2022-03-19 01:33:24 RT @andrewkuznet: PhD students choosing an advisor this Fall: In the before-times, ~25 students & 2022-03-16 23:55:18 @cfiesler @UTAustin But I would also be surprised if UT was the only place that did this 2022-03-16 23:54:20 @cfiesler @UTAustin I think it really depends on who your chair is and lucky factors like that 2022-03-16 23:52:23 I know it's the case at many universities, but not all. Quite happy to have gotten raises at @UTAustin without needing outside offers. https://t.co/sUXoaKpjmH 2022-03-16 16:11:39 RT @UTCompSci: Congratulations to UT Computer Science professors Dr. Greg Durrett (@gregd_nlp) and Dr. Yuke Zhu (@yukez), who have earned t… 2022-03-14 22:04:03 @rdeviti Somehow the books are funnier for me than the series! 2022-03-14 20:15:04 Periodically I'm amazed at how well the books have aged. Written 50 to 100 years ago, they are still so fresh and fun to read! 2022-03-14 20:13:49 His books are an excellent stress buster, and it is comforting to know that there are so many books -- like when you are binge watching a series and know it has a lot of seasons! 2022-03-14 20:12:37 One of the things I've been doing to deal with pandemic stress is reading Wodehouse. I've been reading all his novels in the order they came out. I started with the Pothunters (1902) and recently finished Jill the Reckless (1921). Wodehouse kept writing until 1974! :) 2022-03-14 18:54:09 RT @melindagates: Women often tell me that child care is one of their greatest barriers to earning an income. Jashodaben Pravinchandra und… 2022-03-14 18:07:36 RT @RanjitJhala: Hi all, we're trying to improve #python error messages and would love to get your help! RT most appreciated! https://t.c… 2022-03-14 17:14:23 RT @karthikr: A very insightful thread by @penberg on the evolution of modern applications! This topic is near and dear to our hearts at @Y… 2022-03-14 17:12:04 RT @penberg: Latency is increasingly important across variety of use cases. For example, in e-commerce, going beyond single digit milliseco… 2022-03-14 16:35:13 RT @thegautamkamath: At an invited seminar: only 3-4 people showed up, and one had to leave early. Presenting an hour-long talk to a ghost… 2022-03-14 16:34:19 @Obdurodon Thank you for the kind words :) I'm glad I stuck with it too! 2022-03-14 16:05:15 My very first conference talk in grad school. Flew thousands of miles to give it. Six people in the audience (it was multi track), three of whom were other presenters. Almost quit grad school over the experience. https://t.co/F9574IfvVw 2022-03-14 15:02:18 @MichiganSystems @iangneal @UMengineering Congratulations @iangneal ! 2022-03-14 02:38:26 @lindsey Am i missing something? It seems like the bug has more to do with Uber not handling a new error correctly (because "growth") than anything related to idempotency 2022-03-13 23:48:26 @scottniekum We'll miss you Scott! Good luck for the next adventure :) 2022-03-13 21:25:54 RT @scottniekum: Thus, we decided it was time for us to go. That said, I want to thank all my wonderful colleagues and collaborators at UTC… 2022-03-13 21:25:52 RT @scottniekum: Concealed carry on campus 2022-03-13 21:25:51 RT @scottniekum: And finally, while UTCS was an amazing department to be a part of, the state of Texas...not so much. At first, we just rol… 2022-03-13 00:17:06 RT @TweetAtAKK: Inspiration credit: https://t.co/WdClKIR8fQ Also, a must read blog post! 2022-03-12 20:21:24 @thegautamkamath They should send email either way! 2022-03-12 16:02:39 RT @Anjali_IP: Just received NSF reviews back for a grant submitted in June 2021. Was told that I wasn't as productive as I could have been… 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-25 08:14:47 RT @utexasece: Prof. Alex Dimakis of @utexasece has been selected to serve on the Commission on Artificial Intelligence Competitiveness, In… 2022-01-25 01:55:31 Yes it is https://t.co/PHQkZjnFOh 2022-01-25 01:54:51 @moyix I wonder this too! It feels impossible with git and email 2022-01-25 01:54:31 @moyix @Bruceshenzk I have students contribute to open source as part of one of my courses and I don't include the Linux kernel on there since it's not beginner friendly at all. Super intimidating 2022-01-25 01:53:23 @moyix @Bruceshenzk I'm talking about kernel development in general, not this work in particular :) 2022-01-25 01:52:59 @moyix @Bruceshenzk I feel like it is very disorganized and hard to follow though. All the patches have versions and multiple parts.. 2022-01-25 00:09:06 RT @TexasScience: Congrats to Hovav Shacham (@hovav) and colleagues for winning honorable mention in the @NSAGov's Best Cybersecurity Resea… 2022-01-24 18:47:01 RT @siobhcroo: Congratulations to all of you who got a paper accepted to #Eurosys. Reminder to submit your papers to the Artefact Evaluatio… 2022-01-24 16:52:36 HelloSign wins an award for most cumbersome way to sign something. Please learn from @DocuSign! 2022-01-24 15:47:28 There are no page limits for JSys papers. While we encourage authors to get their message across in the first few pages, you don't have to scrunch your graphs or spend time hunting for latex hacks before submitting to JSys. 2022-01-24 15:46:15 @jsysresearch JSys has different paper types, each with clearly defined accept/reject criteria. See for example, Systemization of Knowledge paper criteria: https://t.co/rZMR2B8nz9 2022-01-24 15:44:48 The first @jsysresearch deadline for 22 is coming up! Check out the CFP: JSys is accepting papers in 11 areas! If you submit by Feb 1st, you will get initial reviews by Mar 15 (with an accept/reject/revise decision) Diamond open-access: $0 for publishing or reading papers! https://t.co/QsUtXkSLwq 2022-01-24 15:29:39 RT @WeThePeopleCLE: Someone in Lakewood dons a unicorn costume while snow blowing and this is the kind of community I want. https://t.co/yY… 2022-01-24 00:18:49 RT @dave_andersen: I often tell mynPhD students they should be able to regenerate the figures from a paper with one 'make' invocation. This… 2022-01-23 18:30:01 RT @ShriramKMurthi: @georgemporter @srivoire @vj_chidambaram Saying this up top! https://t.co/yMjeNuvGZp https://t.co/cYidXIioKX 2022-01-23 18:29:22 @dantsafrir Fair point, this is limited to computer science. Not sure how it is in other disciplines. 2022-01-23 17:10:42 RT @siobhcroo: New Sigmod submission deadline in April! 2022-01-23 15:44:30 I didn't know this when I was in India either. It blew my mind that we would get paid for getting a PhD. When I was in undergrad, I viewed a PhD from the lens of taking classes: I get paid to take classes?? A PhD is an apprenticeship: that's why you get paid. https://t.co/CyX7lDstJd 2022-01-23 02:41:37 RT @FamiliesFwdVA: A new public library in my area has these work stations for caregivers with babies! Maybe these are common in other plac… 2022-01-23 01:16:42 @zholbro @palvaro Happy birthday @palvaro! 2022-01-22 21:21:12 RT @margsala: If anyone is wondering why working parents in academia right now are losing it right now… a thread of what January has been l… 2022-01-22 15:43:36 RT @BNODesk: BREAKING: U.S. reports 3,707 new coronavirus deaths, highest since February 2021 2022-01-22 12:04:11 RT @biomilly: My timeline is just flooded with moms in #academia that are exhausted and about to give up. There are some men, but 95% are #… 2022-01-21 23:27:59 RT @grimalkina: If you have a robust skincare routine you have demonstrated aptitude in many core skills of data science. I will not be tak… 2022-01-21 21:18:59 RT @eegilbert: I took a little time today and nominated a number of @michigandaily reporters for the Pulitzer Prize, for their investigativ… 2022-01-20 16:36:17 RT @AlexGDimakis: UT Austin ranked No 1 among US universities in NSF funding ($144 million in 2020). Our AI institute (IFML) featured in th… 2022-01-20 16:05:59 RT @England_Weber: Austin’s opening *ALL* libraries and senior/rec centers to people outdoors who need to get warm today. Warming centers… 2022-01-20 15:24:05 @Chad_Kun_Kawaii I had a thread about this somewhere, let me see if I can find it 2022-01-20 15:23:23 @harshith712 Not at all. Its becoming more and more competitive with time. But in my area at least (systems), the requirements for doing research haven't changed much 2022-01-20 15:22:05 @dhruvsgarg I had a thread about it somewhere, but twitter makes it hard to find. But long story short, you need a lot of things to align for a PhD: a good advisor, good cohort, financial situation, etc. 2022-01-20 00:19:58 @ravenben Congratulations! 2022-01-20 00:07:11 RT @WIRED: Using a variety of techniques, Computer scientist Amit Sahai, Ph.D., breaks down what zero-knowledge proofs are and why it's so… 2022-01-19 20:06:16 RT @AlexGDimakis: ACM Fellows for 2021 announced: Congratulations to UT Austin colleagues: Brent Waters and David Z. Pan! https://t.co/zCec… 2022-01-19 17:52:35 RT @TheOfficialACM: We are delighted to announce the 71 ACM members who have been selected as 2021 #ACMFellows! Coming from around the worl… 2022-01-19 04:10:17 Wordle 213 5/6, got lucky at the end! 2022-01-18 23:13:33 @TweetAtAKK @ziamurai @AaronJElmore @schemeprincess @danrkports You basically get nothing else done during that month The senior folks in systems take this seriously and do a great job! It comes from the early days of systems when you could fit the community in a small room. 2022-01-18 23:02:13 At 22 I was doing my Masters at Wisconsin Madison. I had no intention of getting a PhD or becoming a prof then. I wanted to get a job at a tech company and buy a fancy car. https://t.co/ZzQypNxTVk 2022-01-18 18:39:55 RT @tianyin_xu: ASPLOS has decided to change to 3 deadlines per year, starting from 2023! Great decision! @ASPLOSConf @JamesLarus 2022-01-18 18:32:30 @pramod_bhatotia Congratulations! 2022-01-18 18:32:20 RT @syardi: Here are some ideas that @umich could consider to address what is clearly a large and systemic cultural problem around abuse a… 2022-01-18 14:10:44 RT @IanColdwater: At 22 I had a preschooler, was on food stamps, and started my first year of community college after dropping out of high… 2022-01-18 12:24:34 RT @c_cadar: Delighted to chair the @EuroSys_conf Jochen Liedtke Young Researcher Award this year. Please consider nominating talented Eur… 2022-01-18 04:36:44 RT @astrocaits: Are you an astronomy undergrad interested in a summer research gig?! This long listing programs is for you. Spread the wo… 2022-01-18 01:07:36 @thegautamkamath There is an infinite amount of talk about this on Twitter (and all sorts of fancy schemes), but few who actually do something when they become PC chairs. When those few try something, I think we shouldn't knock it. 2022-01-17 19:08:09 RT @elzr: I want to manipulate equations on screen better than on paper. Digitizing math script is so tiring, we usually just jump to auto… 2022-01-17 16:11:46 Jumping on to this trend. Wordle 212 3/6 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-12 21:19:24 RT @VasundharaNLP: Quick thread to teach you a tiny bit of linguistics, using Malayalam examples. (This is an attempt at #LingComm!) 2022-01-12 15:49:14 RT @koronkebitch: tag urself https://t.co/quFUjptC43 2022-01-12 13:16:18 RT @TrumanLab: $11,390 is absolutely disgusting. Think of how this money could be better used ie to to pay students and postdocs. There is… 2022-01-12 12:28:32 RT @zistvan: Systems-twitter: Consider submitting your in-progress work to the SPMA workshop that we are organizing at @EuroSys_conf (dead… 2022-01-12 02:26:48 Congratulations @sangeetha_a_j! https://t.co/SWfjBhNDvn 2022-01-11 19:53:14 RT @kwbogen: I’m a PhD student in Clin Psych at UNL. My stipend is $16,200, but I pay $1,900 in mandatory fees per semester & 2022-01-11 16:09:05 @EarlenceF @moyix Yup! At @jsysresearch a revision is a contract between the reviewers and the authors. If the authors do X, then the paper must be accepted. It's unfortunate that some confs don't enforce this contract. 2022-01-11 11:43:07 RT @dave_andersen: This isn't a covid tweet, but maybe it is. Only one of my two best friends from high school & 2022-01-11 09:38:37 RT @AliceDreger: My mom just said to me, "We're all going to get it now, so why not just give up and go back to normal?" So this is what I… 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-06 03:58:04 RT @julieletchner: Many of my former professors are zealously distancing themselves from Playdoh Flamingo's nonsense. That is the right thi… 2022-01-05 21:58:26 RT @AndersMiltner: I am on the academic job market this year! I’m a PL researcher working in synthesis and automated verification. I want t… 2022-01-05 14:32:53 RT @janexwang: Ok, I have to say something. I’ve heard the argument many times that DEI efforts force us to “lower the bar” in order to be… 2022-01-03 04:23:30 RT @IMScChennai: .@IMScChennai turns 60 today (Jan 3, 2022). To mark this momentous occasion, join the virtual event at 1530 IST to kick-of… 2022-01-01 18:47:42 @sdstrowes I love railroad tycoon! 2022-01-01 02:22:44 RT @philipshilane: https://t.co/hmZb4Fc9c3 2022-01-01 02:22:01 RT @madebymaIin: happy new year friends https://t.co/1W1RWs6K5v 2021-12-31 16:24:28 RT @BarackObama: If you're feeling discouraged about our democracy, read this article about how citizens in Michigan took politics out of t… 2021-12-31 15:37:34 God, so sick of the "here are 10 things about X, a thread" propping up everywhere. Muting muting muting 2021-12-31 03:05:49 RT @MicahPollak: After the disappointing news from the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine trials for age < 2021-12-31 02:41:44 RT @DeirdreS: New from me: Problematic employers in tech https://t.co/p223wYjuxp 2021-12-31 02:34:48 RT @MarkCallaghanDB: The ribbon filter in RocksDB uses more CPU to save on memory vs a bloom filter. https://t.co/ZVjbfsKinZ 2021-12-30 23:55:09 RT @JoannaMasel: Many are torn between frustration and sympathy for @CDCgov. Given all the things CDC are failing to get done (eg rapid dat… 2021-12-30 16:35:36 We are quite happy with our start, and look forward to another successful year for JSys! 2021-12-30 16:34:34 Check out our blog post about the first year of JSys in review! Overall: - We reviewed 10 submissions - We evaluated 6 artifacts - We published 4 papers All of this was done with zero cost to authors or readers. https://t.co/SyG8fsJnry 2021-12-30 04:53:24 RT @jesslynnrose: The function of a system is its output. If you have dog grooming machine that sometimes smashes puppies and you keep run… 2021-12-30 04:17:34 @georgemporter Seriously, so many lessons from the Great British Bake off in both how to compete and how to criticize or judge 2021-12-30 04:15:41 RT @georgemporter: Let's all bring this energy to 2022 https://t.co/oSp1cssghG 2021-12-30 03:11:44 RT @tplohetski: Austin broke its 98-year-old record high for this day, reports @chrisnunley, reaching 82 degrees at Camp Mabry. The previou… 2021-12-29 22:05:50 RT @DataDrivenMD: Not getting discussed enough: Dr. Hotez and his colleagues at Texas Children's have done what Pfizer and Moderna won't— d… 2021-12-29 17:22:14 RT @OldTamilPoetry: It's been 5 yrs since I started this project. If you appreciate what I do, you can buy me a coffee at https://t.co/IbJR… 2021-12-29 14:44:02 @arnabdotorg @CGSGradEd The university is Canadian, so it doesn't participate in the resolution 2021-12-29 03:08:47 @danrkports @skandhurkat https://t.co/FHa5m0j5zh 2021-12-29 03:06:45 @barik Wow that's a whole other level of bad! 2021-12-29 03:03:00 RT @JAldrichPL: Grad school applicants, if you get an offer like this, don't accept it. First of all, it's a sign that you're good enough… 2021-12-29 02:56:14 @georgemporter @ahmad_saeed @barik Fully agree :) but I also feel like you would act in the students best interest in the first place and not give short fuse offers 2021-12-29 02:03:01 @ahmad_saeed @barik That's definitely one option, but people remember such things and a prof who gives a short fuse to a PhD student could very well be the kind who remembers a grudge.. 2021-12-29 01:07:05 @ppadala The student is given X days to commit to a PhD offer 2021-12-29 00:25:56 Fellow profs who try to give "fuses" to grad students trying to decide between offers: this is a bad tactic, and it spoils your name. A PhD advisor should look out for their student, and if they get an offer that would be better for them, you should encourage them to take it. 2021-12-28 22:38:49 RT @tdih_hpc: Dec 28, 1903: BDay of John von Neumann, a founding figure in the field of computing, inventor of the merge sort algorithm, an… 2021-12-28 20:02:10 RT @LawtonTri: In conversation with @microlabdoc earlier, I discovered that not everyone knows of the hamster's prodigious capacity for alc… 2021-12-28 14:52:49 RT @ScribnerBooks: Looking for a science book that's a "witty and fun read"? @PhysicsToday recommends #TheEndofEverything by @AstroKatie. h… 2021-12-28 04:01:01 RT @michaelmina_lab: Someone KNOWN to be Pos for 5 days is, in my view, still one of the highest risk individuals in society for onward spr… 2021-12-27 23:56:07 The CDC somehow finds ways to say exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. Saying this just as omicron cases are shooting up is... https://t.co/fj4TNa3nVt 2021-12-27 20:34:21 RT @BrunoDaSilvaSE: We do a lot of the items listed below in our SE degree at Cal Poly. 2021-12-27 18:17:57 RT @norootcause: As a software developer, you may be called upon to perform some of these tasks in your career. How well a CS degree prepa… 2021-12-27 17:25:31 RT @austintexasgov: #HappyBirthday to the Live Music Capital of the World! On this day in 1839, Austin was officially incorporated as a c… 2021-12-27 17:24:01 RT @DrLisaBThompson: The lawyer who argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case in the U.S. Supreme Court (when she was in her 20s!) was a Texan,… 2021-12-27 16:04:41 @astrocaits @NASAWebb @NASAHubble To make the comparison easier, the latest budget has the military spending 2B every *day* for the next year. So we could pay for JWST with only five days of military funding! 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-21 04:30:07 RT @RealSexyCyborg: @chrislhayes Hey Chris- I’m in Shenzhen, China. We’ve had 8 deaths from COVID out of 14 million people (the general ove… 2021-12-20 19:50:23 RT @softwarejameson: This chart is the best rationale for #accessibility that I’ve seen. There are 12 people, only 2 are deaf/blind. Acce… 2021-12-18 23:35:08 RT @tariquesdd: We are looking for summer interns for 2022 to work on exciting research projects in the areas of data systems and explorati… 2021-12-18 19:00:07 @johnregehr I don't want to share the link, but basically a prof in Tenesse tweeting stuff like "if you don't publish in big venues you must have small minds" and then being "haha I'm very clever this is satire". I'm told he told this regularly. 2021-12-18 17:00:52 I might be too dumb to appreciate "satire", but tweeting hurtful, misleading things that students could actually believe for internet likes is disgusting and pathetic. If you need to see the comments to know whether it is satire, it's not satire. 2021-12-18 15:56:24 RT @rrwilliams: I'm seeing this a lot in my timeline. Strongly disagree with "research should be X" and "if your research has a Y, you're d… 2021-12-18 14:26:21 RT @jkosseff: Because I'm friends with a bunch of privacy folks on here, I want to give a PSA about an oddly worded request for info about… 2021-12-18 14:24:27 RT @Ben_Pfaff: I am furious that Princeton researchers sent scam email to Open vSwitch conference organizers and many others. @RossTeixeira… 2021-12-18 04:24:28 RT @AnimeCiity: L'animé "Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War" débutera en Automne 2022 !!! https://t.co/FqXxSilg6l 2021-12-18 02:50:17 RT @shutupElizmoe: if you live in dc and you don’t know about the free at-home covid tests available at over 25 public libraries and rec ce… 2021-12-18 02:25:52 There are lots of different ways of doing research, just as there are lots of different motivation to do research. I know successful researchers with various styles. By saying "if you are not doing X you are wrong" we do a disservice to students reading the tweet. https://t.co/yan2L9JUUO 2021-12-18 01:49:57 @EthanCecchetti Yes, I think proof-of-work doesn't prevent organizations from buying up nodes in the system. Unclear whether any protocol can do this without trusted nodes or centralization in the system. 2021-12-18 00:19:23 So Georgia Tech knew about the abuse Genkin was doing at Michigan, and their reaction was "Oh wow can we get him here so that he can abuse our students?" What an administration. Is being known as a place that enthusiastically hires abusers worth whatever Genkin brought? https://t.co/NFrJOY4AN2 2021-12-17 23:43:30 RT @realhamed: Faculty Jobs! @imperialcollege invites applications for up to 13 full-time permanent faculty positions. in AI/ML/Digital Tec… 2021-12-17 21:45:50 Proof-of-stake is efficient, but "whoever has the gold makes the rules" is not really different from centralization. Just different masters I guess. So is this a case of pick-your-poison? I'm not really sure. 2021-12-17 21:44:44 I think a more interesting discussion, which is lightly mentioned in the article is whether true decentralization can ever be efficient. Proof-of-work achieves decentralization, but is extremely inefficient. 2021-12-17 21:41:41 The problem with basing the argument on Ethereum being slow is that lots of good technologies have started out slow and impractical, and become better over time. Nobody disputes proof-of-work is horrendously inefficient, and there are people working on making that better. 2021-12-17 21:40:27 Its not really what web3 "is", but I think making the case that NFTs for example are fraud is much easier (and more concrete). Things like selling "shares" of a Banksy exhibit so that the "public" can "own it", is fraud. 2021-12-17 21:38:44 Interesting article. It basically boils down into "Ethereum right now is slow, expensive, and impractical, so all the hype is unwarranted. Don't get fooled by hype". I agree, but I also don't feel this translates to "web3 is outright fraud". I'm not a web3 fan btw. https://t.co/hblTc9gLxu 2021-12-17 02:46:14 RT @moribajah: I’m in tears “Dear Dr. Jah, This is Unidos, a new student organization at LBJ. After seeing your LinkedIn post indicating… 2021-12-16 17:31:09 RT @sibinmohan: The entire thing is scary but this part is just…off the charts! Read how the NSO group used a zero click attack on Apple d… 2021-12-15 22:55:23 @narseo @IMDEA_Networks Congratulations! 2021-12-15 21:12:12 RT @rappet_: load balancer (layer 1) https://t.co/2f1opvvzBX 2021-12-15 21:11:45 RT @KhoaVuUmn: overfull hbox, badness 10000 https://t.co/Bn6BcvJXsH 2021-12-15 19:06:47 RT @DotTheophilus: Just a reminder, the deadline for (self-)nominations for IMC'22 is in 5 days! Do not hesitate to reach out to @proffnes… 2021-12-15 16:36:34 RT @CharlesWMcKinn2: Professor - Hi. I was wondering: do you have the syllabus ready for the spring semester class I’m taking with you? I w… 2021-12-15 15:34:30 @bariskasikci Congratulations! 