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Moshe Vardi suggests taking advantage of this year's disruption to the dysfunctional computer science conference publication system by setting up a replacement that is more scalable and doesn't involve large amounts of carbon-expensive travel: cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/1/

He doesn't really say what this new system (or old journal system?) should be, though, only that we should design it.

Relatedly: IEEE relents on corrections to conference papers, statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

cacm.acm.orgReboot the Computing-Research Publication SystemsThe virtualization of conferences due to COVID-19 has sharpened my conviction that the computing-research publication system is badly broken and in need of a serious reboot.