NIPS & double blind reviewing

[Grace Wahba]

> 
> Have you ever tried to write a paper without giving any 
> clue to your identity? ("In xxx we proved yyy and in this 
> paper we extend those results"). 
> It can seriously distort the 
> paper. Furthermore, many (most?) people submitting to 
> NIPS put their paper on their home page and even circulate
> it on this list, so a reviewer would have no trouble 
> finding out who the author was by using, for instance, 
> google. I fail to see any positives to blind  reviewing 
> and a lot of negatives. 
>