2021-12-15 14:57:37 RT @skinnylatte: My favorite phrase in Indian English, out of many, is ‘enthu cutlet’. Someone who is overly enthusiastic is somehow, also,… 2021-12-15 05:11:13 RT @jonnyplatt: Excited to announce I just received my Christmas present from @awscloud! Horrified to see it's $45,000 in charges due… 2021-12-15 00:47:04 Loved this accessible overview of quantum computing and where things stand today. https://t.co/39pYU9ECO9 2021-12-15 00:02:40 RT @wonderofscience: A peaceful moment in the snow with the largest trees in the world, the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), captu… 2021-12-14 18:50:55 RT @AishwaryaGanlat: I am on the academic job market this cycle. I work in the general area of computer systems, with a particular focus on… 2021-12-14 16:54:40 RT @dantsafrir: Gilles was my friend, and I will miss him https://t.co/NXQOBsPpFQ 2021-12-14 14:18:23 RT @TropicaliJaye: when @people magazine understands the assignment better than @time: https://t.co/wcY7olAQJ0 2021-12-14 02:56:18 RT @vijisathy: Idk who needs to hear this but you can love your job and find it deeply meaningful, and yet still want to work only a certai… 2021-12-14 00:20:21 RT @crosscutanne: @vj_chidambaram @masulb @projectn95 Please tell others. We are nonprofit #HereToHelp all who want quality respiratory pro… 2021-12-13 20:48:44 @masulb @projectn95 Thank you for doing this! Its a great initiative! 2021-12-13 19:18:40 RT @ubiquity75: I read some article about an academic wunderkind who answers all his email and works till 11 pm six nights per week, and wa… 2021-12-13 17:59:41 RT @loishh: today I found out that searching my own name on @opensea brings up 132 instances where my art was minted as NFTs without my per… 2021-12-13 16:20:10 RT @bighpcproject: The BigHPC project has a new paper accepted at FAST'22 @usenix! Congratulations to our team! @INESCTEC @AIST_EN @UTAus… 2021-12-13 05:31:54 RT @ashtonpittman: Only in America do public school teachers race one another to scrounge around on the floor to collect $1 bills in order… 2021-12-13 00:06:03 RT @minsuk_chang: KAIST plans to open a campus in NYC https://t.co/2vmdHyWlmF 2021-12-12 22:40:06 RT @deviparikh: New ML journal! As Hugo says in the thread (and note the last one in particular) - Uses OpenReview - Focuses on conference… 2021-12-12 18:42:30 Love this new experimental journal similar to JMLR! I like how accept is based on only two things: are the claims true, and would someone in the community (not necessarily the reviewers themselves) be interested in the paper. https://t.co/u5IAaXDB4r 2021-12-12 03:51:06 RT @MarkLevineNYC: “Every individual in Colorado can request up to eight tests per week.” Free rapid self tests sent to you by mail. NY… 2021-12-11 23:29:09 I didn't know about @projectn95 before! Was surprised by how cheap the masks were: $1 for a N95 mask! Free shipping. Just ordered. https://t.co/A0kLxbBEUd https://t.co/MwolYj9pFN 2021-12-11 23:24:37 RT @norootcause: OSS isn’t sustainable for the individuals involved. However, like the software gaming industry, there seems to be a never-… 2021-12-11 21:08:31 RT @obladioblada987: Surely Northwestern could word the last sentence better/ not say anything at all instead of saying this? https://t.co/… 2021-12-11 18:09:06 RT @dino_comics: multitasking https://t.co/bdMaNvhsr4 2021-12-11 02:52:04 Happy to share that our work on achieving fine-grained control over I/O with minimal modifications to applications got accepted to #fast22! Work led by @ricardogmacedo with @jtmpaulo and folks at @AIST_EN and @INESCTEC as part of the @bighpcproject! https://t.co/BLviQsJkzs 2021-12-11 01:26:54 RT @buitengebieden_: Meeting a dog for the first time in your life.. https://t.co/7X6K7jmswP 2021-12-10 23:33:13 @akbarmehdi @0xabU I think its used to help reviewers bid on papers they want to review. But a post submission bidding period seems to work just fine.. 2021-12-10 23:19:51 @danrkports @0xabU Regarding intentional I am not sure, things are decentralized enough that people might not have noticed.. 2021-12-10 23:18:33 @danrkports @0xabU https://t.co/Kd6tqkNC38 2021-12-10 23:11:58 @0xabU The annoying thing is that if the abstract deadline (of questionable utility) was not there, it wouldn't be simultaneous submissions. 2021-12-10 22:56:30 @0xabU Yeah https://t.co/N2NRz2NSLS 2021-12-10 22:42:37 @philipshilane Depending on what the rejection reasons were, there is plenty of time to do writing changes and submit to OSDI. This is a decision that should have been left to authors. 2021-12-10 21:49:52 Just noticed that NSDI 22 and FAST 22 rejected papers cannot be submitted to OSDI 22. I strongly disagree with this :( Decisions are stochastic enough that being rejected at NSDI says nothing really about acceptance or suitability for OSDI. 2021-12-10 14:22:39 @stub_AS Congratulations on the new job! Definitely a loss for ETH. Also, kudos for talking about this openly! It takes a lot of strength, and makes the field more transparent! Hope to catch up with you in person sometime soon! 2021-12-10 14:06:37 RT @haldaume3: Give me a break. This is about half the budget of CISE @NSF annually. => 2021-12-10 05:57:52 That sweet period of time when no one else on your team is working on your overleaf paper and you can push updates from the terminal without merge conflicts 2021-12-10 04:10:24 RT @proffnes: As @ACMSIGCOMM IMC'22 PC chairs, @DotTheophilus and I would like to invite a diverse program committee. To that end, we encou… 2021-12-10 01:38:34 RT @prashn_25: Great opportunity for Summer 2022 research internship at @vmwareresearch. We're looking for Ph.D. students interested in da… 2021-12-10 00:30:28 RT @johnregehr: today in "formal verification software requires testing just like all other software" we found a bug in an Alive2 formaliza… 2021-12-09 23:16:08 RT @Rajo_rani: I grew up with grandparents who insisted on keeping their non-British passports because “they could kick us out at any momen… 2021-12-09 22:31:50 RT @Rainmaker1973: This video (reduced to a 17 second gif) created by British psychological professor Richard Wiseman demonstrates the powe… 2021-12-09 22:17:26 RT @davidavdb: Honored to be able to serve as the next dean of @TexasScience @UTAustin 2021-12-09 22:01:49 RT @saiphcita: My research lab has been designing data driven tools for workers to quantify how much invisible labor they do & 2021-12-09 20:53:52 RT @AlexGDimakis: Reminder: We have multiple postdoc openings in our IFML institute. Topics include: ML Fundamentals, Optimization, Deep Le… 2021-12-09 20:33:44 RT @natefoster: @alexandra8silva et al., “Learning nominal automata,” POPL ‘17. https://t.co/1gHIpjM5ct https://t.co/NCMH723r3F 2021-12-09 19:31:17 RT @vkalavri: Are you working on #graph databases, graph algorithms, graph processing systems, graph ML, network science or related area? W… 2021-12-09 15:42:08 RT @MariaGorlatova: If I knew how much faculty appreciate "I loved your class" e-mails from students, I would have written a great many mor… 2021-12-09 15:25:11 RT @pramod_bhatotia: The sad demise of Gilles Muller is a major loss to the systems community: https://t.co/TvTFC3k4ej 2021-12-08 23:05:38 RT @UTChemistry: Congratulations to Yi Lu! He has been selected as a fellow of the @AcadofInventors, a prestigious distinction awarded to a… 2021-12-08 14:29:25 RT @martinkl: If you're interested in helping improve reproducibility in computer systems research, EuroSys 2022 is looking for volunteers… 2021-12-08 04:34:11 RT @IamGustav_: My Summary of 2021. https://t.co/NUAR0stR4d 2021-12-08 03:54:23 RT @hakeemjefferson: Going to say something I’ve said before, but this time with greater certainty that I’m right abt this: most department… 2021-12-08 03:50:44 RT @ThatSaraGoodman: Every academic, every December https://t.co/AaFU2vw2Rj 2021-12-07 21:13:03 RT @mdekstrand: Welcome to the United States, where highway robbery is entirely legal so long as it's done by the cops. https://t.co/uH1NNO… 2021-12-07 14:38:16 RT @gannimo: Are you on the faculty job market? We're looking for new colleagues @ICepfl in (systems|software) security. If you're interest… 2021-12-07 14:34:25 RT @zistvan: It's my pleasure to announce that Mark Silberstein, Antonio Barbalace and myself will be organizing SPMA again at EuroSys'22.… 2021-12-07 05:22:22 RT @margo_seltzer: This is posting #2, from OSDI 1999, inspired by @TaliaRinger https://t.co/xmV5zFOw8p 2021-12-07 03:14:58 RT @ameerrahmati: Application review season is coming up! If you are a CS faculty trying to review Iranian applicants, here is a quick guid… 2021-12-07 03:00:52 RT @vj_chidambaram: This is an excellent talk, accessible for a broad audience! Key point: new ideas are often impractical at first, we s… 2021-12-07 01:54:18 RT @mozhacks: In Firefox 95, we’re shipping a novel sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed in collaboration with researchers @UCSan… 2021-12-06 04:02:06 RT @margo_seltzer: @TaliaRinger has inspired me to dig up some of my favorite "kids at conferences" pictures ... https://t.co/xvsjUVxV35 2021-12-06 04:00:03 RT @ne_skazu: I'm sorry if I do this to you But you know, I'm trying not to https://t.co/JpV3L8a2jG 2021-12-06 03:10:06 RT @Eyesofgod__: The Moon And The Castle. Photography by Mauro Maione full moon viewed from the town hall building in Siena, Italy. https:/… 2021-12-06 03:09:37 RT @UrsulaV: So this weekend, armed with a couple of AI art programs, I started noodling around to see what I could do, and if I could put… 2021-12-06 00:20:53 Orderless and Eventually Durable File Systems https://t.co/vGhRiQr4Zk https://t.co/PxiC1Pr780 2021-12-05 18:45:22 RT @venus47203379: @wonderofscience This beautiful timelapse with the Milky Way stabilized is a reminder that the Earth is spinning through… 2021-12-05 18:42:59 @PooyanJamshidi Architecture does this all the time with simulators right? But then the requirement would be able to make your simulation model public. Other people must be able to inspect and modify it. 2021-12-05 18:19:58 RT @margo_seltzer: @TaliaRinger Yes! Bring your child - to hallway tracks, lunches, dinners, etc. And get really good at giving anyone th… 2021-12-05 17:32:28 RT @shaahrzaaad: My friend Saghar is a genius food blogger, and she has made her, soon to be published, cook book online. If you love Persi… 2021-12-05 16:02:59 RT @aceto_luca: I am happy to inform you of the launch of TheoretiCS (https://t.co/pJljFKxOjC) a new, diamond open-access journal in theore… 2021-12-05 00:35:40 @norootcause I've seen this from both unfortunately 2021-12-05 00:34:40 Insights in systems are very dependent on the exact problem we are trying to solve. The details matter. The context matters. Otherwise the solution becomes inane: "employ caching", "don't do redundant work". Jee thanks, glad to read your paper to discover that! 2021-12-05 00:32:23 So frustrating when a systems paper makes big, complex advances to the state-of-the-art and then keeps the code private. You can't build on the code, you can't run new experiments to compare against them, nothing. Publishing for the sake of publishing. 2021-12-04 22:47:20 @schemeprincess @bariskasikci @MariosKogias It was a great talk! It was good to hear about it in much more detail than sosp! 2021-12-04 22:46:28 @mnwsth Yeah, I didn't mean an unbounded perf penalty. But for meltdown and spectre, people accepted the 30 percent perf penalty since they didn't really have a choice. 2021-12-04 19:43:26 @pramod_bhatotia The talk linked in my first post talks about how people thought many of the costs were fundamental but later became optimized :) so there is hope! 2021-12-04 19:41:39 RT @AlexGDimakis: Top educators raising alarm for watering down K-12 math ed. https://t.co/qBerFq2qwW Since I designed the undergrad Data s… 2021-12-04 14:41:01 RT @BookmarksMag: The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Brazil. https://t.co/ltpYiZvKrY 2021-12-04 14:35:35 One notable exception seems to be security where we are comfortable with paying an overhead for security guarantees. But in the other areas of systems, in general reviewers expect good performance. 2021-12-04 14:28:42 This is an excellent talk, accessible for a broad audience! Key point: new ideas are often impractical at first, we shouldn't be deterred by this. Currently in systems though, I think an impractical system providing a breakthrough would have a hard time getting published. https://t.co/TU8m1jZMqB 2021-12-04 14:13:15 RT @EllipticKiwi: 2. After another 10 years it is fast enough to be practical, and has a totally unexpected application. (2/3) 2021-12-04 14:13:13 RT @EllipticKiwi: Galbraith's law: 1. Every 10 years someone invents some cryptography that is (at least) 10 times slower than the previou… 2021-12-03 23:39:10 RT @steph_mcca: banks email like "Ummmmm we have a MESSAGE for you. In your INBOX" and then the message is like "Hello we are your bank" 2021-12-03 19:28:07 RT @cuinfoscience: Our own @cfiesler is featured in the @WomeninAIEthics 2022 list of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics! https://t.co/MhWtbT… 2021-12-03 19:28:00 @cfiesler Congratulations! 2021-12-03 19:27:30 RT @siobhcroo: Dear all, we are recruiting artifact evaluation committee members for @EuroSys_conf. PhD students, postdocs and faculty welc… 2021-12-03 16:23:26 RT @ACMSIGOPS: #CFP The 15th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference #SYSTOR2022 invites technical submissions. The conference wi… 2021-12-03 01:14:49 RT @CSatETH: Getting a faculty position is a big challenge. In his video series, Dr @RiggerManuel shines a light on the process by asking y… 2021-12-02 18:53:25 RT @DAIRInstitute: We are @DAIRInstitute — an independent, community-rooted #AI research institute free from #BigTech's pervasive influence… 2021-12-02 17:58:23 This is great! I love that it is funded by the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Kapor Center. I think this funding is more aligned with their work that will often be critical of both big tech and governments. https://t.co/oKZpYX9o75 2021-12-02 17:41:54 RT @fintechjunkie: It didn’t take me long in the crypto world to realize that it’s an ecosystem being fueled by the “House Money Effect”.… 2021-12-02 15:56:28 RT @stepville: I’m still just out of my mind with anger at ACB’s comments today. You want people to carry a pregnancy to term, without fund… 2021-12-02 14:05:43 RT @miltos1: Our @RealAAAI'22 *rejected* paper: R1-Accept R2-Weak Accept R3-Borderline Accept R4-Accept Meta Review-"The reviewers all agre… 2021-12-02 04:21:45 RT @slayerfestx98: We regret to inform you, tomorrow starts the last month of the year https://t.co/0CaryCOW7u 2021-12-02 04:21:18 RT @thegautamkamath: Please share: looking for 2 grad students (fully funded) to join my group (@TheSalonML) at @UWCheritonCS! Deadline Dec… 2021-12-02 01:55:01 RT @WmBrangham: "I'm enraged...that this pandemic has continued so long." Listen to these people who are doing everything they can to prote… 2021-12-02 01:23:02 RT @KStraussIdeas: Great to see this paper out. It is the result of amazing work by a very talented Microsoft and University of Washington… 2021-12-01 23:34:35 RT @tallinzen: A lot of grad school and job applications are due today. A little known fact that might help calm your nerves a little: advi… 2021-12-01 23:26:06 RT @usenix: Is open access important to you? It's one of USENIX's priorities. Support our commitment to providing this content--freely avai… 2021-12-01 23:25:20 RT @Hippotas: ReInvent21 was very good for Amazon Redshift. Let's go over some of the announcements of the past few days: (1/14) 2021-12-01 22:37:25 RT @guyvdb: Sorry #AAAI2022 but a 15% acceptance rate is harmful to the community. Especially when I see lots of weak accept recommendation… 2021-12-01 21:59:48 @amypavel @UTCompSci Welcome to @UTCompSci! 2021-12-01 21:59:31 RT @amypavel: I am recruiting Ph.D. students to join my group in Fall 2022! If you’re interested in creating new interactive systems, HCI+A… 2021-12-01 21:29:56 RT @stub_AS: Am I missing anything in translating this to the following? -- Folks who "own" the fractional NFT hold tickets to any exhibiti… 2021-12-01 20:01:23 RT @dist_sys: We are looking for talks for our next meet-up! Do you work on graph databases? We would love to hear from you. RT please!… 2021-12-01 18:34:41 RT @schemeprincess: My group at MSR is recruiting! Come work with me, @danrkports, @rodrigo_fonseca, @jaylorch and @0xabU https://t.co/Sezk… 2021-12-01 17:34:27 RT @newspaperwallah: Thread: I live in the US on a work visa. I’m among thousands of Indians unable to see their families because US consul… 2021-12-01 16:55:03 RT @heathercmiller: Heya! I am recruiting a PhD student at CMU at the intersection of distributed systems and machine learning Applicat… 2021-12-01 15:50:49 RT @hillelogram: money 2021-11-30 23:48:54 RT @A_aphrodisia: This jellyfish found at a depth of 1225 m off the coast of California https://t.co/gzM9qDuOK4 2021-11-30 22:22:14 RT @bighpcproject: Our team from @UTAustin presented a new paper at SOSP 2021, which took place online between October 26 and 29. “WineFS:… 2021-11-30 18:07:34 RT @shashib: For people talking about CEOs of Indian heritage in American companies (Twitter's @paraga) don't forget to mention @IndraNooyi… 2021-11-30 17:35:26 RT @JamesLarus: If you submit to ASPLOS, please read this short blog post (also on @SIGARCH and @sigplan) and use the opportunity to commen… 2021-11-30 17:29:04 @GregBodwin Thank you for the explanation! 2021-11-30 17:07:28 The one extra thing I'd want, which might be especially hard given the interdisciplinary nature of @ASPLOSConf, is good coordination with other conferences. @sigplan, @sigarch, and @ACMSIGOPS should work together to ensure deadlines are laid out nicely across areas. 2021-11-30 17:05:56 I feel like other communities like databases have already tried these models successfully. So to me, these ideas are not in the hypothesis stage, they have already been validated. 2021-11-30 16:59:11 @sigarch I strongly support both these proposals, and I'm impressed with the forward looking nature of the @ASPLOSConf steering committee in considering this (and having a public proposal). 2021-11-30 16:58:05 This is a great initiative! Check out my blog post @sigarch for why introducing one-shot revision is beneficial for the community: https://t.co/PWZJ6ueOjb Multiple deadlines will help authors submit work once its ready, rather than just to meet the annual deadline. https://t.co/4YN0Kx8kgd 2021-11-30 13:44:08 RT @ACMSIGOPS: All the #SOSP21 Q& https://t.co/ML51vIqv6o 2021-11-30 05:06:13 @GregBodwin Loved your thread! Is there an easy way to explain the intuition behind the new construction? Would greatly appreciate it! 2021-11-29 18:19:28 RT @usenix: Thank you to USENIX's members and donors, who support our mission and our commitment to open access: https://t.co/s4Pqd75YU3 Yo… 2021-11-29 18:15:32 RT @nikivazou: We are forming the PLDI'22 Artifact Evaluation Committee! Nominate yourself (https://t.co/dIKxdGqDwB) or someone else (http… 2021-11-29 14:45:08 RT @ilyaraz2: I hope one day we'll live in the world where it would be a bad taste for popular science outlets to glorify substance abuse. 2021-11-28 22:56:30 RT @GeorgeTakei: What kind of democracy lets those in power draw their own districts to ensure they stay in power? Asking for a nation on t… 2021-11-28 18:36:09 RT @MIT_CSAIL: "Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate. Your success in life will be determined largely b… 2021-11-27 21:41:26 @stub_AS Minus the captions, you can already print a "storybook" on google photos today! I like how it selects "highlight" pics to weave together a story. 2021-11-27 20:50:49 @stub_AS Following. I just use Google photos, and I'm reasonably happy with it 2021-11-27 20:28:25 RT @ShriramKMurthi: Hugh Lauer's 1972 PhD, Correctness in Operating Systems, is a classic (and spawned great work). Until now it was not on… 2021-11-27 19:03:59 RT @siobhcroo: Recent new assistant profs #academictwitter, what was the thing that you found the hardest transitioning from PhD student to… 2021-11-27 18:29:51 @thegautamkamath Ah, I see, so Findings are basically papers that would have been accepted if there was room for more papers in the main conf 2021-11-27 18:14:45 @thegautamkamath I'm curious, what is the difference between "Findings" and stuff like Spotlights or Oral? 2021-11-27 01:24:06 RT @frod_san: Many academics look annoyed with greedy scientific publishers without realising we academics are quite to blame for the situa… 2021-11-27 01:23:42 RT @frod_san: 6/ Given these evaluation criteria, most scientists will try to publish in the high impact-factor journals. And once journals… 2021-11-27 01:23:22 RT @frod_san: 4/ Every time we evaluate academics based on where they published, not what they published or what real impact it had, we are… 2021-11-27 01:22:43 RT @hakeemjefferson: I hope there’s a lesson in my willingness to call out those w/ power (e.g., MY or my employer): Never want anything so… 2021-11-25 02:18:42 RT @yayalexisgay: the unbelievable high of getting a “sorry, I’m running late!” text when you, yourself, are running late 2021-11-24 21:19:18 Two examples of journals which have been diamond open access for a long time: - Journal of Machine Learning Research (https://t.co/iECquIdHdi), running for over 20 years! - The Programming Journal (https://t.co/MEoQmz3u49) 2021-11-24 21:16:02 End this scam. At @jsysresearch, we have been running our own diamond open access journal. No page limits! As academics, we run our own confs routinely: running a journal is not that much harder, and you get a ton of benefits for the community. https://t.co/fQxcDftmTf 2021-11-24 18:14:54 RT @CACMmag: "What Every #Engineer and #ComputerScientist Should Know," by @RosalindPicard @MIT @MediaLab, says that #patents, publications… 2021-11-24 14:02:57 RT @dianamarculescu: Congratulations to @utexasece's Seth Bank, @AlexGDimakis, and Sriram Vishwanath for being selected as @IEEEorg Fellows… 2021-11-24 13:54:20 @AlexGDimakis Congratulations! 2021-11-24 12:05:02 RT @wicko3: I have two fully-funded #PhD studentships currently available in my research group at @imperialcollege, to work on programming… 2021-11-24 09:17:55 RT @badrishc: PhD students looking for a virtual internship this summer at the MSR Data Systems group, please apply at https://t.co/T19LeQh… 2021-11-24 09:17:13 RT @pramod_bhatotia: Some good news this morning: My application for Humboldt's Henriette Herz Scouting Programme was successful (@AvHSti… 2021-11-24 00:12:19 RT @rakamaric: Please DM me if you are interested in doing an internship with @AmazonScience: https://t.co/uJsHl08K0O We have lots of excit… 2021-11-23 22:00:00 RT @fereshte_khani: I’m hiring interns for summer 2022! 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Take care of… 2021-11-18 22:32:02 RT @AkshithaSriram1: @thetracysimone Creating a good support system. This is so key and is one of those invisible things that actually form… 2021-11-18 22:30:03 RT @0xabU: If you're a systems PhD student ∈{,}, please consider applying for a (virtual) summer internship in our group. 2021-11-18 18:15:12 RT @schemeprincess: Our internship application is up! Apply to work with me @danrkports @rodrigo_fonseca @0xabU @jaylorch and the other gre… 2021-11-18 18:14:41 When I was an undergrad at the College of Engineering Guindy in India, the freshmen (first year) CS lab was taught on Solaris computers that were extremely hard to use and archaic. I hope they have upgraded by now! https://t.co/LTWsSW8pDY 2021-11-18 01:06:53 It's only been five years since I was in grad school and already the compensation seems to make no sense to me 750k per year for staff/senior engineer??? https://t.co/LyKRctRY7e 2021-11-17 22:15:14 RT @ccanonne_: Nice, the virtual registration for #SODA2022 is still a gazillion dollars. https://t.co/83pmP3i0fK ($USD 650) 2021-11-17 19:22:33 RT @andrewwhite01: Happy International Students' Day They overcome many extra challenges to become scholars and scientists, and their succ… 2021-11-17 17:48:07 RT @usenix: Are you a USENIX member? 