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The comment about papers not being read resonated with me. At one point I published a paper at a large IEEE conference where the only audience in the session w
by foobarian 6y ago
The comment about papers not being read resonated with me. At one point I published a paper at a large IEEE conference where the only audience in the session were the other paper presenters. And it was clear nobody wanted to be there. I didn't last long in that line of work after that :-)
- jseliger 6y agoIn the humanities, it's even worse. Academia is stuck in this negative equilibrium, and even though many individuals recognize this, few or no institutions have managed to get out of it. Tenure and publish-or-perish are both big problems. Publish-or-perish also wasn't the norm in most schools until relatively recently; today, so many schools want to be "research" schools, even when they have relatively little business doing so. https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-before-you-start-grad-school-in-english-literature-the-economic-financial-and-opportunity-costs/ https://jakeseliger.com/2012/05/22/what-you-should-know-befo...
- someguydave 6y agothe only thing propping the system up is unaccountable $billions in gov spending
- someguydave 6y agomeanwhile people in industry who might want to read your paper have to pay outrageous prices, even if they are IEEE members (you need to be society members and conference attendees to download the papers)