http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/ A Service for the Computing Research Community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 “Yes, Computer Scientists Are Hypercritical” » CCC Blog Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:47:38 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1952 [...] talked about the notion of hypercriticality in computer science in this space before (see here and here), and now Jeannette M. Wing – the former National Science Foundation [...] [...] talked about the notion of hypercriticality in computer science in this space before (see here and here), and now Jeannette M. Wing – the former National Science Foundation [...]

]]> http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1349 ruzenabajcsy Tue, 11 May 2010 05:26:01 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1349 I very much agree with the comments with one caviat:<br>at NSF the reviews are only advisory so the program director has the flexibility to reverse the recommendations.<br>Too few choose to do so in part because they may not be confident in their own judgments. It is easire to say the panel said so and so..The implictaion si that we need to send highly competent,active researchers as program directors . I very much agree with the comments with one caviat:
at NSF the reviews are only advisory so the program director has the flexibility to reverse the recommendations.
Too few choose to do so in part because they may not be confident in their own judgments. It is easire to say the panel said so and so..The implictaion si that we need to send highly competent,active researchers as program directors .

]]> http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1348 davidnotkin Tue, 11 May 2010 00:19:03 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1348 As an EIC of a journal, I have been asking my AEs and reviewers to actually review the paper, rather than to state how they would instead do the work. I suspect in many cases, we do the opposite, reviewing proposals and papers in light of how we would do it. But that is not the question we are asked, nor should it be. As an EIC of a journal, I have been asking my AEs and reviewers to actually review the paper, rather than to state how they would instead do the work. I suspect in many cases, we do the opposite, reviewing proposals and papers in light of how we would do it. But that is not the question we are asked, nor should it be.

]]> http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1347 billfeiereisen Mon, 10 May 2010 20:23:37 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1347 There is an interesting paper by Virginia Walbot on a paper reviews in biology (<a href="http://jbiol.com/content/8/3/24" rel="nofollow">http://jbiol.com/content/8/3/24</a>). Do her observations point at similar underlying review issues? There is an interesting paper by Virginia Walbot on a paper reviews in biology (http://jbiol.com/content/8/3/24). Do her observations point at similar underlying review issues?

]]> http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Computing Community Consortium Mon, 10 May 2010 00:47:41 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1346 [...] Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews [...] [...] Fratricide and the Ecology of Proposal Reviews [...]

]]> http://www.cccblog.org/2010/05/04/fratricide-and-the-ecology-of-proposal-reviews/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 henningschulzrinne Tue, 04 May 2010 23:52:38 +0000 http://www.cccblog.org/?p=584#comment-1344 One (completely unsubstantiated) theory: In the computing field, we have evolved towards a culture of extremely selective conferences, publishing only one in ten submitted papers. It is not surprising that the same attitude and mindset gets carried into proposal reviews - after all, it feels like a technical program committee meeting... One (completely unsubstantiated) theory: In the computing field, we have evolved towards a culture of extremely selective conferences, publishing only one in ten submitted papers. It is not surprising that the same attitude and mindset gets carried into proposal reviews – after all, it feels like a technical program committee meeting…

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