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The deadline is 17 December 2021. https://t.co/cHXeB… 2021-11-16 21:21:33 RT @mightdropout: https://t.co/c0PCuN1Ni8 2021-11-16 18:00:16 RT @maheshb: @uvdn7 @muratdemirbas told me that sometimes research happens on twitter 2021-11-16 01:27:58 RT @CharlieEbersole: I spent my time in grad school and post doc (2013-2021) heavily involved in the open science/methods reform space. I g… 2021-11-16 01:24:14 RT @MITGradUnion: Today's #MythBusterMonday discusses the rights of international students to organize. The truth is, there is no way that… 2021-11-16 00:20:04 RT @mboehme_: Regular reminder. If you decline any academic invitation, make sure to recommend at least three other names. Focus on early c… 2021-11-15 23:47:50 https://t.co/yPL05v6Dkv 2021-11-15 21:06:28 RT @acambridgediary: Today at the Beech Woods, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge, https://t.co/Kd5arHkHZa 2021-11-15 19:13:55 RT @jsysresearch: Pleased to present the 4th paper in the first issue of @jsysresearch! [Tool] Designing Replicable Networking Experiment… 2021-11-15 17:28:26 RT @ACMSIGOPS: We're running a short anonymous survey to get feedback about SOSP'21 to improve future SOSP conferences. Please participat… 2021-11-15 15:39:02 RT @HadasKressGazit: Writing a statement of purpose (SOP) for PhD admissions – please do not make me read another “as a kid, when I looked… 2021-11-15 15:35:37 RT @thegautamkamath: The University of Waterloo Algorithms and Complexity group is searching for postdocs in all areas of theoretical compu… 2021-11-15 01:18:42 RT @AcademiaAesthe1: 1,400-year-old Ginkgo tree, golden explosion of leaves. C/o Han Fei https://t.co/fM1nZeq3kg 2021-11-15 01:10:01 RT @brandontlocke: It blows my mind how much we have gone back to normal despite the fact that transmission is higher than it's been for al… 2021-11-14 22:28:14 RT @edwereddie: Large white yak in Tibet https://t.co/qxk9gCUbnq 2021-11-14 22:05:26 RT @hima_lakkaraju: I usually don't post about my personal life on Twitter. But, as I and my husband celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary… 2021-11-14 22:03:15 RT @JAldrichPL: This needs to be more widely known. I attended Caltech as a lower middle class kid...came out with only a few thousand dol… 2021-11-13 23:32:40 @danrkports @sibinmohan @schemeprincess @tianyin_xu I dunno what these things are, but the organizers insisted on adding that disclaimer, so there must be a path with unlucky events leading to no annual sosp :( 2021-11-13 23:28:02 @danrkports @sibinmohan @schemeprincess @tianyin_xu * assuming things go well 2021-11-13 20:02:07 RT @Dev14e: Twitter detox reminder: You can mute entire words, phrases and even accounts. You don't need to react to everything bad all the… 2021-11-13 19:12:25 RT @ShanthaRMohan: To those who were trailblazers: The first women graduates of CEG: P.K. Thressia, Leelamma George, and A. Lalitha Thank… 2021-11-13 15:15:50 RT @NeerajaJY: I’m looking for graduate students! Please apply if you are interested in research towards building a Smart Cloud, resolving… 2021-11-13 15:14:09 RT @amy_tabb: I had a paper that might fit for CVPR, but for reasons detailed in this short post decided to submit the work elsewhere. htt… 2021-11-13 00:26:38 @thegautamkamath @heathercmiller Curious about what this means. Do the universities get money separately from the government to keep the lights on and the labs maintained etc? 2021-11-13 00:24:32 @cfiesler Check out @jsysresearch ! 2021-11-13 00:17:43 RT @JocAPhotography: A male Red-bellied Woodpecker selects a peanut and is quickly followed by a Black-capped Chickadee who goes with two s… 2021-11-13 00:16:30 RT @usenix: The deadline for the OSDI '22 Call for Papers is coming up on December 7 2021-11-13 00:09:19 RT @ShriramKMurthi: From January 2022, every article in JFP will be available under Gold Open Access. Back issues will ALSO be free! @jer_g… 2021-11-12 23:00:34 RT @thegautamkamath: The University of Waterloo has two NSERC Tier 1 Canada Research Chair positions in Computer Science, with one targeted… 2021-11-11 22:56:20 RT @jeffrey_heer: So @joe_hellerstein and I are diving into the world of podcasting. We’ll be talking with guests spanning data engineering… 2021-11-11 21:59:35 RT @vkalavri: 4 days left! Submit an abstract to the @2022Sigmod Student Research Competition. Undergraduate submissions welcome, too 2021-11-11 15:47:20 RT @thegautamkamath: A bit of arXiv history. TIL it started out with Joanne Cohn (string theorist, then IAS, now Cal) personally emailing a… 2021-11-11 12:42:43 RT @ovahldy: Thanks to the Artifact Description/Evaluation Committee (AD/EC), @Tanu_Malik and I successfully lead the artifact evaluation e… 2021-11-11 12:40:36 RT @maheshb: I found a copy of Bob Taylor’s pithy rules for running Xerox PARC on @tforcworc’s website: timeless advice for anyone running… 2021-11-11 00:26:16 @palvaro Take care! 2021-11-11 00:25:19 RT @moyix: The submission history here is brutal Kudos to @gannimo and @HexHiveEPFL for persisting (and for getting the research out ther… 2021-11-10 23:56:08 RT @pvergadia: If you are a women (in Asia) pursuing a Computer Science degree or know someone who is pass it along. Applications for $1,00… 2021-11-10 23:42:39 RT @dgolano: UT Austin is hosting a great (free) virtual conference on Explainable & 2021-11-10 21:03:41 RT @TexasScience: Congrats to Hovav Shacham (@hovav) on a new @NSF grant to make web browsers more secure against hackers. https://t.co/J… 2021-11-10 21:01:18 @JAldrichPL This has always amused me about the US: the list of things which you think would be illegal (but is not), like folks in Congress trading stocks. One more to the list! 2021-11-10 14:08:15 RT @realhamed: CFP: @ACMSIGCOMM 2022: This year including the experience track in addition to the regular research track, Artifact Evaluati… 2021-11-10 01:12:10 RT @AustinISD: Students ages 5-11 can get their COVID-19 vaccine this Saturday at a districtwide vaccine clinic hosted by Austin ISD and Va… 2021-11-10 00:51:04 RT @nhannahjones: It’s actually simple: If you can feel pride in things you didn’t personally take part in, then you can feel shame in thin… 2021-11-10 00:14:21 RT @CosmonautAdrift: Every time I get a chance to talk to a young person about life and career and stuff, I tell them it's really, really o… 2021-11-09 23:34:13 Feel this on a regular basis, right from the first semester at Wisconsin! One of the few disadvantages of being a prof is being unable to travel when you are teaching in the fall semester. Pre-covid, used to make up by visiting family at winter and summer break whenever possible! https://t.co/vMJ1RCL7Py 2021-11-09 23:27:12 Same with think influencers and all these grifters whose chief skill these days seems to be able to talk or write mystically? 2021-11-09 23:25:49 Being a columnist seems like a weird thing. Presumably the person had some skill or had something that led to their unique viewpoint. But for a lot of columnists, their entire bio is just writing columns. Why should we listen to you? 2021-11-09 23:20:42 @danrkports @ACMSIGCOMM @jsysresearch Ah, didn't know that! I'm glad it's continuing the tradition! 2021-11-09 22:54:59 @realhamed @ACMSIGCOMM @jsysresearch I especially love all the innovation in the NLP conferences! 2021-11-09 22:54:29 @realhamed @ACMSIGCOMM @jsysresearch Oh I didn't know IMC had it, that's great! I know HotNets had some version of the idea. The ML conferences are way ahead of the game on some aspects! 2021-11-09 22:53:13 RT @realhamed: @vj_chidambaram @ACMSIGCOMM @jsysresearch Though SIGCOMM CCR has had them for decades , IMC also played with the idea at som… 2021-11-09 22:41:32 RT @c_cadar: We are excited to try this new publication model! Among other advantages, it can facilitate the dissemination of important re… 2021-11-09 18:18:23 WTF is this framing with the blame once again being put on the women? Really expected better from @CACMmag, not sure who approves tweets like these. https://t.co/ob89EanPYP 2021-11-09 18:10:13 RT @DRMacIver: I forget this isn't widely known, so here's a social tool. The "correct" way to ask someone if they know X when trying to de… 2021-11-09 17:11:38 RT @clairebcarroll: a good way to frame metric definitions: first: if I were omniscient, what is the real thing I want to measure? then: w… 2021-11-09 16:56:01 @PreetumNakkiran Of academic interest? 2021-11-09 16:16:37 RT @awsTO: At Wisconsin CS, we're looking for a tenure-track faculty in algorithmic fairness/accountability/transparency/ethics https://t.… 2021-11-09 13:42:31 RT @EllerRyan: This is real life. https://t.co/HvbiqE5dbh 2021-11-09 13:37:35 RT @chrisalbon: Holy crap. Record a video or podcast. Descript transcribes into text. **Edit the text** to edit the video or podcast. Add… 2021-11-08 23:59:56 RT @emsque: Mid-November for academics everywhere: https://t.co/076bJtEXj1 2021-11-08 21:44:15 RT @BrownCSDept: A new @BrownCSDept program seeks to improve diversity in systems research through a year-long program of research experien… 2021-11-08 19:15:43 RT @merrierm: Application deadline is Nov 15 for the CRA grad cohort workshops - a wonderful networking and career development opportunity… 2021-11-08 13:57:59 RT @realhamed: I will be recruiting 2 PhD students @imperialcollege @ImperialDyson to collaborate on research in edge privacy/security as p… 2021-11-08 02:06:20 RT @mointweets: @Prashxnt_Nair Nice! Didn’t know that you were an Asimov fan too. One of my fav Asimov quote is “In a good cause there are… 2021-11-07 23:41:40 RT @o_saja: Tip for PhD students applying to research internships: absolutely list your publications in your CV -- there is no reason not t… 2021-11-07 20:30:43 RT @mpolkadot_: Just saw three undergrads in lockstep carrying a mattress on their heads like ants https://t.co/UCNa1OrCLb 2021-11-07 18:54:16 RT @hakeemjefferson: Recruiting Black faculty is hardly meaningful if the institution lacks the courage to stand vocally in support of them… 2021-11-07 02:09:12 RT @cristalopes: It hasn't been acceptable for a long time. That's partly why the PACM series was created -- to keep the engagement around… 2021-11-06 23:48:43 RT @steveklabnik: I... did not see this coming. https://t.co/phkPOwc7gF 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 19:50:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 18:59:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-10-14 18:29:26 RT @roopshasamanta: I still reminisce about the time I spent at IST-Austria and in Vienna during my postdoc. Cannot recommend this enough!… 2021-10-14 17:26:09 RT @naz_andalibi: I will be recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my research group .@umsi. I am particularly interested in applican… 2021-10-14 17:22:39 RT @micahlerner: I was reading the list of accepted papers for Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) and there are so many great… 2021-10-14 14:40:42 RT @thegautamkamath: Interested in Master's programs for CS theory research? Aviad Rubinstein (@AviadRubinstein) and Matt Weinberg have an… 2021-10-14 13:06:51 @pramod_bhatotia 2021-10-14 12:58:08 @pramod_bhatotia It's very hard to tell the difference though, which is why students train with an advisor who can do this for them :) 2021-10-14 12:56:50 @pramod_bhatotia Fully agree. But then that's my advisor given the talk :) I think getting lost reading is the most common pitfall I've seen students fall into. Feels like "useful" work, but it's not. 2021-10-14 11:32:48 @realhamed You are kidding right? I don't think students seeing this might get you are joking :) One thing to say "reading papers makes you a better researcher", quite another to tweet this (and aggressively defend it). 2021-10-14 01:44:21 RT @pamwis: Please encourage the awesome women in computing that you know to apply. Better yet, nominate them! #WomenInSTEM 2021-10-13 23:49:24 @AkshithaSriram1 @akankshajain @TweetAtAKK I don't disagree, but the *degree* to which you can speak up is substantially higher if you have job security. I would not agree that tenure does not play a part at all. 2021-10-13 22:39:42 @akankshajain @TweetAtAKK Also, I think if you want to work on long term stuff, you need something like tenure which provides a longer horizon than the next faculty evaluation. You need the freedom to work on projects and fail and not publish anything for a while. 2021-10-13 22:35:34 @akankshajain @TweetAtAKK Apart from all the stuff Arun mentioned, tenure also allows you to speak up when your employers policies are not great. If you could be fired immediately, people would not be able to stand up for such things. 2021-10-13 20:54:46 @georgemporter I thought it was different from what is proposed in Georgia though, in that firing a tenured faculty member still requires due process and can only be done for certain reasons. 2021-10-13 18:58:57 RT @arshia__: ok on the downside it’s tuesday but on the upside this is where i’m working from https://t.co/P24yReqfYf 2021-10-13 18:25:57 @swarat :( 2021-10-13 18:04:48 If they can make tenure meaningless in Georgia, I'm guessing it's only a matter of time before this happens in Texas and Florida. Hopefully I'm missing something and this can't actually be done in Texas.. 2021-10-13 18:01:47 RT @nonmodernist: after today's unanimous vote by @BORUSG, this has now happened. there is effectively no meaningful system of tenure at ge… 2021-10-13 18:01:10 RT @staceyabrams: Academic freedom guaranteed by tenure is more than a hiring gimmick. Georgia cannot compete for talent or produce innovat… 2021-10-13 16:34:11 RT @brynosaurus: "Immunizing Systems from Distant Failures by Limiting Lamport Exposure" – our paper that @cristinabasescu will present at… 2021-10-13 16:15:37 RT @_nickspoon: I'm looking for PhD students starting Autumn 2022 at @WarwickDCS. If you're interested in proof systems (of both classical… 2021-10-13 15:52:17 RT @zhendongsu: Very happy to share that @CSatETH at @ETH_en has a tenure-track assistant professorship opening in programming languages an… 2021-10-13 15:13:37 RT @TheOfficialACM: #ACMFellow Margo Seltzer (of @UBC ) was one of the recipients of the 2020 ACM Software Award for developing Berkeley DB… 2021-10-13 14:59:06 RT @anaklimovic: Congratulations to all the Rising Stars in EECS https://t.co/g2BiiHRHky This is a selective program supporting underrep… 2021-10-13 01:13:28 RT @ben_golub: It seems to me that the kind of work practices advocated by Terry Tao here alter the queueing regime to look more like a mul… 2021-10-13 01:06:32 RT @radamihalcea: Today PhD students and alums of our lab shared with undergrads in the lab tips on applying for a PhD program. Main takea… 2021-10-13 01:02:06 RT @rdzombak: too many people have been discouraged from persisting in stem fields because they aren’t sufficiently “technical.” when the t… 2021-10-13 00:59:55 RT @CSatETH: The ETH Student Summer Research Fellowship (ETH SSRF) 2022 offers (under)graduate students a unique opportunity to gain their… 2021-10-13 00:14:28 RT @deiandelmars: + the amazing @hovav @IsilDillig !! 2021-10-12 18:16:05 I hate this. @hulu does this to it's paying users too: ads unless we pay even more money. When did it become okay to show ads to paying customers? https://t.co/stBJ8Hu8Lu 2021-10-12 15:39:46 RT @thegautamkamath: Cynthia Rudin (@CynthiaRudin) wins the second AAAI Squirrel AI Award, worth 1 million dollars, for her work on interpr… 2021-10-12 15:08:34 Come be my colleague! Happy to chat with folks about what the dept/university is like, or what living in Austin/Texas is like. Let me know if you have questions! https://t.co/qn3bteqKUO 2021-10-12 14:22:39 I grew out of it by learning from other researchers on PCs. I think this happens naturally, but we could do better in being explicitly guiding new researchers. Its why I think @ICSEconf and @jsysresearch explicit guidelines for review are so helpful! 2021-10-12 14:20:45 New researchers are especially likely to fall into this trap (I did) because it seems like such a big part of your identity. You are one of the gatekeepers of Good Science. Surely every flaw (however small) must be identified and addressed? How can imperfect papers be published? 2021-10-12 14:18:00 This is so good! I think it's easy for reviewer 2 like behavior to emerge from good intentions: "I must make sure Science is done well", "doing this is okay since it advances Science". New reviewers need guidance not to fall into these behaviors! https://t.co/PL08bejWFv 2021-10-12 12:53:41 Send your papers to @jsysresearch! Similar to @ICSEconf we have explicit conditions for accept and reject -- reviewers are not able to reject a paper because it is simple. Plus the reviews are public -- for any paper, you can read the reviews and see the rationale behind decision https://t.co/JEb40V4RjY 2021-10-12 12:49:16 @vaastav05 @johnregehr @schemeprincess @sanidhya_k Oh yes! How could I forget that! Two of those papers were a collaboration with my group :) I'm pretty sure there are lots more I'm forgetting. 2021-10-12 02:01:17 @johnregehr @schemeprincess Ooh I don't know off the top of my head but I would say Nickolai Zeldovich, Frans Kaashoek and Junfeng Yang? It's a small group :) 2021-10-11 13:21:44 @tobycmurray I think it's great that it can mean different things to different people too. But I feel like a good implementation of this would be "I'm doing track X, I'll be evaluated on this and that". Right now it's everyone trying to be everything without a lot of clear guidelines. 2021-10-11 02:49:14 RT @gillianrhayes: Do we really need this many letters from outside people to know that our junior scholars are amazing? Do we really need… 2021-10-11 02:47:51 RT @gillianrhayes: here @UCIrvine we watermark teaching evaluations to note COVID for both faculty and TAs. Will people remember the pandem… 2021-10-11 00:30:33 RT @siobhcroo: The Diversity Workshop at SOSP'2021 program is up. The focus will be on interaction between students and other researchers.… 2021-10-10 17:06:34 Strongly agree with this, and this is why I encourage every researcher I know (especially junior folks) to maintain a professional Twitter handle. Helps immensely in getting your name and your work out. https://t.co/t57cuu3IVc 2021-10-10 13:27:13 RT @ToschEmma: Curious about graduate school? Given the awesome interest shown by recruiting faculty, we have much more space than last yea… 2021-10-10 02:57:32 RT @K_Sheldrick: I want to talk about some of the criticisms of our recent work on fraud in the ivermectin literature, especially the types… 2021-10-10 00:40:07 @sibinmohan @EuroSys_conf @danrkports @schemeprincess @johnregehr I know you are joking, but I actually feel uncomfortable when alcohol becomes a bigger and bigger part academic culture.. I love Eurosys and all involved folks and I'm certain of good intentions and where they are coming from, but I would rather we not center alcohol so much 2021-10-09 22:57:01 RT @ShanthaRMohan: A wonderful story about my fellow College of Engineering, Guindy alum Velchamy Sankarlingam who says his parents let him… 2021-10-09 22:47:16 RT @KUT: “In a last-ditch effort, our realtor was basically saying that people were bidding — maybe $200 to $300 over rent a month,” Elisa… 2021-10-09 19:10:28 @EarlenceF I mean, the authors have the same incentive right? It's not like they want to ramble for the sake of rambling. And papers can clearly be organized such that you get the "message" quickly and get the full picture with details slowly. 2021-10-09 15:56:31 Strongly disagree with the notion that somehow the smaller a paper is, the better it is. You can't infinitely compress a paper to make it "better". 2021-10-09 15:54:10 Authors are not fools: they understand that with increasing length there is a greater chance your reader won't complete your entire paper. They are incentivized to produce the best paper possible. We should let them make the decision as to how many pages their work requires. 2021-10-09 15:52:32 In the age of digital conference proceedings, there is no real reason not to allow authors to use as many pages as required (with shepherd approval if you like) in the camera ready version. At @jsysresearch, even submissions don't have page limits! https://t.co/4kqmKqZ6mW 2021-10-09 14:58:18 RT @sudeeppillai: 1/ Spent the last day and a half running benchmarks on the Inferentia (inf1) chips from @awscloud, and the results are … 2021-10-09 02:31:27 RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Mur… 2021-10-09 02:24:27 RT @yohaniddawela: In 1996, two academics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, launched a new programming language. 25 years late… 2021-10-08 23:32:27 RT @n1nj4: Regardless, the effort of actually writing huge proofs with our tools taught me far more than years of always developing the nex… 2021-10-08 22:15:10 @georgemporter @nhannahjones Ah, this is an interesting take by itself! More like the papers the side effects of training students to do research? But then all out reward structures are built around the side effects though.. 2021-10-08 22:14:10 @johnregehr It's also very good for mental health because a lot of things are out of your control, but how you mentor and nurture your students is mostly in your control. 2021-10-08 22:13:13 @DSmokter I don't disagree. But academia also rewards short term impact (people using your ideas in papers or products) in a way that seems inconsistent with the overall goal. 2021-10-08 22:10:47 @johnregehr I strongly agree. I'm not sure who said this first, but I heard "our products are our students" 2021-10-08 22:09:37 @georgemporter Indeed. And hence my question "what is the purpose of academia?" 2021-10-08 22:08:52 @georgemporter K-12 education is enormously useful for society! It produces an informed citizenry (language from a @nhannahjones tweet I'll find soon). But I was talking about academic research though. 2021-10-08 22:07:01 We often have conflicts in reviews and PC meetings because of these opposing views. And often communities don't have one set of values regarding something like this, so one paper may be appreciated for the same thing that is dinged for another paper. 2021-10-08 22:03:48 But to this group, if you show them something that is super useful and making the millions of people better, their question would be: "but what is technically challenging about this work?" 2021-10-08 22:02:44 There's another group of people for whom academia is about solving puzzles. There is an intrinsic value in that, and it is quite unconnected about whether anyone will ever these ideas. A lot of fundamental breakthroughs have resulted from such ideas. 2021-10-08 22:01:33 @georgemporter To society? For lay people outside of academia? 2021-10-08 22:01:10 There's definitely a group of people (including me) who think we should strive to make our work useful for society (even if not immediately useful). But there are good counter arguments for this as well (I'll get into that soon). 2021-10-08 21:58:18 I think there is a long discussion (that we have had before on Twitter) about what is the purpose of academia. Right now it's different things to different people, which results in a jumbled mix of incentives. For example: should academic work be useful? 2021-10-08 21:53:49 This quote is https://t.co/qWf7fIJk2I https://t.co/DBUscOKbjL 2021-10-08 21:52:34 So much this! "our demand for novelty ends up not creating utility". I think this is spot on, and true for a lot of CS academia, not just FM. https://t.co/Q248YKWDfs 2021-10-08 18:35:28 @tritlo Yeah I agree recorded videos have some advantages, such as doing fun videos or involving more people, etc. It is also more accessible. I think if your conf has a lot of online activity when ur recorded video plays, it can be fun. But I have not seen this in most acad confs. 