It's a current tragedy in computer science research: authors release a matlab blob (no source code) or no implementation at all. When asked, I've encountered th

It's a current tragedy in computer science research: authors release a matlab blob (no source code) or no implementation at all. When asked, I've encountered these answers: 1) An implementation is not important. We developed an algorithm! 2) Uh... the student who made the program already left and we can't find it. 3) [the student] I can no longer find my notes on which parameters I used to make the figures of the paper. Very rarely, nearly never, does one encounter a proper software release. Why? Many reasons--the key point is that only a handful of research institutions have technical staff on board to collect and curate software produced in house.