessions of timely and practical concern to the information processing; community have been planned for Conference attendees. The Program Committee has worked with ACM Special Interest Groups (SIG) and Special Interest Committees (SIC) in an effort to integrate SIG/SIC efforts with the aim of presenting a distinguished program. By developing sessions with the cooperation of ACM SIG's and SIC's, the Program Committee has attempted to evolve a program which is most responsive to the needs of the ACM membership. SIG and SIC also assisted the Program Committee by encouraging their members to develop and submit papers, and by advising the SIC on the newest developments in each special interest area. Further, they were able to provide knowledge and guidance to the SIC for the selection of session chairmen and technical paper referees.

Session 19 of the ACM 20th Anniversary Conference on August 31, 1967, was entitled Education, Design Experiments, and Computer Appreciation. Its second half consisted of a panel discussion on computer appreciation, organized and chaired by Elliott I. Organick. The four panelists were Charles H. Davidson, Bernard A. Goller, Richard W. Hamming, and Alan J. Perlis. After making prepared statements, the panelists were joined in discussion by Andries van Dam and Arthur B. Kohn, who had presented papers in the first half. This is a transcript of the panel discussion, condensed by Dr. Organick and edited by him and the panelists. Same remarks referred to papers by van Dam and Kahn or to the discussion during the first half of the session. Pertinent papers are included in the references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information about the 21st National Conference of the Association for Computing Machinery to be held in Los Angeles, California, from August 30 to September 1, 1966.

The article examines aspects of the publication of conference papers in the field of computer sciences. It is noted that conferences are a quick method of publishing computer science studies and bringing together researchers and scientists for discussion. A number of topics are addressed including the impact of the publication of conference proceedings compared with publication in scholarly journals, and an analysis of the publications of the most prolific, popular, and prestigious scholars in science computing.

In this article the authors discuss the review and selection process dynamics found in computer science conference program committees, focusing on the field of systems communication. Such conferences are overwhelmed by the submission of research papers, the authors state, creating a situation in which the possibility may exist that the evolution of scientific enterprise may be slowed.

The article discusses the conference peer-review process and ways in which it can be improved. Because it has become impossible to distinguish valid research papers from hoaxes at jargon-filled high-technology computer conferences, the author suggests that the quality of computer science conferences is being questioned. He proposes a systematic understanding of quality assurance at computer conferences as a phenomenon that needs analysis and a solution with a look at responsibility and ethics among professionals.

This article presents information about several events related to the computer industry. The ACM (Association for Computing machinery) SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments is scheduled for April 23-25, 1984, at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The National Bureau of Standards and Office of Naval Research are co-sponsoring the meeting. Papers are invited, with particular emphasis on new implementation schemes for interactive program design, construction, debugging, and testing. The Fourth International Conference on Information Systems, which will be organized during December 15-17, 1983, in Houston, Texas, is soliciting papers describing research in such areas as the theory of IS effectiveness; techniques for systems design; societal impact; management of technological innovation, transfer, and diffusion; office systems and the professional workstation; information centers and other approaches to the user interface; and cross-cultural comparisons of national and multi-national systems.

The article reports on some professional activities taking place in the United States related to computer science. As a cooperative venture undertaken by 15 organizations, the "National Educational Computing Conference," held in Kansas City, Missouri, has presented a major work regarding computers in instruction to promote interaction among all levels in computer uses in education. It also intends to develop and coordinate the various professional groups involved with computer uses in instruction and to produce a proceedings documenting the status of computers in education. Papers are invited from individuals representing all academic disciplines and research areas in educational computing. It further reports that papers describing original research in the formal analysis of computing problems are being sought for the "Fourteenth Annual Association for Computing Machinery Symposium on Theory of Computing," held during May 5-7, 1982, in San Francisco, California. The Fifteenth Annual Simulation Symposium is to be held during March 17-19, 1982, in Tampa, Florida. The list contains information about some other activities as well.