2021-10-08 18:00:21 RT @eeide: Students: EuroSys 2022 is organizing a shadow program committee (PC). Serving on a shadow PC is an excellent opportunity to ga… 2021-10-08 17:58:06 RT @SoledadVillar5: My friend made a sexual harassment complaint against her phd advisor in 2019. Last week the university ruled against th… 2021-10-08 02:37:05 RT @AkshithaSriram1: I've had so many *wonderful* interactions with Sangeetha these past few weeks. If you want to work with an advisor who… 2021-10-08 02:32:30 @jeanqasaur I don't disagree, but I think there is a difference between the kind of talks we give and a students first conf talk. Also a talk where you record video beforehand is very different from a remote zoom talk.. 2021-10-08 02:22:23 RT @jelenawoehr: It has come to my attention that not everyone knows this so I am once again tweeting: 24hrs after a traumatic event, or a… 2021-10-08 01:31:11 RT @AlexGDimakis: We have faculty openings in AI/ML as well as wireless and circuits this year 2021-10-08 01:18:53 Remote talks take all the fun out of giving a talk, while keeping all the stress. I remember my first big conf talk: a remote first talk is so different. I have students who went through this, and I hope they get to give in person talks soon! https://t.co/hFDk83Rw3q 2021-10-08 01:12:44 RT @amee_tweets: Below is the protocol I follow for an effective research meeting (with advisor/collaborator/colleagues). 1. Set the conte… 2021-10-07 20:07:15 RT @byroncook: Automated reasoning internships can happy any time of the year. But be sure to apply soon before slots run out! https://t.c… 2021-10-07 18:56:51 RT @swarat: I increasingly believe that "formal methods", when it finally proves its worth, won't be that formal after all. (1) 2021-10-07 18:46:06 RT @dianamarculescu: #MLSys2022 deadline extended to Friday, October 15, 2021. Submit your best ideas at the intersection of machine learni… 2021-10-07 18:45:11 @dalbersszafir @unccs Congratulations! 2021-10-07 17:12:05 RT @dalbersszafir: Long Overdue Life Announcement: I'm excited to share that this fall, I joined the faculty in the Dept. of Computer Scien… 2021-10-07 02:39:54 RT @muratdemirbas: [new blog post] Linearizability https://t.co/XMYjf3BTbu 2021-10-07 00:54:15 This is so awesome! https://t.co/ketngz3GB9 2021-10-07 00:49:51 RT @thevarunmishra: Call for PhD Students - please RT! I'm starting a computational wellbeing lab @Northeastern. We work at the intersec… 2021-10-07 00:45:45 RT @miike: When an embarrassing bug causes a lot of harm, it's tempting to say "ah-ha, formal methods could have prevented this". I'm skept… 2021-10-07 00:34:23 RT @smdiehl: Lets finally talk about how NFTs are a giant scam. (1/) 2021-10-06 22:35:18 RT @emilymbender: Q for #NLProc folks in India / interested in Indian languages: I'm working with an MS student, @anjalidariamorg, who is… 2021-10-06 18:27:59 RT @nirajtolia: So, how many startup CEOs do you know that get covered by Sports Illustrated or played Division I football? Read more about… 2021-10-06 18:27:39 RT @EvanMPeck: I've been concerned for awhile that lowering the barrier to use powerful models will increase the likelihood of irresponsibl… 2021-10-06 18:03:05 RT @NeerajaJY: The @ACMSoCC 2021 Student Scholarships information is up at https://t.co/D9sOvA07jq! Students, do take a look and apply! Fe… 2021-10-06 13:46:17 RT @mark_riedl: Zuckerberg is so full of bullshit 2021-10-06 12:22:24 RT @CRAtweets: Nominations Open for 2021 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award https://t.co/Ux1QYL3NT8 2021-10-06 12:20:48 RT @histoftech: This. And, as more women enter a field the pay GOES DOWN. So if women “chose” the “right subjects” in high numbers those wo… 2021-10-06 11:57:00 RT @JoshuaGrubbsPhD: I have a great idea for a *totally fictional* show, like Squid Game, but it’s 852 highly educated but underpaid peopl… 2021-10-06 11:49:06 RT @DavidBindel: The Cornell CS pre-application program is now live! For students coming from marginalized backgrounds, apply to get help… 2021-10-06 01:10:40 RT @niloufar_s: "She proposed for regulators to modify Section 230 to make companies legally liable for their algorithms promoting harmful… 2021-10-05 22:50:36 RT @PLMinusContext: (credit: @danrkports) https://t.co/CF40nwynf8 2021-10-05 22:23:27 RT @EvanMPeck: - this error message will mitigate more human suffering than probably anything I've ever worked on 2021-10-05 14:58:09 RT @statesman: The Austin American-@statesman is now accepting applications for its internship program for the spring and summer semesters… 2021-10-05 13:25:39 RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manab… 2021-10-05 13:14:57 @GernotHeiser Its tough to get your friends and family on Signal, since they already use Whatsapp. Outages like these help with the transfer though! 2021-10-05 12:01:29 RT @sarah_edo: I don’t believe you have to have passion to be a programmer, and was a bit sick of hearing the argument. So I spent some ti… 2021-10-05 04:17:41 RT @ylongqi: Internship Alert We are hiring PhD research interns for summer 2022. If you are in CSS, ML/AI, NLP, Recsys, Responsible AI,… 2021-10-05 04:17:23 @0xabU Exactly what I was thinking when I read the report too :) 2021-10-05 03:45:12 RT @francesc: Facebook went full serverless 2021-10-05 03:44:26 RT @CRAtweets: Applications are open for the @CRA_WP Graduate Cohort Workshops! Applications accepted Oct 1 – Nov 15. Learn More & 2021-10-05 00:42:23 RT @alexhern: a bunch of friends have texted me asking for a basic explanation as to what the hell happened to knock off all of Facebook so: 2021-10-05 00:38:55 @vaastav05 Happy birthday! 2021-10-04 21:33:08 RT @Oatmeal: In short, I’ve been urging my followers to get updates directly from me via email, rather than being locked behind Facebook. S… 2021-10-04 21:03:00 Imagine if Facebook also owned Twitter and GMail! I'm pretty glad one company doesn't own it all, and really wish Facebook didn't own WhatsApp and Instagram. 2021-10-04 20:59:30 RT @MikeDoughney: @kevincollier Accidental suicide - killing off its own network with a faulty routing update, to the point admins can't pu… 2021-10-04 20:59:26 RT @kevincollier: Don't yet know exactly what's behind the DNS issue that's knocked Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp offline, but it's really ba… 2021-10-04 20:56:53 RT @ChelseaParlett: Once Again https://t.co/zPmcTYH200 2021-10-04 20:42:53 RT @acmeducation: In the latest #ACMByteCast, Rashmi Mohan hosts @Google Fellow @labarroso, the 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award recip… 2021-10-04 18:24:00 @DrSanchariDas It was actually easier than I thought! Give it a try! 2021-10-04 18:00:25 The more serious version of this is when influential tech bros are like 'i talked to 2 students and they both don't have hope for the future why is youth like this' and other nonsense https://t.co/EYqspzWjkd 2021-10-04 16:42:54 RT @madanMus: If you are a junior/senior undergraduate student with lots of passion for research, or know someone who is, please consider M… 2021-10-04 16:41:50 Astonishing how easy it was to move my friends group to Signal once Whatsapp was down. I hope Whatsapp goes down more frequently! 2021-10-04 15:21:28 RT @a_swearngin: My team at Apple is looking for Ph.D. research interns to apply ML to interface understanding and developer tools. If you… 2021-10-04 11:16:39 RT @jsysresearch: Hello friends Did you notice that Jsys' first issue is out? https://t.co/rtZv3klvlR We have three stellar paper… 2021-10-04 02:02:59 RT @copyconstruct: I’m awfully late, but better late than never, eh? The best of 2020 in tech [talks]. It’s easy to forget, given everyth… 2021-10-04 01:39:44 RT @tomgoldsteincs: All true, but also I’m glad CS rankings exists and has displaced USNews for a lot of things. It has many flaws but it a… 2021-10-04 00:59:21 RT @KUT: Students enrolled in any school in Travis County can get a free library card from Austin Public Library starting Friday, even if t… 2021-10-04 00:57:38 RT @drsrinathsridha: If you are an undergrad looking to do research, please consider applying for the exploreCSR program at @BrownCSDept. h… 2021-10-03 20:12:31 @wizardgupta Sure. But if you score X, you get admitted -- it's very transparent. Who knows why a person is or not admitted in the US "holistic" systems. 2021-10-03 20:11:20 @move_4_7 @zkproofs The proof that this is a good system is that lots of folks from rural India make it in IIT JEE and other such exams. I'm certain that if we went the sop route, all those students would suffer. 2021-10-03 20:10:34 @move_4_7 @zkproofs Agree that taking a major before deciding courses is crazy. But strongly disagree that sops is not more subjective than using scores. If you score X, you get admitted, doesn't get more transparent than that. 2021-10-03 15:58:22 RT @1scrummymummy: I love this kid. She’s got it absolutely figured out. Emma aged 8 https://t.co/h6L3yTtK57 2021-10-03 14:19:00 There is an entire industry around "crafting" SOPs and research statement and personal statements and the like, with unclear impact on admissions. I've seen American undergrads go crazy on "extracurricular" activities because they view it as essential for admission. 2021-10-03 14:15:50 Strongly disagree with this. The root of the problem is that they are far more qualified candidates in India than number of spots in univs. We should open more good univs. Indian admissions are objective. No SOP or personal statement etc. This is a good property to retain. https://t.co/YixfrbvhHN 2021-10-03 13:38:58 RT @riannchanel: for my umich women and feminine-presenting folks. don’t go to class. joke or not. police presence or not. stay in your dor… 2021-10-03 00:19:02 @muratdemirbas @jsysresearch If you are curious about the peer-review process that went into the paper, you can check the anonymized reviews at @openreviewnet: https://t.co/cvFYMlanbD 2021-10-02 23:28:16 Check out @muratdemirbas 's review on his blog about "Matchmaker Paxos: A Reconfigurable Consensus Protocol", one of the papers in @jsysresearch's first issue! Blog post: https://t.co/kEsZaVLFqC Paper: https://t.co/NDI33Q6CLj Artifact: https://t.co/XiycHaSAof 2021-10-02 15:28:01 @PjdPeter @mustach_io @aharrisatx @zistvan Yeah. I'm not saying csrankings is perfect, there are things I would like to see included too. But it beats the competition by a wide wide margin. 2021-10-02 14:34:38 @PjdPeter @zistvan I think international students are going to look at rankings irrespective of what we hope for (I did when I applied). A world where there are no rankings doesn't exist. Given that, I think csrankings is a good choice that is transparent. 2021-10-02 14:32:31 @mynkgoel Congratulations! Beautiful picture! 2021-10-02 13:21:17 RT @zistvan: I personally find csrankings great: it is clear what the ranking is based on and the maintainer of the ranking is not making m… 2021-10-01 21:00:28 @pramod_bhatotia @schemeprincess @danrkports @bariskasikci @siobhcroo I'll be there at the business meeting. I agree we need better cooperation! 2021-10-01 20:59:57 RT @schemeprincess: To everyone that signed the petition and enjoyed having OSDI and SOSP this year, PLEASE come to the SOSP business meeti… 2021-10-01 19:34:02 RT @adityaakella: It is my pleasure to announce this year's recipient of the @ACMSIGCOMM Rising Star Award: Laurent Vanbever, ETH Zurich. H… 2021-10-01 17:21:27 RT @grimalkina: @ashtroid22 Anyway thank you for allowing a ramble, imagine being able to tell all the really bookish girls who follow intr… 2021-10-01 12:26:10 @realhamed @CACMmag Yeah, very rose-tinted glasses view of things 2021-10-01 12:20:52 NFTs have found their way even into the @CACMmag! https://t.co/H7rnNFQ75v 2021-10-01 02:25:32 RT @jvitak: So I just tweeted about Senator Blumenthal (erroneously) suggesting Instagram can "stop" Finstas, which aren't a hard-wired fea… 2021-10-01 02:23:36 RT @nataliexdean: For managing stress (and aren’t we all?), one of the best tips I’ve received was to eliminate the word “should” from my v… 2021-09-30 22:54:12 RT @theannalytical: This might be a hot take but I feel like hackathons cater to CS/Eng students who don't have social lives. They're a hug… 2021-09-30 20:47:13 RT @eeide: The exciting @ACMSIGOPS #SOSP21 program includes the PLOS workshop on October 25. https://t.co/nZqk5FXZ3o Join the workshop!… 2021-09-30 15:52:28 RT @eeide: Submit your cutting-edge systems research papers to EuroSys '22! @EuroSys_conf ⏰ Abstract submissions due Friday, October 1… 2021-09-30 14:51:03 Undergraduate and graduate students interested in systems research, check out SOSP for free this year if you are an ACM or SIGOPS member! Cost of getting a SIGOPS membership: $5 https://t.co/NG5ScAB2BS 2021-09-30 13:50:14 RT @GeorgiaLadbury: One November morning 14 yrs ago,a man walking along Exhibition Road at rush hour in the direction of South Ken tube en… 2021-09-30 13:12:11 RT @KUT: Capital Metro's board voted to spend $255 million on 197 electric buses from two different companies, paving the way for the trans… 2021-09-30 12:55:51 RT @dr_alison_cs: Just another @UTCompSci student out there changing the world. Now do Mac Mail, please, @thustweetsdavid. 2021-09-30 12:52:24 @zistvan @dasyaITU @CS_TUDarmstadt All the best for the journey ahead! 2021-09-30 12:33:47 RT @ACMSIGOPS: Join us online at #SOSP21 this October. The exciting 4-day program (Oct 25-29) includes 18 technical sessions with 54 accep… 2021-09-30 11:38:33 RT @pramod_bhatotia: Thanks to the generous support from Microsoft Research, I'm looking for a Ph.D. student. If you are interested to do… 2021-09-30 01:30:30 @nirajtolia Hah! I think people doing it in the field know all sorts of stuff you never learn in academia! 2021-09-30 01:12:15 - Level 100: starting a company where the core product is based on it 2021-09-30 01:11:11 Levels of understanding something: - Level 1: Reading about it - Level 2: Trying it out yourself - Level 3: Teaching it to someone - Level 4: Writing a book about it 2021-09-29 18:11:25 RT @natefoster: @cs_cornell is hiring! We have multiple positions: • in all areas of CS, • at all ranks, and • at our Ithaca campus… 2021-09-29 00:48:44 RT @kwangsungjun: wow, a neurips paper rejected by me and the area chair received a spotlight accept from another group (two set of reviewe… 2021-09-28 22:26:27 RT @SaskiaBonjour: New line in my CV. It seems politically important to include it, for the same reasons I include maternity leave. It also… 2021-09-28 22:25:59 RT @AzaleaRaad: Also thrilled that our paper "Extending Intel-x86 Consistency and Persistency" (on formalising the semantics of Intel-x86 m… 2021-09-28 13:09:03 I think there will still be subjective disagreements ("is the contribution big enough?") but by providing examples of both big enough and not big enough contributions we can make it clearer. It will definitely be a big step up from today! 2021-09-28 11:56:36 This is great! I think all confs should have such lists, should publish them along with the CFP, send them to reviewers before reviewing start, and refer back to it during discussion ("our CFP explicitly says we won't reject due to this reason..") https://t.co/acsf2AsGKX 2021-09-28 01:53:14 RT @sangeetha_a_j: An Internet traffic statistic that many people are unaware of... Today, Latin America < 2021-09-28 00:22:36 RT @bhaskark_la: Absolutely true. We do this consistently only in the PhD, but it is a good idea for undergrads to try and join a lab and w… 2021-09-27 23:36:39 RT @tfjmp: The Systopia lab at UBC (https://t.co/t08xfCXCGK) is recruiting graduate students. Systopia is made up of 6 research-active facu… 2021-09-27 20:27:31 @ambuj123 @cfiesler It depends on the setup you have at your university I think, but I have not been able to pay students unless they are on campus. 2021-09-27 20:07:49 @cfiesler Definitely agree with everything you have said! One thing I've done which helps students from non-research backgrounds level the playing field is offering remote internships. This is how I found some of my PhD students! It is a lot of work, but when it works out, its great! 2021-09-27 20:06:43 RT @cfiesler: Also if you think that general PhD admissions advice would be useful for someone please pass this on. With the caveat that my… 2021-09-27 16:35:36 RT @eeide: Check out the list of papers accepted to the PLOS 2021 workshop: https://t.co/MY9mmRr9Ox Online workshop Oct 25! @ACMSIGOPS #… 2021-09-27 13:24:11 RT @MITGradUnion: We are proud to publicly announce the MIT Graduate Student Union! MIT grad student-workers are unionizing to create a hea… 2021-09-27 02:09:03 RT @GergelyOrosz: One of the perks of no longer working at big tech, and having no plans to go back: I can write *very* honestly about some… 2021-09-27 00:58:45 RT @ToschEmma: New website up at https://t.co/x2WmzCs2Bh and ready to take student applicants! Spread the word! It's our 2nd annual pandemi… 2021-09-25 23:16:37 RT @fchollet: I don't know who needs to hear this, but proofreading something twice with two different fonts and large/smaller font sizes h… 2021-09-24 22:24:04 RT @GoogleAI: Continuing our tradition of supporting outstanding graduate students in their pursuit of research in computer science and rel… 2021-09-24 17:37:24 RT @JuliaTheEvoDiva: Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of-- Flight attendant: The patient… 2021-09-24 17:02:33 @kevbob_loughlin Congratulations! 2021-09-24 15:28:04 RT @mpherlihy: keynote address at SRDS 21 https://t.co/GCDZUhNwZk 2021-09-24 13:18:43 RT @aimatta: This is my PhD student's paper with @vkalavri and two former advisees 2021-09-24 13:03:57 RT @cristiproist: @clim_dynamicist @hgsuuaw Can confirm the Title IX incompatibility is BS. @UAW4121 won third party arbitration for hara… 2021-09-24 12:57:11 RT @clim_dynamicist: (A Harvard Title IX officer asked a friend of mine if they really wanted to make a formal complaint, since it might ha… 2021-09-24 02:42:32 RT @AnaCabrera: NEW: People vaccinated against Covid-19 while pregnant pass protection to their newborns, researchers from NYU Grossman Sch… 2021-09-23 23:12:43 RT @srvmshr: This is how all proceedings should be ideally. Impressive organization, disclosure of metainfo 2021-09-23 22:42:33 RT @MShahrad: At @jsysresearch, each area has domain experts as reviewers, reviews are publicly available for full transparency, and review… 2021-09-23 22:37:43 RT @eeide: Hey—did you notice that the first issue of the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) @jsysresearch is now available? Diamond ope… 2021-09-23 22:27:50 RT @MSFTResearch: Open to everyone! The first-ever 2021 Microsoft Research Summit, Oct 19 - 21, with over 150 sessions across 16 tracks, pr… 2021-09-23 22:25:32 RT @emeryberger: Hey, CS faculty members - unhappy with the way your state/university have been dealing with COVID-19? Apply to @umasscs –… 2021-09-23 18:45:23 RT @eeide: Come be my colleague! The @UtahSoC is hiring— nine tenure-track/tenured faculty positions, ALL AREAS, all ranks lecturin… 2021-09-23 17:47:22 Check out @jsysresearch for an example of the Area Chair introducing the paper to the community! Reviewers are given credit, and we link to the public reviews. https://t.co/pFS36sHiwN https://t.co/G7Q94An96p 2021-09-23 17:45:39 Extremely thrilled to present the first issue of @jsysresearch! https://t.co/pFS36sHiwN Features: - Diamond open access - Reviews publicly available - Mandatory artifact evaluation - Foreword by Area Chair introducing paper to community - Reviewers named on paper and more! https://t.co/j7QhgjS81G 2021-09-23 04:49:06 RT @schemeprincess: CloudLab is really an amazing research resource, even though I have access to lots of hardware. The ability to create p… 2021-09-23 03:55:25 RT @sangeetha_a_j: The CS department at UC Irvine is hiring in two areas this year! Systems: https://t.co/McmXy2u9U1 AI/ML: https://t.co/5b… 2021-09-23 00:38:14 RT @awsTO: The Neural Network Verification book is done and on arXiv https://t.co/LglDdfy92w (only minor changes going forward) Thanks to… 2021-09-22 23:16:49 RT @apenwarr: The orange dot is a billionaire and the backtrace is their autobiography explaining how you can be successful just like them. 2021-09-22 22:41:42 Really glad @danrkports, @ivotron and Robert Ricci ran Artifact Evaluation at #SOSP21! We have now had consecutive artifact evaluations at SOSP 19, OSDI 20, OSDI 21, and SOSP 21! I hope it's now a firm tradition at systems conferences :) https://t.co/A5xRo1J9SS 2021-09-22 22:06:08 @vkalavri I find HotCRP way better too. At least they are not using Easychair! 2021-09-22 18:36:06 RT @lawrennd: "Inconsistency in Conference Peer Review: Revisiting the 2014 NeurIPS Experiment" We logged the publication/citation status… 2021-09-22 18:25:38 RT @NeerajaJY: Hi friends! I'm really happy to share this interview with @RiggerManuel (https://t.co/aJZs58CJpN) where I talk about my acad… 2021-09-22 18:23:37 @lorisdanto Take care! 2021-09-22 15:09:18 RT @AntarcticReport: Here it comes! Sunrise has started at the South Pole! After an absence of 6 mths the Sun is slowly returning at 90°Sou… 2021-09-22 14:26:34 @vaastav05 Haha this one I knew lol (am I doing it right) 2021-09-22 02:01:59 RT @JAldrichPL: @vj_chidambaram And happy 39th birthday to :-) as of two days ago, by the way! 2021-09-22 01:55:32 @eeide Hopefully the meaning of that has remained constant 2021-09-22 01:33:23 @nikitab @moyix @ccanonne_ Fully agreed that you are attacking the tails of the distribution with both the stick and the carrot. I don't really agree you need to change the middle to improve the culture, if the middle is already doing good. But I'm curious, how do you suggest attacking this problem? 2021-09-22 01:09:37 @AkshithaSriram1 Oh god what does mean now 2021-09-22 01:05:54 RT @jbtuason: was rereading the little prince last night and i forgot how good this part was at explaining NFTs https://t.co/FJ1cMky9Wb 2021-09-22 00:58:57 What https://t.co/33TpzLivsy 2021-09-21 20:57:29 RT @ShrNarayan: @vj_chidambaram I'll be on the academic job market! I work in the area of systems security (sandboxing), memory safety, sec… 2021-09-21 20:10:55 RT @AlexGDimakis: This -- for junior people (esp postdocs/students). 2021-09-21 15:16:48 @anoroozian @moyix @ccanonne_ Yes, fully agree. I think our reviewing pools are "small" because we keep tapping the same small subset of people. If we look beyond this subset, there are lots of viable reviewers. VLDB for example has an extremely large, diverse PC. 2021-09-21 12:48:20 RT @RiggerManuel: Neeraja's GAP interview is now online at https://t.co/yGHCJRTwGL. It is a very interesting and insightful interview in ge… 2021-09-21 05:09:30 @moyix @ccanonne_ I think service is part of the job for profs and researchers. They can't just keep declining forever :) But I also don't think people will decline a lot for this reason. I think it will become part of the culture and people won't even think twice about it. 2021-09-21 05:01:24 @gautamcgoel @ccanonne_ @AndreasZeller They are not! In systems, students are mostly part of only shadow PCs for training, and very rarely part of the regular PCs. I think students serving on PCs is a good thing, but the load has to be kept light, and the majority should not be students. 2021-09-21 04:59:51 @moyix @ccanonne_ I have never gotten one of these awards, but I have friends who appreciate them a lot :) I think if you go full cynical there is no hope in academia. 2021-09-21 04:58:19 @moyix @ccanonne_ The asymmetry has a good reason though: you are in the position of deciding on other people's work, for which they might have spent months or years of their life. You are expected to do a good job. With great power comes great responsibility :) 2021-09-21 04:49:41 @moyix @ccanonne_ I think the carrots are well-established by now: things like Distinguished Reviewer awards and recognizing good reviewing in general. Academia runs on reputation, so things that establish a positive reputation are good carrots. 