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some of us made a big effort to get anyone at the IEEE or ACM to care about this ISCA'19 incident. The initial investigation by Torrellas was run mostly by ISC
by pbzcnepu 6y ago
some of us made a big effort to get anyone at the IEEE or ACM to care about this ISCA'19 incident. The initial investigation by Torrellas was run mostly by ISCA insiders with conflicts of interest, and mostly seemed to be a stall tactic. They did eventually open a new investigation.
ISCA'20 should really have been cancelled until this was resolved.
See a timeline of our attempts to get anyone at ACM/IEEE to care: http://pbzcnepu.net/isca/timeline.html http://pbzcnepu.net/isca/timeline.html
- throwawayiionqz 6y agoI am wondering if the NSF program officers responsible for overseeing the grants should be contacted as they would be in power to make the University and the PIs accountable and/or start their own investigations. They can be easily found in grant webpages, eg https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900713 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900713
- pbzcnepu 6y agoThe program officers were contacted, leading to the OIG being notified on 6 December 2019 and supposedly an investigation was openened, but we have not heard anything back since then.
- obmelvin 6y agoI just want to thank you for your actions and ask if you have any advice for career paths to do something about this type of academic bullshit. My GF is currently pursuing a PhD in biochem but very interested in pursuing science policy so that she can do something about all the injustice one witnesses as a graduate student. As someone who received both their B.S. and M.S. at UIUC, I'm honestly disgusted at how various professors and administration have handled certain incidents that my friends have been part of
- pbzcnepu 6y agothere's really not much one can do. In Comp Arch, most of the honest people left the field years ago because they got sick of all this nonsense. Most were happy to let those left behind play their silly peer-review games, but when the student suicide happened it was like a call to action. It is easier to fight things from the outside, as the internal higher-ups have less power to mess up your life. It's interesting you mention UIUC, as traditionally that was the source of a lot of suspect papers. It was a running joke about the "coincidence" of how many people with UIUC connections managed to get papers into ISCA each year.
- idoeestuff 6y agocan you expand? i know the clique, but at least for the specific work i follow, the work isn't bad recently. of course, nothing surprises me.
- pbzcnepu 6y agoit isn't always that the work is bad, it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections. Not necessarily in an overt conspiratorial way like the recent allegations either. The reason people have latched on to the current set of allegations is there seems to be actual concrete proof of misconduct that can be acted on.
- ialsodoeestuff 6y ago> it's just the review process for getting in has always seemed to be easier for people with the right connections What is this insinuation based on? Do you have data on how many papers by "people with the right connections" are rejected, for example?
- idoeestuff 6y agoi think this is just anecdotal; this person is clearly in the community. i'm not sure this data is useful, because we'd disagree on "people with the right connections".