Collusion is one of two major problems with modern research in CS. The other one, perhaps even bigger, is its lack of substance and relevance. Most research is

Collusion is one of two major problems with modern research in CS. The other one, perhaps even bigger, is its lack of substance and relevance. Most research is meant to fill out resumes with long lists of papers on impressive-sounding venues and bump institutional numbers in order to get more money and promotions. Never mind how naive, irrelevant, inapplicable or unrepresentative that research is. It's, of course, a very hard problem to solve. It takes a lot of effort to evaluate the real impact of research.