elitism at NIPS

[Raymond Lister]

> From Dave_Touretzky at cs.cmu.edu Sat Dec 17 14:53:02 1994
> To: Connectionists at cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: elitism at NIPS
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 94 03:22:31 EST
> 
> ...
> 
> * This year we required authors to submit full papers, not just abstracts.
>   That made it harder for "famous" people to get by on their reputation
>   alone, and easier for "non-famous" people to get good papers in.

The move to full papers was a good change.  It would be better still if the
copies of papers sent to referees did not contain the names and addresses
of authors.

Raymond Lister,
School of Computing Science,
Queensland University of Technology,
AUSTRALIA

Internet: raymond at fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au