The article presents news related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The new position of Director of Administration has been established at ACM Headquarters and Joseph Saetta has been hired to fill it. The position collects into one department the activities of three units which were previously in different department. They are--first, the unit which handles all membership, subscription, and single copy transactions; second, the unit which handles purchasing, the stock room, and incoming and outgoing mail; and third, the accounting unit. The Second ACM Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation will be held on March 23-25, 1971, at the International Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation is sponsoring the symposium, with the Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence as a co-sponsor. The symposium will cover developments in the field in the past five years. A number of sessions of contributed papers are scheduled, and approximately ten invited tutorial papers will survey key subject areas. The symposium will be of interest to users of both symbolic and manipulation systems as well as to system developers.

The article calls for papers to be submitted for several symposiums including the fifth Symposium on Reliability in Disturbed Software and Database Systems and the 1986 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on LISP and Functional Programming.

The article focuses on issues of interest to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) members. The ACM chapters, which will host the ACM 1981 Annual Conference from November 9 to 11, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, will sponsor a professional development seminar after the conference. A call has been issued for participation in the Office Automation Conference to be held from April 5 to 7, 1982 in San Francisco, California. The 9th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, to be held from July 26 to 30, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, has issued a call for papers.

This article presents information on some forthcoming events related to computer science. The International Symposium on Distributed Databases will be held from March 12 to 14, 1980 in Versailles, France. The 13th Annual Simulation Symposium will be held from March 19 to 21, 1980 in Tampa, Florida. The Sixth International ALLC Symposium on Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research will be held from March 28 to April 3, 1980 at the University of Cambridge in England. The 4th International IFAC Conference on Instrumentation and Automation in the Paper, Rubber, Plastics, and Polymerization Industries will be held from June 3 to 6, 1980 in Belgium. The Seventh Conference on Electronic Computation will be held from August 6 to 8, 1979 in Saint Louis, Missouri. The IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Large Scale Power Systems will be held from August 16 to 18, 1979 in Bangalore, India. The Silver Anniversary International Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research will be held from August 20 to 24, 1979 in London, England.

The article offers information about activities related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). According to Micro 6 program Chairman Louise H. Jones, research papers have been received for the microprogramming workshop sponsored by the Special Interest Group of ACM. The 8th Annual Urban Symposium of the ACM will take place in New York City which aims to deliver a discussion to individuals who uses computers to solve problems of urban society. The new executive director of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies Inc. is Robert W. Rector.

The author argues that the publication system for scholarly computer research is in need of change. He discusses the virtualization of computing-research conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced his view, describes the selection process for papers that would be delivered at conferences, the predictability of conferences, and whether virtual conferences will become more of a permanent fixture. The article also states that the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is establishing a task force.

The article offers opinions on the changing role of journals and conferences in the field of computer science, as of August 2011. It is noted that presenting a paper at a reputable conference has become nearly as prestigious as publishing in a peer-reviewed journal, and has the advantage of disseminating information more rapidly.

The author presents an argument that the field of computer science should move away from its use of conferences as a venue for the primary publication of research papers, and adopt an approach more in line with that of other scholarly disciplines, which would involve the use of peer-reviewed journals as the primary venue for publication of original research, and conferences as a forum for professional discussions and networking.

The author argues that the organization the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and other professional computing organizations conduct and implement significant policy changes that enable the authors of accepted scholarly papers to the various organizational conferences to contribute to the conferences remotely in order to cut down on travel costs and carbon emissions.

The article presents news related to computer industry. The Division of Materials Development and Research of the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Science and Engineering Education is soliciting proposals for projects that will explore the consequences of the availability of calculators and computers for the elementary mathematics curriculum. John R. B. Clement has been appointed to the new position of director of governmental activities by the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. Since its founding, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) has been concerned with measurement and with determining the precise values and metrics for physical phenomena. It has also made contributions to metrology in numerous scientific and engineering disciplines. The Computer Measurement Research Facility project at NBS is developing a set of metrics and measurement techniques to characterize the performance of parallel processing systems. The Computer Measurement Group (GMG) has announced an awards program for students submitting technical papers to the GMG 86 Conference, to be held from December 9-12, 1986, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Under this program, GMG will pay the costs associated with a student's participation in the conference, including registration, hotel accommodations, and round-trip airfare.

