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This assumes most academics are more interested in good research than publishing papers or looking objectively at software they spent years writing without any
by dkural 12y ago
This assumes most academics are more interested in good research than publishing papers or looking objectively at software they spent years writing without any fundamentally new ideas.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoSystems is much more practical as an academic field. For example, Googlers are heavily involved in high-end systems research, and they really are just interested in good research vs. increasing their paper counts (which they doesn't help them much in their career in industry). The tier one systems conferences, OSDI and SOSP, also only accept much fewer papers a year than most fields (~30 vs. 60+) with about the same number of active researchers. The culture of your field really helps in this regard.
- vilhelm_s 12y agoEven if each individual researcher mostly cares about getting publications, the way to get published is to do work that other researchers think is interesting and important. Perhaps the mechanism by which a paper like this can change a field is not by causing a particular person to reevaluate their own research agenda, but by changing the opinion of reviewers (who were not necessarily invested in that agenda to begin with).