2021-09-21 04:44:03 @ccanonne_ @gautamcgoel @AndreasZeller Yes, I was not suggesting this as a solution for the ML community! The problems in the original thread I was responding to are not limited to ML. The problem of review accountability is widespread. I was talking about my own community, systems. 2021-09-21 04:34:48 @gautamcgoel @ccanonne_ @AndreasZeller ML is a weird case where the demand is so much higher than the supply that even students are drafted to review. But I think in other communities this is not the case. 2021-09-21 04:28:12 @gautamcgoel @ccanonne_ Yes! Its from an article by @AndreasZeller :) I'm not making it up. On the contrary, I would love to review for a conference like this. I don't think I'm the only one. https://t.co/oUpqUKhPlJ 2021-09-21 03:31:39 RT @michioh: 3-year postdoc position for topics of intersection of net/os/storage is available. The latest starting date is 1 March. https… 2021-09-21 03:16:58 @ccanonne_ We can have both the carrot and the stick! And I'm not sure why people are so sure it wouldn't work when the SE community is a great practical example of it working. Is this a case of "we are very special and this won't work for us"? https://t.co/BZob752dd4 2021-09-21 03:08:08 @xexd Could you point me to where I "shifted" from bad to late? Or where I implied only late reviews are bad? I don't agree being late is not important. I agree it's not as bad as poor reviews, but its part of the culture. 2021-09-20 22:41:59 Awesome new series from @RiggerManuel on @ACMSIGOPS https://t.co/q7zvcobazd 2021-09-20 20:59:49 @happyandslow Welcome to @UTCompSci ! 2021-09-20 18:23:20 RT @Abebab: Hard to say which would be better but surely, one of the implications of ML research being dominated by big tech corporations i… 2021-09-20 17:58:17 @shortstein Well, we already do all the above things you mentioned. Is it working? Reviewers are professionals. They should be held to a professional standard. We do this for all professionals except reviewers who somehow need to be made to feel good. 2021-09-20 17:28:13 RT @usenix: Read it on 2021-09-20 16:43:23 @schemeprincess I have a slightly different strategy: I try to give lots of Accepts. Feels less odd, and accepts are rare too :) I pick papers to champion beforehand too! 2021-09-20 15:01:19 RT @SabiVM: Pfizer 5-11 data is out!!!!!! Robust response, no new safety concerns. Two doses, 21 days apart. Lower dose at 10-microgram (… 2021-09-20 15:00:06 RT @NeerajaJY: I'm D& 2021-09-20 02:56:01 @aryehazan Highly doubt that publicly revealing someone has been banned from reviewing at Neurips will not have an effect. Not reviewing is not the big deal, the public rebuke is. 2021-09-20 01:07:04 "You won't get any reviewers if they are bad outcomes for bad reviewing" == "Billionaires will flee if we increase tax" or "Employees will quit if we ask them to vax" Won't happen. 2021-09-20 01:05:30 If you ban someone from reviewing for 5 years, and make this public, I guarantee people are going to care. Even if they dont care about the reviewing, they will care about the negative tag associated with their name. 2021-09-20 01:04:44 "Reviewers are volunteers, therefore we can't do anything if they do a bad job". No. Being a reviewer has a lot of positive effects, not the least is being able to influence the community. People value this. We should expect more from reviewers. 2021-09-19 23:49:58 @thegautamkamath @gautamcgoel @gmravi2003 @shimon8282 @CsabaSzepesvari How did you arrive at the conclusion that 6 is fair? Is the assumption like 1 hour per paper, so 6 hours of student time? 2021-09-19 23:43:59 @boazbaraktcs @CsabaSzepesvari @thegautamkamath I don't agree. The practical example of the SE community seems to argue otherwise. I would much rather review for a community where there is accountability than for one where there is one. So it affects the willingness of people to be reviewers. 2021-09-19 22:05:20 RT @TheBorzoo: The 40th IEEE SRDS Conference will begin next Tuesday, September 21 virtually. Registration is free. Keynotes by @mpherlihy,… 2021-09-19 20:55:38 RT @tdietterich: Thoughts upon reading https://t.co/jKxdZsifgk: In this paper, the authors compare highly-cited papers from 2008-2009 with… 2021-09-19 19:20:36 @skandhurkat Ya ACM is not where I would look for leadership in such issues. The NLP folks honestly seem the most progressive in this regard. This is a good start: https://t.co/XbexZun8ev 2021-09-19 19:18:25 In PCs, the positive folks and the folks who speak up when papers are rejected for dubious reasons are worth their weight in gold. 2021-09-19 19:17:25 I think this is social more than anything else. In systems, it is rare to see strong accepts, and I can name all the reviewers who I've seen give strong accepts off the top of my head. When the entire group is scoring like this, if you give a strong accepts it feels odd. https://t.co/V9X2gFriQu 2021-09-19 18:11:05 @thegautamkamath Fully endorse this! People will game these metrics but it will be better than today's state of zero transparency. 2021-09-19 18:06:15 @thegautamkamath Ya I think we should have a process for it, that way it feels less like an attack and more like consequences that were known before hand. 2021-09-19 16:43:51 @AndreasZeller calls conferences where there is little process and accountability, where reviewers are shoddy and have no sense of responsibility "professional negligence". He's right. https://t.co/xT5Cv4DZ2p 2021-09-19 16:36:10 The world runs on incentives. If we build a world where people can do shoddy reviews and get away with it, they will. We can't keep depending on goodwill and good actors. 2021-09-19 16:35:14 In the SE world, apparently if you are ever late with a review, you are immediately excluded from reviewing for all top SE conferences. The consequence: SE reviewers are never late. 2021-09-19 16:34:15 So in 5+ years reviewing papers, I have *never* seen anyone held accountable for a bad review. Ever. There is all this mystical talk of how they will eventually get excluded from reviewing etc, but I've never seen this happen. There should be *visible* repercussions. https://t.co/CNdZmZIZAL 2021-09-18 21:40:14 RT @originalspin: So I’ve alluded to what’s been going on with my family and people have reached out with concern. I figured I should just… 2021-09-18 20:48:13 RT @ravenscimaven: I’ve always said this. All science degree programs that are currently graduating students with zero science communicatio… 2021-09-18 15:17:05 When you try to create a @FedEx account https://t.co/57RHHXtrcz 2021-09-18 15:12:18 RT @intrnetdaughter: what you blasting outta these? https://t.co/DdTKUBGXyW 2021-09-18 13:45:58 We have been working on this in the @UTSASLab over the past few years (Data Stalls at VLDB 21, CheckFreq FAST 21, MoNET ICLR 21, RainBlock ATC 21). Looking forward to more exciting work in this space! 2021-09-18 13:44:05 Our storage and memory bandwidths aren't growing that much, so inevitably the bottleneck is going to become data. How data is fetched, pre-processed, and checkpointed is going to determine overall utilization of many of these systems! 2021-09-18 13:42:06 I think this will become more and more common. Both compute and networking throughout have grown immensely in the last few years. For example, GPU computational power went up 32x in 5 years! 2021-09-18 13:40:40 Very cool work on making Fully Homomorphic Encryption practical! One of their findings: with the right architecture, it is the data movement that becomes the main bottleneck! We saw the same thing in our VLDB 21 work on analyzing data stalls for Deep Neural Networks! https://t.co/l9aX34LEds 2021-09-18 13:16:49 RT @Theophite: i keep checking in on the speed of FHE every few years and it's come down from like nine orders of magnitude to five, and no… 2021-09-18 12:53:55 RT @NeerajaJY: I'm D& 2021-09-18 02:02:40 @TaliaRinger I'm glad we are on the same page now! I think in the end our advice is not very different from each other! 2021-09-18 01:41:37 @TaliaRinger If you put a random theory paper in front of me, it's definitely going to take more than a few minutes to have something interesting to say about it. It takes time for ne to understand something, especially if it's not my area. 2021-09-18 01:39:24 @TaliaRinger If you are spending a few minutes per person, then I think it's okay. I was cautioning more against spending hours trying to read a paper (especially since it is a different area than yours). 2021-09-18 01:29:03 @TaliaRinger So I think you could go in armed with all this info about the paper, and I think that would work out great. But I also think you could make it a live process where you express interest in their work and sort of brainstorm together, and that could work too. 2021-09-18 01:28:00 @TaliaRinger I think the questions that you have about someone's work (which are very good questions!) would actually make for excellent conversation! And that's really all that most folks are trying to gauge in the interview: whether you would made a good colleague. 2021-09-18 01:26:28 @TaliaRinger To be clear, I didn't understand your tweets as reading the paper completely or faking it at all. Like I mentioned before, I have gotten this advice with good intentions before, and I do stand by my opinion that it is overkill. 2021-09-17 19:13:03 RT @danepps: To her grave, my grandmother always insisted she was just a government secretary during WWII but her children always suspected… 2021-09-17 18:01:13 RT @lindsey: @ArjunGuha @TheAviralGoel This is the workflow I recommended for ICFP authors: https://t.co/x0Ryn4G3gy 2021-09-17 17:26:25 Go Wisconsin :) https://t.co/FfjH21rGbu 2021-09-17 17:22:18 On a related note, my subjective and personal opinion is that as a faculty candidate, you don't need to do "follow up" where you send an email later in the day to everyone you talked to that day. It rarely makes a difference. 2021-09-17 17:20:35 @arvindsatya1 Yup, that's exactly how I felt too! 2021-09-17 17:20:26 RT @arvindsatya1: @vj_chidambaram +1. I got the advice to read papers too, and just couldn’t bring myself to do it — often times I’d receiv… 2021-09-17 17:20:07 Faculty job interviews are stressful enough without expecting candidates to also research their entire interview schedule. 2021-09-17 17:18:23 Sometimes you only get the interview schedule a couple of days before. My advice would not to be spend those two days reading up papers of those in your interview schedule. I think the time is better spent going over the talk, making tweaks if required, etc. 2021-09-17 17:17:03 Try to understand their work and it's challenges. If you genuinely try to understand and ask good questions, this by itself counts for a lot. 2021-09-17 17:16:12 When the interview was explains their own work to you (and definitely ask them about this), you should be able to make intelligent conversation. Sometimes there is a connection with the your research. Sometimes there isn't. 2021-09-17 17:14:18 But reading their papers IMO is overkill unless you are genuinely interested in that topic. And it's not even required! What interviewers are looking to assess: - would you be a good colleague - can you explain your work to someone who is not an expert 2021-09-17 17:12:49 Sometimes it can come across as fake when a candidate tries too hard to connect their research to mine (and I have undoubtedly tried too hard myself). My advice would be: definitely look up who your interviewer is and see what they have done recently. 2021-09-17 17:11:32 So I've gotten this advice, did it myself, see faculty candidates do this, and my overall opinion is that it is overkill. The essence is being able to hold a good conversation during your interview. Knowing your interviewer's work helps, but it's not the only way to do this. https://t.co/Izc4kRhUcL 2021-09-17 16:40:23 RT @DmitriiUstiugov: @vj_chidambaram Cheers! I am on the academic job market (https://t.co/o1ghC9C9pT) in the area of cloud and serverless… 2021-09-17 16:00:05 Very honest and vulnerable thread from Talia about her academic job search. You rarely see this honesty on Twitter - this is the real deal! https://t.co/yb5at749gu 2021-09-17 13:20:15 RT @ittaia: 1/5 Secure computation (MPC) is one of the seven wonders of modern cryptography! A fundamental theorem [1988 Ben-Or, Goldwasse… 2021-09-17 02:40:16 RT @geoffwozniak: Remember when you were the linker? https://t.co/zUqW6Vv1o6 2021-09-17 02:34:13 RT @mdekstrand: Y’all, Idaho is not ok. We have crisis-care standards in effect statewide. While that decision came out this morning, legis… 2021-09-17 01:33:52 @TweetAtAKK @ananthmani @Facebook Good so far, but who knows :) 2021-09-17 00:30:44 @TweetAtAKK @ananthmani @Facebook I put my photos on Google Photos and share album link via WhatsApp. Also, now it feels weird to share close family things with Facebook "friends" 2021-09-16 22:16:45 @roopshasamanta @NouraldinJaber @YuanYongwei @ChrisWagn3r Happy Birthday, Roopsha! :) 2021-09-16 20:08:56 RT @giuliaguidi: @vj_chidambaram Thank you —I am on the academic job market this year (https://t.co/yG1grHiQKD), working in distributed and… 2021-09-16 17:48:16 RT @lawrennd: Thank you Deepti and William for choosing to publish this proceedings with PMLR. I've pushed out over 130 proceedings, but… 2021-09-16 17:17:40 RT @mcmillen: ps I hear through the grapevine that Google is getting rid of physical Techstops, which is the most short-sighted "pleases no… 2021-09-16 16:37:22 As I have mentioned before, the problem of choosing a grad school is first and foremost the problem of avoiding jerk professors or managements. You really don't want to be in that position, because there is no good outcome for you once this happens. 2021-09-16 16:35:51 This is a second, unrelated case at @UF about an abusive prof and management (different from the prof who resigned after driving his student to suicide). International students, please be very careful in choosing where you do your PhD. Know that abusers often are successful. https://t.co/NMgbCguH26 2021-09-16 12:36:42 @ananthmani I think it's US only. They are discontinuing HotStar in the US and moving content over to other apps like Hulu and ESPN 2021-09-16 12:35:08 @TweetAtAKK @Facebook Whatsapp. I quit Facebook years ago and haven't missed it at all! 2021-09-16 03:34:53 RT @drewscanlon: Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider… 2021-09-15 21:02:16 @sangeetha_a_j Loving your work on this line of research, and really happy it has taken off for you! :) 2021-09-15 17:39:36 RT @algo_class: Teaching my @Columbia course "Foundations of Blockchains" this semester. Follow along as I haphazardly post lecture notes w… 2021-09-15 17:16:44 @adityagp @UCBerkeley @Silu__Huang @dorisjlee @me_dorx @smacke @tariquesdd @twattanawaroon @subZero_saj @liqixu2 @mangeshbendre congratulations! 2021-09-15 17:04:59 RT @indygupta: He grew up in a communal yard in Belgrade 1960s/70s. IEEE Fellow @dejanm 's humble beginnings, moonlighting while studying,… 2021-09-15 15:54:10 RT @thetrudz: Whew. https://t.co/E0ufAJJKAb 2021-09-15 15:47:13 RT @gregd_nlp: New work in #EMNLP2021 about deduction in natural language! Our first step in a direction I'm super excited about: how can w… 2021-09-15 14:44:49 RT @fadeladib: An exciting postdoc opening in Cambridge with Prof. Cecilia Mascolo, who gave a wonderful talk earlier this year at the MIT… 2021-09-15 12:47:42 Great impact for research out of my advisors group at @WisconsinCS! RocksDB uses ideas proposed in the Wisckey paper in @usenix FAST 16! https://t.co/lhrkB4cdHP 2021-09-15 11:30:10 RT @nataliabielova: Don't forget to submit your privacy protection paper to @CNIL @Inria award! Deadline: September 17! This year c… 2021-09-15 04:46:36 RT @lauritzthamsen: 1. I have some exciting news to share: I will be joining the University of Glasgow next year as a Lecturer in Computer… 2021-09-15 03:48:35 RT @brycecovert: The UK is giving everyone 14 at-home Covid tests for free, and they cost less than a dollar in Germany. But in the US the… 2021-09-15 02:08:12 RT @aaronyiding: ACM #HotNets '21 list of accepted papers online: https://t.co/g2dPBc8UJW @awm22 @minlanyu @lvanbever @tforcworc @HMarijn @… 2021-09-14 23:48:32 RT @DerkTheDaring: I once read a tweet which explained tar commands in the form of two mnemonics: Need to untar? -xzf — "extract ze files"… 2021-09-14 22:11:38 RT @AaronStriegel: @vj_chidambaram For those in systems, we are hiring one, possibly two faculty in the area of systems at the Assistant Pr… 2021-09-14 21:16:09 RT @AishwaryaGanlat: @vj_chidambaram Ram (@ramnatthan: https://t.co/ba9qlxubmc) and I (https://t.co/FbDQ98Fr68) will be on the academic job… 2021-09-14 17:41:52 RT @tfjmp: @vj_chidambaram Michael Han in Systems Security (https://t.co/sBf6GmCvQQ). 2021-09-14 16:36:05 RT @janadoppa: @vj_chidambaram https://t.co/NJJl6XHitf 2021-09-14 16:09:35 RT @barik: @vj_chidambaram It's more important to have "done something shipped." Later people will try to figure out if it was actually big… 2021-09-14 16:07:08 Who's planning to go on the academic job market for systems this year? Happy to boost tweets! 2021-09-14 16:04:20 @PurdueProfessor Academia wreaks less damage due to the fact it just talks about stuff and very rarely does stuff :) 2021-09-14 16:00:35 This tweet was triggered by Disney doing insane things with the HotStar streaming platform in the US. 2021-09-14 15:59:04 All the weird corporate things we see, such as Google's antics with messaging platforms, can be traced back to the fact that to get promoted, you need to show that you have "done something big". Nobody gets promoted for maintaining a good thing. 2021-09-13 17:34:14 RT @SebastienBubeck: I'm quite excited by this: a *Blog Posts track* at ICLR! Posts to be officially "published" by ICLR (& 2021-09-13 17:14:43 RT @ravenben: UChicago Rising Stars in Data Science workshop application is live! Great opportunity for PhDs and postdocs working on data s… 2021-09-13 14:54:56 RT @StrikeDebt: Good morning. College should be free. It should be $0. It shouldn't cost money. Education is a public good that yields inca… 2021-09-13 14:47:52 RT @mboehme_: Starting a new research group that explores the Foundations of #Software #Security at the Max Planck Institute for Security & 2021-09-13 03:59:40 RT @WordsOnIce: I'll never look at T-Rexs the same way. https://t.co/UjIKLYDBMm 2021-09-13 02:43:55 @skandhurkat @mynkgoel I've actually printed a lot of pics from my phone and it has come out really well! But I'm not printing giant posters or anything. I think for small size prints it works great 2021-09-13 01:11:39 Grateful for the improvements in camera hardware and software that allow most of my phone camera pics to be quicker and better (or as good at least) than my DSLR pics from 10 years ago! 2021-09-13 00:22:33 RT @bhaskark_la: Article showing that timed problem solving / coding interviews primarily test for performance anxiety. 2021-09-12 22:15:18 RT @dave_andersen: @vj_chidambaram @HariBalakrish20 I love our conferences, but I have come to really appreciate the merits of the VLDB sub… 2021-09-12 21:59:40 @palvaro Yup! Part of why I work on @jsysresearch ! 2021-09-12 21:58:30 RT @cesifoti: After advising PhD & 2021-09-12 18:13:18 @schemeprincess @JamesLarus Yes, I meant a revise and resubmit process with enough time in between submissions. 2021-09-12 17:37:02 @JamesLarus @schemeprincess Or hybrid journals like VLDB! 2021-09-12 17:25:53 RT @jasminecrowe: A year ago today, I nervously announced my pregnancy. At the time, one of my former male colleagues/friends said it was “… 2021-09-12 17:12:14 I was so glad when I saw @HariBalakrish20 bring this up in his keynote! Powerful voices reiterating this is important. I loved "33% accept rate means on average you submit thrice before getting accepted." So imagine what a 16% accept rate does to students. https://t.co/Zq4wP9gnas 2021-09-12 17:09:29 @realhamed @emilianoucl @roopshasamanta 2021-09-12 16:51:24 Our review process is random enough and complex enough that a reject at a top conference doesn't say much about the underlying idea itself. So make the judgement yourself! Stick with your good ideas (assuming you have enough time to do this) 2021-09-12 16:49:01 So in summary, if you believe in the idea, and you feel it is worth the big audience of a top conference, please continue to try to publish. Over the years, I've seen many papers get published in SOSP/OSDI which were first-round rejects the first time around. 2021-09-12 16:45:33 In general, the more well-accepted the problem is, and the more straightforward the solution is, the easier it is to get the paper accepted. This doesn't mean you shouldn't work on new problems with complex solutions. 2021-09-12 16:44:19 Sometimes the PC has trouble believing the paper is working on a "real" problem. I've seen this happen a lot, even when an industry person on the PC strongly says they deal with the problem on a regular basis. The academic folks are "simply not convinced". 2021-09-12 16:42:53 Sometimes papers are rejected because the authors have made the idea so obvious that PCs have trouble believing this is a big step forward. This doesn't mean the idea is bad! 2021-09-12 16:41:17 Some papers are rejected because they are at the intersection between two communities, and neither community feels the work is "rigorous enough" or "exciting enough" for them. But this doesn't mean the idea is bad! 2021-09-12 16:40:20 A paper might come across as the "obvious" thing to do, but it might be accepted because it is working in a new area, and the PC wants to encourage further submissions in this area. However, a similar "obvious" paper working on a more established subject would not be accepted. 2021-09-12 16:39:15 Answer: Because papers are not evaluated on a single axis. Papers are evaluated on multiple things, such as rigor, how "interesting" it is to the community, how general it is, etc. Some of these things are subjective, and depend upon the composition of the particular PC. 2021-09-12 16:36:53 So you might be thinking that there are "good" ideas which deserve publication at a top conference and "not as good" ideas that should be published at a lower conference. While this is true for some ideas, it is not true for a lot of them. Why? 2021-09-12 16:34:31 The idea that one or two rejects at a top conference means you should submit to a lower ranked conference is wrong. I know lots of folks who had their papers rejected many times at top conferences before being accepted. Why does this happen? A https://t.co/hmUxK8jiKu 2021-09-12 04:48:23 Yes! All the great teachers I know love teaching undergraduate students, and have a lot of empathy for how busy and crazy their life is. https://t.co/dNbo1uNa7M 2021-09-12 00:47:56 @jhasomesh @roopshasamanta I think everyone who became a prof is someone who had pretty good luck as a grad student :) (in addition to being technically good and hard working and all that) We are the lottery winners of the academic world :) 2021-09-12 00:03:55 RT @Goodable: Emma Raducanu will earn $2.5M for winning the US Open. It's the same amount the men's singles winner gets. Know why? Becau… 2021-09-11 23:59:57 @vkalavri @mboehme_ @roopshasamanta Just the first three :) the fourth is from @jsysresearch! I think some SE confs have recently introduced this as well 2021-09-11 23:44:59 RT @mdekstrand: as college headbrick season begins, it is good to remember: https://t.co/bX0do9cRod yes, i'm fine if this puts me in the c… 2021-09-11 23:39:12 RT @thegallowboob: leaving this behind for future tenants to find and freak out https://t.co/Uo5wfHQG0Q 2021-09-11 22:38:28 @tianyin_xu @0xabU @SaritaAdve Indeed. It's hard to convince a reviewer who has already made up their mind to reject :( 2021-09-11 22:36:37 RT @SahilBloom: Sports are a classroom. But contrary to what you’ve been told, the lessons extend well beyond the field of play. 15+ less… 2021-09-11 22:17:55 RT @tianyin_xu: Story. I had an opportunity to sit in a physical PC meeting of a major conference as a scribe. A paper was discussed. It… 2021-09-11 22:17:49 @tianyin_xu @0xabU @SaritaAdve The solution, of course, is to mend our process such that it needs no heroes :) Papers where the only "flaw" is that it is boring should automatically get in, acceptance should be the norm in such cases. The CFP and PC chairs should make this clear before reviewing starts. 