The article presents a schedule of various conferences related to computer science research. Twenty-seven Professional Development Seminars covering computing and data processing topics are to be offered at the 1985 National Computer Conference, which will be held from July 15-18, 1985, in Chicago, Illinois. ACM's 16th North American Computer Chess Championship is to be held from October 13-15, 1985, at the 1985 ACM Annual Conference, which will take place from October 14-16, 1985, in Denver, Colorado. Papers on computer networks are solicited for the Pacific Computer Communication Symposium to be held from October 22-24, 1985, in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Some of the areas of interest include network protocols, international and regional computer networks, gateway architecture and internetworking, metropolitan area networks and local area networks. Original research contributions are solicited for the Sixth International Conference on Information Systems to be held from December 16-18, 1985, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The article reports on the software maintenance workshop hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California in December 1983. Attendees include people from the Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and Japan. The major issues addressed were about the software maintenance technology and how to use it to solve current maintenance problems. Information about several papers discussed during the gathering, and the arguments and suggestions related to the issues, are offered.

The article presents information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 1985 ACM Computer Science Conference, which is scheduled to be held from March 12-14, 1985, in New Orleans, Louisiana, is enhancing its format. SIGGRAPH 84 which will take place from July 23-27, 1984, has announced course offerings in medical computer graphics, entrepreneurship, technologies of interactive video, bitmap graphics, mathematics of computer graphics, and advanced topics in curves and surfaces. The Institute for Applied Forth Research Inc. is sponsoring the fourth annual Rochester Forth Applications Conference, to be held at the University of Rochester, New York, from June 5-9, 1984. A call for papers has been issued for the Fourth Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, which is planned to be held from December 13-15, 1984, in Bangalore, India. The scheduled site for the First International Conference on Computers and Applications, to be held from June 20-22, 1984, is Beijing, China.

This article offers information on the professional activities of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The theme of the 1983 Annual Conference of the ACM to be held in New York City will be "Extending the Human Resource." Papers on advances in computer communication are invited for the International Symposium on the Performance of Computer Communications to be held in Zurich, Switzerland. The possibility of travel grants from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research will be announced during the 1983 International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic in Kyoto, Japan.

This article presents news and events related to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The advance program for the International Conference on Software Engineering, September 13-16, 1982, in Tokyo, includes sessions on language processing; software configuration management; quantitative aspects of software; requirement techniques; programming environments; maintenance evaluation and tools; specification techniques; testing and tools; software notations; and program analysis. Up to two $1000 prizes for best submitted papers are to be awarded by the Technical Committee on Software Engineering. The Symposium on Programming Language Issues in Software Systems sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, to be held during June 27-29, 1983 in San Francisco, California, is to focus on innovation in two major areas: new programming language constructs and abstraction mechanisms; and the application of programming language principles to the design of software systems. Relevant topics in the first area encompass languages or language constructs; abstraction techniques; specification methods; and techniques for supporting concurrency or exception handling. In the second area topics include the application of programming language principles and techniques to the design and organization of software systems.

It is increasingly recognized that large-scale technologies such as EFT have the potential for aiding in the solution of current societal problems. Yet, these technologies also generate problems. This symposium presents selected papers from a conference that sought to discover what is currently known about EFT impacts in society and what research is needed in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on various conferences. The Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology will be held during August 6-9,1978. The theme of the conference is "Computers, Communications, and Technology Transfer." In addition to the formal program, a program of social, historical, travel, and professional interest is available to the attendees. The symposium titled "Minis and Micros: Today's Industrial Revolution," will be held on May 12, 1978, in Columbus, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery East Central Region and Central Ohio Chapter. The conference will deal with current and future applications of mini and micro computer systems, both in industry and the home. The 1978 Winter Simulation Conference, planned for December 4-6, 1978, in Miami Beach, Florida, will feature papers and panel discussions on discrete and combined simulation. The theme of the Annual Joint Engineering Management Conference, to be held during October 16-17, 1978, in Denver, Colorado, is "Engineering Management in the Computer Age." Sessions are scheduled on software acquisition planning and system implementation; computer aided management; and the future of management use of computers.