2021-09-11 18:43:08 @roopshasamanta @mboehme_ Yup! When your paper can get rejected for reasons like "no one is excited about it", it's really got to do more with who is on the PC rather than your paper itself. Maybe the folks who would have liked your paper declined the PC invitation for some reason. 2021-09-11 18:15:18 @mboehme_ @roopshasamanta I don't disagree, but I think there is a difference between the first or second reject and the third or fourth reject. There is often not a lot of learning or growing on the third or fourth reject, just resubmission and using up the community resources 2021-09-11 17:47:31 @mboehme_ @roopshasamanta This is not exactly a secret, communities like DB have been doing this a long time: 1) one shot revisions 2) rolling deadlines 3) decouple # of accepted papers from how conf is conducted 4) have clearly defined acceptance and rejection criteria 2021-09-11 17:03:48 @roopshasamanta Yeah this is what I dislike about our dumb resubmit-a-gazillion-times-to-get-a-paper-accepted peer reviewing. Every reject has a cost and I'm pretty sure a lot of good talent leaves (and they are right to do so) because of the way we review and accept papers. 2021-09-10 23:50:35 I didn't like the new Matrix trailer :( Maybe my expectations were too high 2021-09-10 19:06:26 whoa https://t.co/hdgEM9W1G7 2021-09-10 18:58:10 A similar take is when you think the reader should know something at point X in your paper because you said it in earlier subsection A.B.C. If it is important, say it multiple times even in a paper! 2021-09-10 18:56:51 This is true, even though it is very counter-intuitive! I remember learning this early in grad school with my advisors when I said "but I already say this in slide 6" "If it is important, say it multiple times. People will only remember one or two things from your talk" https://t.co/WMBlJvjZJ1 2021-09-10 14:28:24 RT @KhoaVuUmn: Adviser editing PhD students' papers be like https://t.co/UfVHJ35lo0 2021-09-09 22:20:48 RT @IgorLetina: Unsolicited advice for PhD students, especially from non-top departments. Whenever you have a chance, talk to seminar spe… 2021-09-09 20:03:10 RT @mitchellh: Now that VMware Fusion for M1 is available as a private tech preview, I can share that I’ve been part of the private alpha a… 2021-09-09 13:51:23 RT @janadoppa: The School of EECS @WSUVoiland has openings for multiple faculty positions. 1) AI and ML 2) Computer systems and security 3… 2021-09-09 13:17:27 RT @vbhvsgr: It's the end of an era: https://t.co/Lww2WgIkRm 2021-09-09 12:34:00 RT @jsysresearch: We are delighted to welcome @RJacobPartner as Editor-in-Chief He will bring a most welcome support to @vj_chidambaram… 2021-09-09 12:33:44 RT @jayashree2912: The @UTSASLab family Successfully defended my PhD thesis today. Mixed feelings! Going to miss the enthusiasm and energ… 2021-09-09 03:40:22 RT @SriramRajamani: @stub_AS @vj_chidambaram @jayashree2912 @UTCompSci @IndiaMSR @DebopamBhattac5 Congratulations to Jayashree for defendin… 2021-09-08 22:38:25 RT @thegautamkamath: University of Waterloo has announced a university-wide cluster hiring initiative for Black and Indigenous faculty. If… 2021-09-08 22:32:47 RT @jayashree2912: Wohoo. Back after a long break on Twitter! You now know what I was upto The past 5 years have been a beautiful experie… 2021-09-08 20:08:04 Congratulations to Dr Jayashree Mohan @jayashree2912 on passing her thesis defense today :) The first student I independently advised at @UTCompSci :) Super proud of her work! Jayashree will be joining @IndiaMSR after her graduation. https://t.co/kryJYjNDVr 2021-09-08 17:31:54 RT @syardi: I would like to read reflections from mid-senior career academics in tech fields about how they look back on their careers. Wha… 2021-09-08 16:57:26 @AzaleaRaad @ICComputing @imperialcollege @UKRI_News congratulations! 2021-09-08 16:57:13 RT @AzaleaRaad: I'm delighted to announce that I've been awarded a £1.5m Future Leaders Fellowship from the UKRI! This amazing award will s… 2021-09-08 16:30:31 RT @PersianPoetics: In English, we unexpectedly 'fall' in love, but in Persian, love has stages: First the 'havā' (infatuation) of youth,… 2021-09-08 01:15:41 @regexmachina Based on what I've seen, I'd say it starts out at around 2x and climbs to over 10x and above in industry. 2021-09-07 21:03:50 RT @ehsan_hoque: In our latest paper in @Nature_NPJ Digital Medicine, we report the way we smile being a potential biomarker for Parkinson'… 2021-09-07 02:40:00 RT @FrancisYan_: We have a research internship opening for an RL-in-videoconferencing project I have been leading. Due to the special arran… 2021-09-06 18:11:24 @kaznatcheev The years don't matter as much what was accomplished during the PhD, though the two are of course correlated. When looking at new phds, hiring committees are trying to see if they would be successful, what their potential is. 2021-09-06 14:54:49 I think this is broader than just teaching. Public communication, and importantly, persuasion, needs this ability. And all great things require persuading or changing the mind of a lot of people. https://t.co/p6Eo6wK5Iu 2021-09-06 14:51:35 RT @krishashok: When I was in high school, my English teacher told us this fascinating story of India’s electrification drive in the 1960s.… 2021-09-06 07:31:02 @TweetAtAKK @UCSanDiego @ucsd_cse @UCSDJacobs @HDSIUCSD Congratulations! 2021-09-06 03:05:01 @risi_kondor Eh, I don't really think academia is all that much better in this regard. While you may not get fired immediately if you have tenure, there is definitely reprisal. Academia runs on closed door letters and evaluations. https://t.co/B1Jy83tM0s 2021-09-05 23:29:19 @risi_kondor If you are talking about being able to share your work widely and not bother with things like NDAs, definitely agree! 2021-09-05 21:56:47 RT @UnrollHelper: @tinu_1994 Halo! the unroll you asked for: Okay, another question via DM: how to decide between academia versus… https://… 2021-09-05 21:55:26 @HaggaiMaron This is definitely great when it works out! But it's typically easier to move from academia to industry than the other way around. 2021-09-05 18:54:49 RT @yukez: My Robot Learning class @UTCompSci is updated with the latest advances and trends, such as implicit representations, attention a… 2021-09-05 17:29:40 @moyix @0xabU @justinesherry Yeah, I think a single source file works from a technical viewpoint, but it helps me mentally to have different source files "containing" that section. Plus I can switch out intro5.tex for intro2.tex much more easily than version control! 2021-09-05 16:55:08 RT @nadyabliss: Great thread A few points: Especially when you are early in your career, pick the position that closes the fewest door… 2021-09-05 16:36:41 @sscdotopen @AmazonScience This is very interesting! I wonder if @MSFTResearch has something similar with UW 2021-09-05 16:35:44 RT @sscdotopen: @vj_chidambaram @AmazonScience in Berlin had a PostDoc program (inspired by MSR) which allowed me to work as an Applied Sci… 2021-09-05 15:01:58 RT @Arabbeau: Islamic architecture - Oman https://t.co/xSUmTTQUfu 2021-09-05 14:57:00 @justinesherry I have had collaborators prefer both a single source file and overleaf (while I update from the terminal). The horror! 2021-09-05 13:47:13 RT @Dev14e: India is having an absolute dream run at Paralympics 2020, ranked 24th with 5 #Gold medals! Congratulations to all the athlete… 2021-09-05 13:46:55 RT @dave_andersen: This is an important thread for any of our colleagues who use remote proctoring software. Proctorio is a terrible- and i… 2021-09-05 13:38:50 @zistvan Haha I see plenty of politics in academia :) I think the freedom is the same as a startup founder: you are your own boss, but that comes with responsibilities and work that an employee can avoid. So I don't know overall if it a lower stress lifestyle 2021-09-05 01:20:37 RT @ShomirWilson: Vijay makes some good points, but as a grad student, I wondered what faculty salaries are like. Here's how tenure-line ac… 2021-09-05 01:02:16 RT @nikitab: Great thread! Let me add a couple of my own points: 1. It is generally easier to switch from academia to industry than vice ve… 2021-09-05 00:45:50 @ovahldy Yes, I think if what a researcher wants is product impact, I think a industry lab is the best choice! It all depends on what the person wants out of the job 2021-09-05 00:42:08 @SunaynaRay Yes, definitely agree! 2021-09-05 00:41:15 @SamanthaZeitlin Agree on post docs not having job security! what I meant to emphasize regarding the money aspect is that there is a financial cost to consider before making the decision. 2021-09-05 00:17:34 So I'd say do the post-doc if you can find a great post-doc advisor and a good project/projects that you can hit the ground running. You should have a plan worked out as to what all you are going to do with your advisor. Good luck! 2021-09-05 00:16:13 But a post-doc can also harm your application -- post-docs are judged to a higher standard than fresh PhD grads. So you need to be productive during this time (it is a lot of pressure!) 2021-09-05 00:14:45 Finally, whether you should do a post-doc after your PhD. A post-doc allows you to potentially expand your expertise, work with new collaborators, and get more experience teaching/writing grants. 2021-09-05 00:08:51 So this relates to whether you have the freedom to do this or not. You won't starve in academia, but if you have financial obligations, people to support, large loans to pay off, etc, it is worth thinking about this. 2021-09-05 00:08:20 A friend of mine who recently moved to industry from academia was shocked by how much more they paid. Think about increments, bonuses, stock options, etc. 2021-09-05 00:07:37 Third, and the most obvious difference I guess, is money. If you opt for academia, you should be aware you are giving up a lot of money. Compared to your peers who went to industry, you will be making significantly lesser money, especially in later years. 2021-09-05 00:05:12 A sort of related concept is the freedom to work on a topic of your choosing. This is constrained both in academia and industry. In industry, you probably get promoted faster if your research contributes to the company's bottom line. In academia, you need to get funding. 2021-09-05 00:04:02 Working in industry is also great if you want to close the loop and ensure practical adoption of your ideas. You can work closely with product teams as you do the research, and help productize later. 2021-09-05 00:03:03 Working in industry helps if you are working on large-scale, resource-intensive stuff. For example, if you want to work on things related to datacenters as a whole, it is much better to do this in Google rather than in academia. 2021-09-05 00:02:22 Second, what you want to work on. As the recent events surrounding @timnitGebru have shown, it is hard to do some kinds of work in industry. If your work might be critical of industry, it helps to be in academia. 2021-09-04 23:59:21 First, students. This is the biggest difference, and the reason why I became a professor. If you enjoy mentoring students and seeing them grow, and if you enjoy teaching, academia is a good place to do this. You get interns in industry, but its not quite the same. 2021-09-04 23:57:59 Okay, another question via DM: how to decide between academia versus industry job versus post-doc? A There are a number of differences between academia and an industry job, but to me it boils down to three things: 1) Students 2) What you want to work on 3) Money 2021-09-04 23:50:33 RT @SusannaLHarris: Dear new grad students, There is always an urgent deadline. Always just one more sample. Always something that should h… 2021-09-04 21:43:51 RT @mattmight: I’m looking for software developers/user experience engineers interested in developing an engaging, usable interface to a su… 2021-09-04 17:18:41 @barik Yeah definitely agree. 2021-09-04 17:07:41 @PooyanJamshidi Yes but nobody was talking about that at all. That's not what DEI meant. She is gaslighting. 2021-09-04 17:07:07 Same. This is why I rarely submit to USENIX ATC which has a Jan deadline. https://t.co/MAYwpxL3dg 2021-09-04 14:01:36 @josecalderon Agree with @johnregehr that not everyone needs to know. For a humorous take, show them this: https://t.co/SxRfbmxT7s https://t.co/dN3ENk6BIv 2021-09-04 01:08:06 I got my official @EuroSys_conf gift for being part of the organizing committee! Thanks @pramod_bhatotia and the rest of the team! https://t.co/9ocqIWCKjW 2021-09-03 20:48:13 RT @lzcarl: New tenure-track position at UCI EECS focusing on new computer architectures like low-power devices and quantum computing! Irvi… 2021-09-03 19:53:17 RT @ShitUserStory: As a… – Netflix user I want… – searches to autocomplete so that… – I can easily find movies that are unavailable https:/… 2021-09-03 19:30:07 RT @alex_ander: I attended a diversity-focused town hall a few months ago where MANY students talked about how they were made to feel unsaf… 2021-09-03 19:05:29 RT @grimalkina: Jennifer. One of my classmates in a college philosophy class told me that when a queer person gets murdered it's less of a… 2021-09-03 19:05:12 RT @alex_ander: This is disingenuous hogwash. "Feeling safe" isn't a matter of being challenged by Homer. Students who are singled out by t… 2021-09-03 19:02:55 You cannot learn when you are afraid that your professor or your fellow students would bully or harass you for who you are. The first step in learning must be to setup an environment conducive to learning. 2021-09-03 19:00:59 Imagine being a professor and not being able to distinguish between "safe" as in "I don't want to be harassed or bullied" versus "safe" as in "I don't want to he intellectually challenged". People I know and respect follow this person :( https://t.co/IysZlsE5mu 2021-09-03 18:55:18 RT @vaastav05: @vj_chidambaram Research Masters in Canada is actually funded so its actually very economically feasible! Great way to get r… 2021-09-03 17:43:24 RT @marknca: containers on @awscloud: a rant problem: I want to run a single container every so often #cloud #devops 2021-09-03 17:01:46 Another possible route is to remotely work with professors and get research experience that way. This is how I found some of my students! Doing this successfully requires a lot of setup plus a lot of patience, but it can pretty rewarding to both parties when it works. 2021-09-03 17:00:52 I know there are plenty of students who don't have any research exposure during undergrad (this was the case for me). So one possible route is to do a Masters, and get research experience then. But this is an expensive route. 2021-09-03 16:59:49 But to figure out whether you like research, you have to *do* research. There is really no other way. Reading papers is different, learning stuff is different. There is an excitement from solving a problem and having it work that you can't quite communicate. 2021-09-03 16:58:25 To my pleasant surprise, I got an academic job at a city where I felt comfortable living and working! And thats how I ended up at @UTCompSci! 2021-09-03 16:57:17 Near the end of my PhD, I realized I loved working with student and teaching, so I thought I would apply for academic jobs. I wasn't actually expecting to get an academic job: I was working on very non-glamourous stuff, nothing hot like the Cloud or Big Data. 2021-09-03 16:55:33 So I stayed. Over the six months, I figured out that I had a lot more fun working on research than doing software development work. So I decided to stay and get the PhD, and then go get a researcher job in industry. 2021-09-03 16:54:20 @WisconsinCS Near the end of the masters degree, I got a software engineering job and was actually all set to leave academia and join industry. But Remzi and Andrea convinced me to stay for six more months, and if I didn't like research by then, that I would still be able to get the dev job 2021-09-03 16:53:07 So someone asked me in DMs how I figured out I liked research and to go for a PhD. When I joined @WisconsinCS, it was actually for a Masters degree, and I hadn't planned on doing a PhD at all. While doing the Masters, I got involved in research with Remzi and Andrea. 2021-09-02 21:44:16 RT @tim_kraska: My students @GeoffCodes and @markakis_m created this awesome collection/list of ML for Systems papers: https://t.co/BaHR… 2021-09-02 17:25:49 RT @TexasScience: Allen Bard — known around the world as “the father of modern electrochemistry” — is stepping down after a 63-year career… 2021-09-02 17:22:37 RT @jsradford: I pulled the trigger. I'm finally going to give my talk on how to turn your research into a venture (for profit, non-profit… 2021-09-02 17:06:08 RT @clifflampe: If you are an ACM member, please consider signing my letter to the SIG Governing Board about future business in Texas: htt… 2021-09-02 01:54:03 RT @AlecStapp: DARPA is good https://t.co/xsVm0cMm3T 2021-09-02 00:18:21 RT @AidanZHYang: This was incredibly useful when I applied to PhD programs, and even more useful for helping me choose one! 2021-09-01 19:36:39 @thegautamkamath @roydanroy @Interfolio Good point. Agree that most of the work is in writing one letter. 2021-09-01 19:00:18 @thegautamkamath @Interfolio Yes that's a good point. It would definitely make the workload burstier. On the other hand, it would also reduce the need for about 90 percent of letters. If we had a well defined period for when letters may be requested, would that help? 2021-09-01 18:42:23 For graduate admissions, we have an in house tool, but I'm not sure how we would shortlist students to ask for letters. I think going by undergrad university or grades would not be a good solution. 2021-09-01 18:40:21 I support this, and I was thinking about who you would have to convince to make this happen for faculty recruiting. The answer: @Interfolio. If they made this the default, and allowed people to change back to old behavior, most will just use this setting. https://t.co/iKXPBoLE17 2021-09-01 16:10:36 - @HariBalakrish20 's pioneering work was inspired and driven by applications https://t.co/LY0jJPPNzo 2021-09-01 16:06:41 This is a recurrent theme in the research of many amazing profs: - @emeryberger on "How to Have Real-World Impact: Five Easy Pieces": Scratch an Itch https://t.co/TASR6troQY 2021-09-01 16:01:45 I think there is a deeper point here: practical use cases drive a lot of innovation and research! To put it differently, if you are a researcher or student looking for ideas, trying to solve a concrete, real problem and generalizing the solution is a great way to do it. https://t.co/oL59nvFOQx 2021-09-01 14:58:27 RT @Taniel: there are layers of frightening in the Texas law, and the bounty structure it sets up is way up there https://t.co/62U8oqbDgF… 2021-09-01 13:10:54 RT @EliNSavit: While you slept, SCOTUS effectively overruled Roe—without formal argument on the issue. Some will be able to leave Texas to… 2021-09-01 00:00:04 RT @DMerigoux: This year, https://t.co/jj34OJ8izk has a brand new workshop: Programming Languages and the Law (ProLala)! Please submit exte… 2021-08-31 18:52:43 @johnregehr They are the same student :) 2021-08-31 16:56:50 RT @RJacobPartner: Was thrilled to give a half-day tutorial about TriScale last week @ACMSIGCOMM! TriScale is a methodology to foster rep… 2021-08-31 11:13:06 RT @alexmiddlewood: To the student in my Monday morning class who nods as I talk: Please know that you are the backbone of this class. You’… 2021-08-31 03:39:07 RT @atalwalkar: The call for papers for MLSys22 is now live (https://t.co/QB3nkFHQ0A). Paper deadline is October 8th. 2021-08-31 03:38:16 RT @cassidoo: If you're hiring entry-level developers (without professional coding exp), please respond to this thread with the job posting… 2021-08-31 02:44:07 @nikitab No, I don't think thats what happened in the OP's case. I'm arguing the larger point here. Anyway, let us discuss this in person! 2021-08-31 02:35:47 @nikitab But let us agree to disagree :) We shall hash this out when we meet in person in the (near?) future! 2021-08-31 02:32:12 @nikitab If a nitpick is forced by the reviewers onto the authors, under the threat of rejecting the paper, it is very clear abuse of power to me. https://t.co/ZwlFXc0pHA 2021-08-31 02:25:55 @nikitab I think we are both in agreement here: 1) Reviewers nitpicking things is bad 2) A paper's title should not be wrong or mislead, and reviewers are in the right to point that out 3) Multiple reviewers + revision/shepherding usually handles nitpicks 2021-08-31 02:05:33 @nikitab No disagreement there! But there is no objective standard on what makes a title informative. Hence the large range of subjective opinions. What I think of as an informative, catchy title might not be shared by the reviewer. 2021-08-31 02:03:08 @nikitab totally agree that revisions and shepherding help! 2021-08-31 01:56:58 @nikitab To me, a paper is a personal work of creation. And I and my co-authors get to name this creation. End of story. Unless we are saying something *wrong* or grossly misleading, I will continue to fight this. Heck with whatever the reviewer thinks would be a better title. 2021-08-31 01:54:56 @nikitab Unless you are a reviewer. In which case, you now have power over another person's work, and you are using it to change the title of their work.. It all just feels very bad to me. If a reviewer did this to my paper, I would feel outraged if I didn't agree with the reviewer. 2021-08-31 01:53:39 @nikitab Sure. But fundamentally, it is not *their* work. You might wish another paper had a better or clearer name, but unless you are a reviewer, you cannot force authors to change it. 2021-08-31 01:44:48 @nikitab Obviously, in all these cases, judgement is what matters, and clearly abuse is possible. Just saying "everything falls under the purview of the reviewer" is not helpful IMO 2021-08-31 01:43:42 @nikitab "Clarity and rigor of presentation" is an extremely broad and vague term into which everything within a paper falls. Should reviewers be able to use this to rewrite the paper the way *they* want? 2021-08-31 01:42:04 @nikitab Would you be okay with reviewers nitpicking and saying sentences should be written one way and not another? Some folks think long titles are bad, and others think short titles are not clear. Should the reviewers have the final say here? 2021-08-31 01:40:57 @nikitab Certainly a wrong title or a misleading title should be changed But within these constraints, trying to tell an author a title is not "ideal" is clear over-reach in my view. 2021-08-31 00:03:47 RT @arnabdotorg: It’s been tough to keep this a secret until now, finally we can talk about it! Ohio State Computer Science is hiring **20*… 2021-08-30 23:12:27 We give reviewers way too much power in our system. Because reviewers hold the ultimate yes/no power, and because there is no accountability, we do all sorts of terrible things to satisfy reviewers (think defensive writing). 2021-08-30 23:10:42 I'm always amused when reviewers abuse their position and get all nit-picky with things that are really not their concern. A paper is a work of art. The authors have a certain artistic vision for it. Reviewers should allow them to express it unless it is impeding the science. https://t.co/pliJcVPdd8 2021-08-30 23:01:50 Jesus. https://t.co/SDYD9W9c1Y 2021-08-30 03:18:55 RT @sangeetha_a_j: My SIGCOMM talk on the impact of solar superstorms on the Internet infrastructure is now online: https://t.co/L6Nl2Yygcs… 2021-08-30 02:38:24 Any of the school series by Wodehouse! More generally, anything Wodehouse wrote :) https://t.co/za9SYn6tG6 2021-08-30 02:36:44 @__gparmer Running into this same issue in my Virtualization class! 2021-08-30 01:02:00 RT @ProfJosiah: These are great! I would add: highlight diverse scientists when you open up a new topic: I like to talk about Hedy Lamar wh… 2021-08-27 22:52:56 RT @junfengjiao: We just received a $3M NRT grant from NSF, @UTaustin will lead the next generation ethical Roboticists research and educat… 2021-08-27 22:45:59 RT @cjdenial: There's an article in Inside Higher Ed today defending teaching with "rigor" and castigating what the author calls "the grace… 2021-08-27 22:43:14 RT @PeterStone_TX: What a touching event. Thanks @YesItsMeElad for organizing, @r_mirsky for posting, and so many current and former stude… 2021-08-27 18:02:46 RT @grimalkina: This stuff breaks my heart because it is so so pervasive and I'm so tired of us acting like it isn't. You try to work towar… 2021-08-27 17:50:35 RT @iangneal: Are you a student researching systems and you want to talk about your super cool research? Do you want to listen to other stu… 2021-08-27 16:10:11 RT @Dev14e: If you are a conference that has a Friday deadline which has been declared for months, and you change it to Monday on the day o… 2021-08-27 13:29:44 RT @ProfFeynman: If you want to master something, teach it. https://t.co/mr2DGuczjd 2021-08-27 00:20:09 RT @lilyhnewman: research presented at #SIGCOMM21 today by @sangeetha_a_j indicates that a severe solar storm could knock out undersea cabl… 2021-08-26 18:48:26 Publish in a journal and later present at a conference? Yes please! https://t.co/h12bPFHvLG 2021-08-26 16:54:10 RT @fadeladib: Highly recommend watching this wonderful SIGCOMM keynote by @HariBalakrish20 Take home message: his transformational work… 2021-08-26 14:31:17 RT @AdamMGrant: To fight Zoom fatigue, give people the freedom to turn their cameras off. New experiment: videos off reduces exhaustion an… 2021-08-25 23:58:43 @natefoster @icfp_conference @michaelfreedman @jrexnet @astory___ @PrincetonWalker Congratulations! 2021-08-25 18:35:30 RT @GregCasar: Today with @CWA6186, I’m asking @UTAustin to require masks and vaccines for safety. The City should require vaccines for ou… 2021-08-25 18:33:25 RT @7homaslin: .@QuantaMagazine is hiring! We're looking for physics, math, computer science reporter/writers and a visual designer/produce… 2021-08-25 18:32:37 RT @52_41_4d: Interested in programmable networks, cybersecurity, and rethinking network security in light of “in-network” computing? We in… 2021-08-25 18:32:23 @HilaCodes solo project :O I agree that we dont get into all the details when discussing design and implementation.. 2021-08-25 18:17:35 @HilaCodes Don't you discuss the design with your co authors though? Isn't that like a design review? 2021-08-25 13:12:05 @UTCompSci The students from industry (on average) have a lot more experience than me :) I'm pretty sure I'm going to learn a lot from them as well! 2021-08-25 13:10:30 My second course in the @UTCompSci Online Masters program, Virtualization, launches today. We have over 200 students in the class, and they are all super enthusiastic! Loving the diversity too: folks from India, New Zealand, fresh undergrads, grandparents.. 2021-08-25 01:51:57 RT @steve_vladeck: Dear UT Lawyers: That's not how the ADA works. 1. If I can make a "reasonable accommodation" for the visibly ill stude… 2021-08-25 01:02:12 RT @TweetAtAKK: Hey, @vldb2021 round table chats are now up too! Check out these 2 fun chats on DB/sys for ML stuff: Systems for ML: https… 2021-08-24 21:31:45 RT @DavidMohaisen: We've an Assistant Professor opening in security and privacy, with preference for policy and regulations 2021-08-24 17:44:03 RT @mmitchell_ai: Personal news! I'm joining Hugging Face . It's a community creating transparent AI models that are now powering both pri… 2021-08-24 16:06:48 RT @KevinMKruse: As we begin the school year, a reminder that your professors hold office hours for a reason, and that reason is you. Take… 2021-08-24 14:41:29 RT @eredmil1: Getting ready for the job market? Check out @NicolasPapernot & 2021-08-24 08:16:51 RT @ShriramKMurthi: It is with immense pleasure that @KathiFisler, Ben Lerner, @joepolitz, and I announce the first version of our new book… 2021-08-24 07:50:00 RT @KirbyKNielsen: Are you (like me) a junior researcher who sometimes worries about having a narrow enough research focus, or thinks that… 2021-08-24 03:29:49 RT @CNS_Advising: Hey CNS Students! To bring in the fall semester, why not win some swag? All current CNS students are eligible to win,… 2021-08-24 01:28:45 RT @GernotHeiser: At @UNSWCOMPUTING we are hiring assistant-professor level faculty in operating systems / distribute systems. I would love… 2021-08-23 23:43:07 RT @BlancheMinerva: First and foremost: please never use the phrase "foundational models" every again. It's a garbage name that people like… 2021-08-23 23:42:28 RT @BlancheMinerva: Okay, time to live tweet my thoughts on @stanfordnlp @StanfordAILab's "Workshop on Foundation Models." A long thread. 2021-08-23 22:09:10 RT @realhamed: Call for Applications for the Schlumberger Foundation 2022-2023 Faculty for the Future Fellowships to women from developing… 2021-08-23 20:06:35 UT Austin folks were involved in seven papers! We continue the tradition of having had a paper at every SOSP and OSDI since (at least) 2007 2021-08-23 20:04:07 I'm glad to see two papers on crash consistency, and more on storage (the bread and butter of my lab!) Crash Consistent Non-Volatile Memory Express Witcher: Systematic Crash Consistency Testing for Non-Volatile Memory Key-Value Stores 2021-08-23 20:03:13 There is an actual paper on an operating system, and a paper on virtual machines! The Aurora Single Level Store Operating System TwinVisor: Hardware-isolated Confidential Virtual Machines for ARM 2021-08-23 20:02:08 I'm thrilled to see a paper purely from India, led by a colleague from grad school at Wisconsin! iGUARD: In-GPU Advanced Race Detection by Aditya K Kamath (Indian Institute of Science) and Arkaprava Basu (Indian Institute of Science) 2021-08-23 20:00:53 Overall, I'm pretty happy with how diverse the author list is :) We have authors from China, Hong Kong, France, India, and Portugal, apart from North America! 2021-08-23 19:58:39 The SOSP 21 list of accepted papers is out! https://t.co/qVO8ZtoqPg 2021-08-23 16:33:01 RT @kph3k: UT-Austin is treating masking in the classroom like filling out course evaluations: We can't require it! But we can "incentivize… 2021-08-23 16:32:44 RT @SnehaAnnavarapu: My sole piece of advice to new graduate students is: find people who don’t take academia seriously. Find people to l… 2021-08-23 14:00:31 RT @martinkl: Consider submitting your work to the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good (DICG) — deadli… 2021-08-23 13:20:03 RT @zistvan: I am very excited to announce that, after a wonderful year at @dasyaITU, later this autumn I'll join @CS_TUDarmstadt as a Ful… 2021-08-22 20:57:49 I love this! - reviewing decoupled from publishing - you can submit every month, get reviews in a month - you can have anonymous preprints! The NLP community is very forward looking and able to take tough decisions without being shackled by tradition. Love it! https://t.co/QiZW3n22jz 2021-08-22 18:24:22 RT @cyberglot: maybe because we teach people how to solve those problems, but never when?? https://t.co/1gIFAP75hj 2021-08-21 21:12:32 RT @johnregehr: really lovely writeup by @trav_downs about why, unless you're careful, incrementing elements of a vector of int8_t can be q… 2021-08-21 19:51:09 @katypearce I think undergraduate students have a million things to do all at once and understandably miss some things. They often miss things in the syllabus because they are so busy/harried 2021-08-21 19:45:52 @utnslab Welcome! 2021-08-21 19:45:14 RT @adityaakella: My research group's new home. 2021-08-20 23:22:21 RT @kph3k: gave some advice to my first year PhD students today and am now repeating it here in case anyone else in transition finds it use… 2021-08-20 20:21:03 RT @PooyanJamshidi: We are hiring a #postdoc on #CausalAI for #Systems. Excellent opportunity for recent graduates who wants to go to the a… 2021-08-20 10:15:50 RT @zistvan: I presented our Software-defined Data Protection (SDP) vision at @vldb2021 yesterday. This joint work with @Ponnapalli95 and @… 2021-08-20 01:45:08 @AlexGDimakis Apparently it is not confirmed yet, see comments 2021-08-20 00:11:22 RT @ToschEmma: Are you a new-ish faculty member in a CS-ish discipline who is recruiting graduate students for the 2022-23 academic year? I… 2021-08-19 23:46:25 RT @ast_eth: Ana Klimovic @anaklimovic discusses her path to becoming an assistant professor @ETH_en in this next GAP interview with @Rigge… 2021-08-19 20:33:39 RT @PeterStone_TX: This article on using RL to learn pandemic response strategies was a productive collaboration between @SonyAI_global, @T… 2021-08-19 19:07:01 RT @uma_karma: This is a good thread from a smart person. I'll add that (with a few exceptions), academia requires taking on the risk of a… 2021-08-19 19:06:57 RT @Shoshana_Jarvis: Recently, I’ve been having conversations with folks about whether or not they should leave academia. Here are some rea… 2021-08-19 17:21:12 @tianyin_xu @HaiboChen Its great to see this! I hope India takes off like this too! Is there a link to Haibo's article? 2021-08-19 16:55:58 RT @fivefteditrix: "[M]any academics, even when they have tenure, lack power precisely because they are not part of active collectivities.… 2021-08-19 13:55:21 RT @natefoster: I'm honored to have been asked to serve a term as @icfp_conference's representative on the @sigplan research highlights com… 2021-08-19 13:13:39 RT @mnwsth: This is great! I am looking forward to reading the papers. I really, really hope this publication model works out 2021-08-19 12:54:36 RT @xLeitix: ICPE’19 has shown that (at least small) conferences *can* be done really cheaply, even with ACM breathing down your neck. We h… 2021-08-18 20:53:57 RT @heydari_be: Having the reviews and rebuttals attached to the accepted papers is so valuable. I wish we could have a system to have them… 2021-08-18 20:17:55 RT @nvancleve: I taught during the @BrownUniversity summer session and here is what I learned about colleges students "surviving" this pand… 2021-08-18 19:47:38 @TweetAtAKK @jsysresearch This was the very first deadline, I'm just glad we got papers at all :) I'm glad @joe_hellerstein took a chance on us! Over time, I do expect the group of authors to be fairly diverse. Right now, @jsysresearch needs to build up credibility. 2021-08-18 19:27:09 RT @eeide: @jsysresearch @joe_hellerstein @heidiann360 @faisalsyn I am honored to lead the @jsysresearch Artifact Evaluation Board. The mem… 2021-08-18 19:01:05 RT @danrkports: I am looking forward to finding out about this “Donut Paxos” because both donuts and Paxos are relevant to my interests. 2021-08-18 18:03:48 RT @DhruvBatraDB: Season 2 Episode 2 is out! Ray Mooney (@UTCompSci) on Humans of AI: Stories, Not Stats. Ray talks about how he finds… 2021-08-18 18:03:29 RT @mdekstrand: One random way hotels gouge: pricing food per person. It’s easy, but it builds in a lot of overage. Our event planner took… 2021-08-18 17:36:45 @nikitab @joe_hellerstein Sorry here is the right tweet: https://t.co/UAB33sdOwL 2021-08-18 17:25:22 @ldklinux @jsysresearch Yes, agreed! If we could work out a system with multiple revisions that doesn't have its negatives, we would definitely do it. 2021-08-18 17:16:48 RT @joe_hellerstein: If you liked Michael Whittaker's presentations on Compartmentalized Paxos, here he takes us one step deeper. 2021-08-18 17:14:03 @ldklinux @jsysresearch One-shot revision also bounds the amount of effort and time required from reviewers per paper. This was important for reviewer sanity and load. 2021-08-18 17:13:32 @ldklinux @jsysresearch It is a balance: journal-style infinite revisions suffers from taking too long and papers getting stuck in revision after revision. One-shot revision forces reviewers to focus on the big things, and get it done in a reasonable amount of time. 2021-08-18 17:07:57 I think it will also lead to better reviews if reviewers are aware that their anonymous reviews may later become public. 2021-08-18 17:07:17 Long term, I hope all conferences in systems will move to this model. It helps newcomers see how papers are written, what reviewers think, and see how papers get revised from their initial versions to the final camera-ready versions. Note that reviews are open but anonymous. https://t.co/4WM5SGZ4sY 2021-08-18 17:00:43 Extremely proud of the @jsysresearch team now that the first three papers have been accepted and the first issue is going to come out soon! This has long been a dream of mine, and it is exciting to see it become real :) https://t.co/0NH319OFvc 2021-08-18 15:02:29 @xLeitix That's a good point! Costs are always high if you host at a hotel I guess. 2021-08-18 14:58:02 @xLeitix In the systems community, we routinely have SOSP and HotOS at inaccessible, expensive resorts, so that definitely qualifies as "luxury" to me :) 2021-08-18 14:54:16 @__gparmer Completely agree! The high costs of conferences is part of the reason I helped start @jsysresearch :) 2021-08-18 14:50:50 So the conference-attending part of the community becomes more and more folks with big grants, who expect a certain level of comfort/luxury in their food and rooms, who will raise eyebrows if you want to do cheap confs. 2021-08-18 14:49:43 I think there is another factor: a lot of the academics attending reimburse the high costs from grants, so they don't really feel the cost. Of course, academics who can't do this don't attend at all. 2021-08-18 14:47:50 Interesting thread on why conference costs are so high. TLDR: - IEEE puts a 20% charge (assume ACM does similar) - Hotels make you pay for expensive food and rooms - Academics shouldn't be in the role of negotiating with hotels/doing any of this stuff https://t.co/EUJA5EJAf7 2021-08-18 02:31:51 RT @blockbustedpod: My library remodeled 2 years ago and it's one of the nicest places to study these days. They've got a cafe, a computer… 2021-08-18 02:10:04 RT @rebeccaisdope: Apparently hella people did not know these existed, myself included until last week. You can buy over the counter Covid… 2021-08-18 01:14:25 @moyix I wonder if startup packages become bigger whether tenure lines will become fewer 2021-08-18 01:13:17 @RandomlyWalking I like the format of questions answered by the work and short answers! 2021-08-18 00:47:05 If you are attending @vldb2021, come check out our paper on how the data pipeline affects training time for data-intensive deep neural networks! Lower training time without changing the model or the exec framework! Its on Thursday, Session 38! Paper: https://t.co/gGMLI7xXYe https://t.co/9tFgr0fOUR 2021-08-18 00:39:43 oh wow I didn't know VLDB is happening with an in-person component! First major conference I follow that has done this 2021-08-18 00:16:22 @TweetAtAKK @vldb2021 Seems like a fun round table! Was it recorded? 2021-08-17 23:40:12 This is why departments ask faculty candidates (and in some cases, grad students!) for diversity statements instead of telling them what they did to increase diversity instead 2021-08-17 23:39:07 Replace math with anything else, and this is still true. Increasing diversity and inclusion requires getting the jerks out, but since they hold all the power or are friends with those who do, we only get fluff diversity PR. https://t.co/6usybgODtn 2021-08-17 22:01:52 RT @scottniekum: Beyond infuriating that he gets antibody treatment for an asymptomatic case while leaving the rest of us high and dry with… 2021-08-16 21:00:48 RT @MaddieMierMD: Uh hey guys? Serious question.. do we think it’s ever going to get better? 2021-08-16 20:55:36 RT @JimMFelton: Can’t imagine how awful it must be to flee for your life from the only place you’ve ever called home only to be treated lik… 2021-08-16 16:10:45 RT @aboodman: Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all. The team came in at 9 and left at 5 (figuratively, people actually kept thei… 2021-08-16 16:08:21 RT @samirashackle: To give a small sense of the nightmare unfolding for Afghans: weeks ago, my friend in Kabul, a female TV journalist and… 2021-08-16 15:27:32 RT @barik: @johnregehr @vj_chidambaram @schemeprincess At NCSU you could get assigned a representative from "The Graduate School", which is… 2021-08-16 15:27:23 RT @barik: @johnregehr @vj_chidambaram @schemeprincess Yes, I used it myself. My representative was the Associate Dean of The Graduate Scho… 2021-08-16 15:23:54 @johnregehr @barik @schemeprincess Agreed. I think there are other external things that can be monitored: if a faculty member has a steady stream of students leaving (as happened in the Wisconsin suicide case), the university/dept should notice and take action. 2021-08-16 14:35:31 @schemeprincess Sure, but I think there is more awareness (at the very least) in industry that doing something like this is toxic. In academia, we get no training and no oversight, so it is not surprising this keeps happening. 2021-08-16 02:24:23 Overall, I feel like academia needs a lot more oversight in a lot of areas, but especially in how profs treat their students. It shouldn't take suicides for the university to notice and do something. 2021-08-16 02:22:31 I feel like the behavior in the IE tweets would now be frowned upon (or at least recognized as toxic) in many companies today. Not so in academia, especially because there is essentially zero oversight or regulation. "You can run your lab as you want" 2021-08-16 02:19:51 And similar to the IE guy, there is the very real survivorship bias/Stockholm syndrome. "I worked 24x7 and it was the best time of my life". I'm never sure what to say when people brag about this. I just make a mental note never to send my students there. 2021-08-16 02:18:11 And these are not unknown univs and labs. On the contrary, extremely well known labs. Award winning profs. 2021-08-16 02:17:00 I've heard first hand from folks about cultures at labs where students have to come in at 10 pm, and basically work around the clock. "you have to work like this if you want to survive at X university" 2021-08-16 02:15:19 Reading the terrible IE tweets, my main reaction was that industry seems to have gotten better in this aspect in 20 years. I'm not sure academia has. You can see all the behavior in those tweets at various univs and labs today. 2021-08-16 01:07:13 I am Vijay, God of course, bringer of the day. Fear me because I have a lot of work. https://t.co/MgjK5RDBU7 2021-08-15 23:31:38 RT @jesswade: found an old t-shirt and it’s just right for the moment https://t.co/1hH4DIim2m 2021-08-15 17:38:44 RT @thelma_madzima: Here is a radical idea: How about requiring senior faculty to express their commitments & 2021-08-15 17:35:30 RT @sibinmohan: CS/ECE/Engineering perspective: *do not* do a PhD without funding. Period. A PhD program shouldn’t accept students withou… 2021-08-15 17:20:37 RT @chimeracoder: hey Cortana show me "toxic work environment" https://t.co/G5o1oujW5z 2021-08-15 17:02:29 RT @satnam6502: But not their marriages, children, friends or community. I’ve also worked like this in academia and industry to the detrime… 2021-08-15 14:24:41 RT @Bushra_Ebadi: Looking for ways to support Afghanistan and Afghan people? Here's a list of actions that you can take and avoid. 2021-08-14 21:12:40 RT @MenryWY: Universities: We’re a world class research institution that pours money into STEM Us: Can you implement covid mitigation meas… 2021-08-14 20:26:41 RT @surlybassey: Toni Morrison on the freedom found in motherhood https://t.co/dAvIkn5ARK 2021-08-14 13:41:06 RT @SportsInsider: While some Olympians are pursuing prestigious careers and university degrees outside of sports because they want to, man… 2021-08-14 13:13:40 RT @Political_Nurd: My birthright home, Herat, has fallen to the hands of the Taliban. Please pray for my family & 2021-08-13 18:32:59 RT @TexasScience: Three of our faculty have recently earned distinguished @NSF #CAREERAwards! Congrats to @qixing_huang & 2021-08-13 16:59:04 RT @eredmil1: We (@radcummings @gkaptchuk) are hiring a Postdoc and/or Visiting Senior PhD Student to work with us on some exciting problem… 2021-08-13 16:41:43 I love the @QuantaMagazine. I think writing up the latest science in an accessible way is super hard and super valuable. The articles are always well-written and inspiring :) Thanks to the @SimonsFdn for funding it! 2021-08-13 16:35:38 RT @yixue_zhao: Just got this email (Friday) with a deadline on Sunday Yes, I understand very little effort is required here & 2021-08-13 14:20:31 @moyix Wow, I didn't know this. Why the 5x difference? 2021-08-12 20:31:11 RT @TaliaBuford: Are you a college junior or senior considering investigative journalism as a career? @ProPublica's Emerging Reporter's… 2021-08-12 20:18:51 RT @stephentyrone: @chrismardell Many years ago we made the log2( ) function more accurate on macOS. Turned out some software was using the… 2021-08-12 19:52:28 RT @CarlosdelRio7: “At this point you are either vaccinated or you are going to get infected with Delta” says ⁦@profshanecrotty⁩ ⁦@UCSFMedi… 2021-08-12 19:09:45 RT @awsTO: @vj_chidambaram Preview on Mac now does that btw File -> check the PDF/A box 2021-08-12 16:37:39 RT @martinkl: Great work by @jlongster: compile SQLite to WebAssembly, use IndexedDB for persistence, and you get a feature-rich and fast c… 2021-08-12 16:24:25 RT @blucia0a: @vj_chidambaram https://t.co/eBqCnAy3ik I've had this page up since the first time I had to figure this out, hoping that the… 2021-08-12 16:24:19 @blucia0a This is great! I also put it on Twitter for the same reason :) 2021-08-12 15:57:12 @maheshb Congratulations! 2021-08-12 15:46:22 @Sahil1V PDF/A is an archival PDF format. Profs funded by NSF have to upload their publications in PDF/A format while writing their annual report, which usually happens around now :) 2021-08-12 15:26:53 If you want to convert a PDF into PDF/A (for say, NSF), use this command. You need Ghostscript. gs -dPDFA -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sColorConversionStrategy=UseDeviceIndependentColor -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFACompatibilityPolicy=2 -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf 2021-08-12 12:25:57 RT @kprather88: Great solution for protecting kids going back to school...and you can even tell her is smiling! There are many sizes/types… 2021-08-12 12:19:31 RT @DrLeanaWen: Unvaccinated children will soon be starting school during what might be the most dangerous moment in the pandemic for them.… 2021-08-12 11:38:28 RT @MShahrad: Are you an international undergrad student from Australia, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico… 2021-08-12 02:16:53 RT @McGeeReports: NEW: @UTSA is shifting most classes online for at least the first 3 weeks of the semester, citing rising COVID cases. Th… 2021-08-12 01:05:56 RT @_beenkim: I know this happened a while ago, but better late then never. Thoughtful act like this one by @kchonyc keeps me hopeful for m… 2021-08-12 00:59:40 RT @chrisalbon: For those who need to hear it: It is totally okay to not reply to strangers. To emails. To tweets. To texts. To DMs. In p… 2021-08-11 23:22:42 @Dev14e Three easy pieces! :) 2021-08-11 17:30:19 RT @TheSamLi: It’s a beautiful day in Madison. https://t.co/rAdFc08Lk3 2021-08-11 17:25:11 @schemeprincess @danrkports Triple congratulations! 2021-08-11 14:45:34 RT @ovahldy: Need some help: Can we compile a list of conferences with artifact evaluation and if they award distinguished artifacts? So… 2021-08-11 14:19:06 @AkshithaSriram1 @RohanKadekodi @Ponnapalli95 @saurabhkadekodi @aasheeshkolli Courtesy @saurabhkadekodi :) 2021-08-11 12:53:18 @sarajmcallister Congratulations! 2021-08-10 22:44:27 @penndsl Congratulations! 2021-08-10 20:34:52 Looking forward to sharing the pre-print and the code with you all! 2021-08-10 20:34:17 We also built in NUMA awareness into WineFS so that it would work efficiently across NUMA sockets. WineFS is one of the first PM file systems to do this! 2021-08-10 20:33:37 WineFS builds on top of Intel's PMFS to obtain good performance for both system call and memory-mapped access. WineFS is able to preserve huge pages, and files are mapped with huge pages even when the file system is almost full. 2021-08-10 20:32:18 If you want good performance for both system calls and memory-mapped access, we find that journaling is the best fit. Journaling preserves the layout of data, making it easier to preserve huge pages. We believe this is the right trade-off, though journaling leads to more writes 2021-08-10 20:30:58 File-systems using log-structuring (such as NOVA or Strata) have very poor memory-mapped performance since they distribute the data all over the partition. Thus, not all file-system designs lead to good memory-mapped performance 2021-08-10 20:29:48 Memory-mapped access is much more efficient if the file is mapped using huge pages (lower # of page faults and TLB misses) However, memory-mapping a file using huge pages is increasingly difficult as the file system ages due to use: you need aligned, contiguous 2MB/1GB extents 2021-08-10 20:28:53 @RohanKadekodi @Ponnapalli95 @saurabhkadekodi @aasheeshkolli Many applications use memory-mapped files to access persistent memory, but a number of existing PM file systems are optimized for systems calls instead. 2021-08-10 20:25:54 Happy to share that our work on building WineFS, a persistent-memory file system that ages gracefully, was accepted to #SOSP21! This was work led by @RohanKadekodi, with @Ponnapalli95, @saurabhkadekodi, @aasheeshkolli, Harshad Shirwadkar, and Greg Ganger at CMU! 1/n 2021-08-10 17:21:06 RT @TheSavageInMan: @keenanisalive @justinesherry Ditto. I chaired hiring at UCSD for a bunch of years and have the same experience. No o… 2021-08-10 13:25:18 RT @steve_vladeck: The @UTAustin Faculty Council — of which I’m a member — has just adopted the below Resolution re: Fall 2021 #COVID Guide… 2021-08-09 19:45:40 Similarly, academia can be overwhelming and can easily take over your life. But it's important to build a fun, fulfilling life beyond academia. That way, you can take the ups and downs of academia much better! https://t.co/INpLC1uCqH 2021-08-09 03:08:51 RT @EvanMPeck: ‼ CS Faculty Job Market ‼ For a 3rd yr, I'm curating CS faculty ads that balance teaching & For me, they were… 2021-08-09 00:01:22 RT @TrungTPhan: At 40, Jim Simons left a famed math career to launch the most successful hedge fund ever: Renaissance Tech. Even though it… 2021-08-08 18:32:27 RT @AstroKatie: This all day. 99% of the time if I’ve blocked someone it’s because I was like “eh they seem unpleasant” and then I immedia… 2021-08-08 16:25:29 RT @car1ygoodman: One fucked up thing in academia is the idea that you cannot care where you live. I always cared (& 2021-08-08 11:28:53 RT @OldTamilPoetry: Naaladiyaar - 152. "Aim higher, even if there's a chance that you will fail" Blog : https://t.co/QTWQhRzA3a https://t… 2021-08-07 13:28:38 RT @Tokyo2020hi: Neeraj Chopra. Olympic Gold Medallist. That's it. That's the tweet. #Tokyo2020 | #UnitedByEmotion | #StrongerTogether… 2021-08-07 13:26:57 RT @technollama: Dank memes for academic teams. https://t.co/QQqiDHUMIR 2021-08-07 09:08:51 RT @rokwon: Grace Paley said politics is how we treat people & 2021-08-06 22:26:38 RT @EvanMPeck: Twitter has been critical to my career. I work at a small school in a rural area without a grad program. I don't have the lu… 2021-08-06 15:09:53 RT @LakotaMan1: 91% of the Navajo Nation is fully vaccinated. If the Navajo Nation were another country—it’d be the most vaccinated in the… 2021-08-06 14:23:35 RT @RandomlyWalking: Yahav: Fundamental "theorem" of program synthesis: Synthesis is useful if cost of specification + cost of consuming re… 2021-08-06 00:10:18 RT @thegautamkamath: A super cool summer school: 22nd Max Planck Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science. Featuring minicour… 2021-08-03 23:20:40 @danrkports Not to mention you don't really want to work with those kind of people anyway, regardless of whether they can publish or not 2021-08-03 22:48:57 RT @syardi: wow "Committees led by women can be expected to have 23% more female applicants, and those led by underrepresented-minority fac… 2021-08-03 15:22:38 RT @amee_tweets: If at any point in Ph.D. you feel wounded, worthless, low (negative?) confidence go for internship. Sometimes taking a bre… 2021-08-03 13:48:52 RT @JamieOQuinn1: As a grad students, we teach @UTAustin's classes and conduct award-winning research but are paid poverty wages. Now we're… 2021-08-03 13:39:54 Who are these reviewers? What is the action against them? Seems as egregious a violation as Li himself. https://t.co/ngs7VKoBZc https://t.co/f6mPpKxZHA 2021-08-03 02:53:14 @siobhcroo I made (and continue to make) both these mistakes :( I'm getting better at the saying no to PCs though. Its still hard with projects especially when the folks inviting you to collaborate are awesome! So I end up overcommitting. 2021-08-03 00:56:49 And this is not even counting the atmosphere and environment at research labs. At @MSFTResearch, there was so much energy at the Redmond and SVC labs. Everyone was super smart and working on cool things. It was a great motivator! 2021-08-03 00:55:31 @palvaro wow, I didnt know that! I thought you would have been a regular at MSR SVC 2021-08-03 00:54:59 The internships were crucial for me to relax and reset in a way before another year of grad school. I always came back refreshed and ready to tackle more research! 2021-08-03 00:53:36 An internship at Google is where I figured out that I like research more than software development, so it was an invaluable experience! 2021-08-03 00:52:34 I can't really imagine a case where an internship is a negative. Perhaps if the student's core research agenda is interrupted too often? But research agendas evolve over time, and usually incorporate things learnt during the internships, so I'm not sure. 2021-08-03 00:51:28 I interned three times during my PhD (four if you include Masters). I highly recommend doing internships to my graduate students: - Its a chance to learn something new, meet new folks, find friends from other schools - Its a chance to see a new city and travel https://t.co/5iSvXv2G8Q 2021-08-03 00:34:13 RT @mark_riedl: A year ago I warned that non-tenure-track faculty felt coerced to make teaching decisions that placed career over safety. N… 2021-08-01 22:28:46 RT @schemeprincess: @palvaro Barbara Liskov always said that she treated her PhD like a 9-5 job and thought that was part of her success. 2021-08-01 15:53:08 @AlexisRomWalker Congratulations :) 2021-08-01 13:18:24 RT @ClimateHuman: Did you know there are only 3 climate scientist with over 100K followers, and none with over 200K followers? If you value… 2021-07-31 19:41:56 RT @randal_olson: 150 people draw big company’s logos from memory. The top left one for @Starbucks gave me a chuckle. Source + more at: h… 2021-07-31 18:44:17 RT @MShahrad: I have a few funded spots available for Visiting International Research Students in my lab at UBC this year. Interested PhD… 2021-07-31 17:15:42 RT @UTCompSci: UT's Master of Data Science online program is excited to offer three new courses beginning Spring 2022: Advanced Predictive… 2021-07-31 14:19:47 RT @schemeprincess: Uhh, yeah so the awesome @heyelbs just went ahead and did all that work. So if you want a place to start reading on how… 2021-07-31 14:08:51 The press bears SO MUCH responsibility for misinforming people with clickbait titles for so many years now. These people have no shame or a feeling of responsibility. https://t.co/ZOe7LRDP6T 2021-07-31 00:20:19 @palvaro @rstutsman @tianyin_xu @jsysresearch Yes, this is a valid concern. For @jsysresearch the approach we are taking is you ping us ahead of the submission and we will see the fit and try to recruit reviewers if possible 2021-07-30 23:50:41 @palvaro @rstutsman @tianyin_xu It's what we are doing at @jsysresearch! Quick desk reject by area chairs within a few days after the submission. Why review something you don't have the expertise for? That will use up more pc time. 2021-07-30 23:38:57 @rstutsman @tianyin_xu Confs should stop accepting papers on every topic under the sun rather than the specific expertise of their PC members? 2021-07-30 20:40:26 @TweetAtAKK @Disney @Marvel @disneyplus @netflix @hulu @PrimeVideo Also, their app is slow and terrible compared to the other streaming companies 2021-07-30 20:39:25 RT @ShanthaRMohan: @tom_peters Coding is the lowest skill level in building software systems. The skills needed to do software systems righ… 2021-07-30 14:26:15 @tianyin_xu Yes, I agree. I'm proud of the quality of reviews in osdi and sosp, when it falls within the expertise of the PC. Papers on topics like graph systems get poor reviews even at sosp or osdi due to lack of expertise. 2021-07-30 02:36:30 RT @cblee_cblee: i have not responded to your email in my inbox and which you were probably awaiting a reply forgive me i am an overwhe… 2021-07-30 00:34:12 RT @UTCompSci: New AI institutes feature core UT Machine Learning Lab members David Pan (@dzp88) and Sanjay Shakkottai. https://t.co/LNZKbg… 2021-07-30 00:05:29 @harmankkaur Same with the British Bake Off! The judges are critical, but kind. 2021-07-29 21:16:37 RT @gannimo: Mentoring other researchers is one of the most fun aspects of my job. This is the response I got form a student close to gradu… 2021-07-29 20:41:10 @clegoues @AndreasZeller This is very interesting, because I think systems nominally shares the same goals such as expecting a rigorous evaluation. But the attitude towards limitations and how upfront you are about it seems to vary among reviewers. 2021-07-29 20:34:01 @xLeitix Thats a good point. If the load is small and the deadlines are generous, it makes it easier to be on time. But still, the presence of consequences for bad reviewer is amazing. I've not heard about this in any of the other communities I'm familiar with. 2021-07-29 20:28:48 @clegoues I'm glad its this way in SE! What do you think contributes to this culture? Just advisors passing this onto their students? Specific processes in the reviewing process? 2021-07-29 20:13:46 @HilaCodes I don't think its just conditional accepts + shepherding, since we have this at all systems confs without the positive effect that you see in PL. But I agree that conditional accepts, and revisions in general, make it easier to accept papers with flaws. 2021-07-29 20:09:36 Improving the quality of reviewing starts with there being consequences for bad reviews. Right now, in systems, there are ZERO consequences for short, un-constructive, late reviews. Systems get by because we have some good community members, but this is not a sustainable process 2021-07-29 20:07:55 Similarly, it would be great if there were real consequences to poor or late reviewing. It is a miracle to me that the SE community will terminate reviewers across all SE conferences for late reviews. Why can't we do this in systems? Are we afraid there will be no one left? 2021-07-29 20:06:07 In systems, with certain reviewers, you can be very upfront about your limitations, and they will appreciate you for it and consider your paper stronger. With other reviewers, they will use your own words to sink the paper. This makes the field less honest. 2021-07-29 20:03:21 - The constructiveness and positivity of PL folks. It is a rare thing indeed for a review to be detailed, identify all the flaws in your work, but these flaws not killing your work instantly. I've seen this sometimes in systems, but it is not widespread. 2021-07-29 20:01:33 - The process-driven approach of SE. Systems reviewing could benefit a bunch from detailed questions, more deadlines, guidance on how to review etc. We should adopt this from SE. 2/n 2021-07-29 20:00:42 This is a great read. I would love for the systems community to adopt three aspects: - the timeliness of SE! I was seriously shocked that you would be terminated as a reviewer (across all SE confs) if you were late. How I would love systems to have this! 1/n https://t.co/oUpqUKhPlJ 2021-07-29 18:28:06 RT @NSF: Today, we are announcing 11 new @NSF National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes. The institutes will focus on #AI-based… 2021-07-29 18:23:37 RT @UWiscResearch: University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers across campus will harness artificial intelligence to promote sustainable fo… 2021-07-29 18:12:01 RT @AndreasZeller: How do different fields review papers? In 2021, I served on the PCs of @PLDI (programming languages), @ICSEconf (softwar… 2021-07-28 22:03:44 @rstutsman Sosp? It's been a while since I saw a fourth round.. 2021-07-28 22:00:24 RT @terrinwatson: https://t.co/9HALHOnA7f 2021-07-28 18:20:38 RT @scottniekum: In my mid-20s before grad school, I had two bouts of debilitating depression and anxiety that therapy and medication helpe… 2021-07-28 18:08:16 @tosanjayr Yes, thank you for finding it! 2021-07-28 15:58:05 RT @satnam6502: I have been in work induced therapy. It does not matter if it is a PhD, academic position or job in industry. These high pr… 2021-07-28 15:28:30 There was a really nice article sometime ago where someone compared athletes receiving regular care and physical training with PhD students getting regular mental care. It's the thing to do if you want students to perform well! 2021-07-28 15:27:21 Back in India, mental health wasn't something that was discussed at all. Therapy wasn't considered a socially acceptable option ('what will the neighbors say?') Hope this changes! 2021-07-28 15:21:30 I've not been in therapy, but I had a whole bunch of anxiety and depression during my PhD (even though I was super lucky in terms of advisors and cohort/friends). Seriously thought multiple times about quitting. https://t.co/wKFideQHln 2021-07-28 14:27:37 RT @HotStorage: HotStorage'21 is live for day 2! Please join conversation via Zoom Webinar, Youtube, and Slack - https://t.co/XnUA4os7Hn 2021-07-28 13:17:15 RT @gauravsabnis: Reminder that the American government does NOT have a sports ministry or any real budget to actively promote sports. Thes… 2021-07-28 00:53:13 RT @clegoues: People without children are failing to fathom exactly how screwed childcare is right now. https://t.co/h4WFOW420H 2021-07-27 20:27:57 The enthusiasm from the community has been heart-warming so far. We have heard from so many people who feel this is the right direction. So many people have volunteered their time (in the middle of a pandemic) to help us run @jsysresearch. We couldn't ask for anything more 2021-07-27 20:26:18 Every systems conference that has taken off has needed 5--10 years to mature and gain acceptance as a first-rate venue. We anticipate a similar timeline for @jsysresearch as well. We are in it for the long haul :) 2021-07-27 20:25:04 The papers submitted to the March 1st deadline got Revise decisions by April 15 , and they have submitted revised versions by Jul 15. By Aug 15, we will have final decisions for these papers, and perhaps the very first @jsysresearch published papers! 2021-07-27 20:23:48 So what is the current status? You can check out all the papers submitted for our first deadline in March here: https://t.co/NCkUfuT6G1 Both the paper and the reviews are all available publicly, fostering transparency and discussion. 2021-07-27 20:22:21 The sort of clean slate opportunity we have is not very common. Thus, we aim to fix a number of problems in one go: - Diamond open-access! - One-shot revision for papers - No artificial limit on number of papers accepted - Mandatory artifact evaluation - Open (anonymous) reviews 2021-07-27 20:20:21 This inspired @RJacobPartner, @PooyanJamshidi, @NeerajaJY, @ivotron and I to start a new diamond open-access journal for systems research, with support from @eScholarship. https://t.co/x3tLr3sgw1 2021-07-27 20:19:01 I'm sure all of us must have felt frustration at these points at one point or another. What can we do better? The Journal of Machine Learning Research (https://t.co/2dfPeKJFN1) is a diamond open-access journal that has been running for 20 years! Zero cost to readers or authors. 2021-07-27 20:17:25 - There is little reproducibility of results. Given the complexity of systems we are building, if code is not provided, it is impossible for someone else to compare against your results. What is the point of publishing "papers" like these? Artifact evaluation must be mandatory. 2021-07-27 20:16:05 - The publication process is extremely random. There are no objective reviewer standards for many systems conferences, and your chances of acceptance do not necessarily monotonically go up as you fix reviewer concerns. This is pretty disheartening if you are a student. 2021-07-27 20:14:23 Paying $1000 to publish a single article is simply infeasible for a majority of the scientific world. - The number of papers published at a conference is artificially limited by things like single track, how many days the conference can go on for, etc. 2021-07-27 20:12:28 @jsysresearch There are a number of things about publishing systems research currently that is far from optimal: - You need to pay $$$ to publish at a conference (reg fees, travel) or to publish an open-access article in a journal. This could be as high as thousands of dollars! 2021-07-27 20:10:43 A thread about @jsysresearch (the new diamond open-access journal for computer science systems research), our aims, what we have done so far, and where we hope to go soon in the future! 1/n https://t.co/I4iaLgTnGd 2021-07-27 19:42:50 RT @mark_riedl: I admire Simone Biles for recognizing the importance of mental health and recognizing that it needs to take priority over o… 2021-07-27 18:55:47 RT @philipshilane: Congratulations to the @HotStorage Best Presentation "DNA Archival Storage, a Bottom Up Approach" Omer S. Sella, Amir Ap… 2021-07-27 18:55:31 RT @HotStorage: Runners-up of Best Paper award: 1) SentiLog: Anomaly Detecting on Parallel File Systems via Log-based Sentiment Analysis Di… 2021-07-27 18:55:27 RT @HotStorage: Congratulations to the Best Paper authors: "How the Common Retention Acceleration Method of 3D NAND Flash Memory Goes Wrong… 2021-07-27 18:54:59 RT @HotStorage: HotStorage'21 is live! 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AWS S3 Automated Reasoning Group i… 2021-07-22 16:02:09 RT @JustinWalsh_: My biggest piece of advice to incoming grad students: the office staff of your department is as important to your PhD as… 2021-07-22 02:43:42 RT @palvaro: I forget where I found this but it's pretty relatable https://t.co/CTIgfbrj1Y 2021-07-21 22:39:45 RT @alex_ander: In our lab’s newest preprint (https://t.co/VHRWuzLb0q), we used transfer learning between 100 different language representa… 2021-07-21 19:13:52 @PjdPeter I think multi-track can work if you have the crowd for it. DB conferences are hugeee and I think multi-track works well there. But for a small crowd, multi-track is the worst. 2021-07-21 18:29:07 @leonardhussenot I fully empathize! It's pretty frustrating when you don't see the audience reaction to your work 2021-07-21 15:42:09 RT @RiggerManuel: Mind the GAP! The GAP Interviewing Series aims to bridge the gap of transitioning to a (computer science) faculty positio… 2021-07-21 15:14:05 My second conference, thankfully, was soo much better: FAST 2012. 500 people in the room, all listening attentively. Great questions at the end of the talk. That high was awesome. Helped convince me to stay in academia. 2021-07-21 15:12:30 My very first conference was like this (DSN in 2011). Total of 6 people in the room, 4 of whom were authors. I was thinking: I worked so hard and flew to Hong Kong for this?? Almost quit academia. https://t.co/tFmRNaMomJ 2021-07-21 14:53:28 This is part of why I'm strongly opposed to folks who want to give 24 hours or something short like that for rebuttals. Give folks the courtesy of time to process and respond to reviews! 2021-07-21 14:52:48 I've been a professor for 5 years now and I still get very anxious when looking at reviews. So if you are a grad student getting anxious on getting reviews, its totally okay! I don't read the reviews immediately after getting them -- I have to "prepare" for it mentally. 2021-07-20 20:56:33 RT @Samatha_Mathew: Dear PIs: You have no idea how much it means for students to see their names on your slides. Please spare few minutes… 2021-07-20 20:17:52 RT @schemeprincess: PSA: Do not write your SOSP rebuttal today. Take a day off. Absorb the reviews. Write a rant and throw it away. Then si… 2021-07-20 19:04:08 @siobhcroo I had a thread on this somewhere but can't seem to find it now unfortunately 2021-07-20 19:03:15 @siobhcroo They serve different purposes. The comparisons to your own baselines are micro-benchmarks, and answer the Q of why your system works the way it does, and present its strengths and weaknesses. The comp to state-of-the-art is more macro and presents how your work improves the field 2021-07-20 16:17:03 RT @heidiann360: Raft is famous for its understandability but can we make it even easier to understand? In this thought experiment, inspi… 2021-07-19 22:20:23 RT @Not_ThatKaren: I'm so exhausted of having to defend myself on the street. I was walking to the grocery store and a man started followin… 2021-07-19 14:47:15 @syardi I think math and physics do this as well. I like it because it puts the focus on the work itself rather than on where it was published. 2021-07-19 14:45:07 RT @syardi: I like how law culture seems to share working drafts of articles regularly before they are published. I suspect computing’s con… 2021-07-19 01:15:51 RT @schemeprincess: Have been spending a lot of time thinking about what it’s like being a woman in tech and sexism, and thought of this si… 2021-07-18 21:08:40 RT @hovav: What if we could remove image parsing libraries from our program’s attack surface without rewriting them? USENIX 2021-07-18 20:46:45 RT @niloufar_s: If you've experienced harm online participate in our research project with @xiao_sijia 2021-07-18 20:12:34 RT @tdietterich: We are recruiting new people to help moderate the cs.LG (machine learning) section of @arxiv. If you are interested, pleas… 2021-07-17 00:11:38 @TweetAtAKK I don't think it's an ordered list :) but we do have a lot of more systems-y DB work that could equally go to vldb or sigmod. I think it's just a matter of which community the authors want to become known in :) 2021-07-16 22:53:08 RT @reyammer: People say there is BS in both academia and industry. But in my short, likely very lucky experience: 1) academic BS = 100x in… 2021-07-16 22:52:36 RT @EarlenceF: @tianyin_xu @mustach_io I keep saying this. Until there are consequences for actions, nothing will improve. The hallmark of… 2021-07-16 21:00:15 @vaastav05 I'm glad @bagchi_saurabh is providing us such nice screenshots :) 2021-07-16 20:50:13 @palvaro At a keynote at the same conference no less :) 2021-07-16 20:22:16 It takes guts to say this https://t.co/hXT50Nw7jz 2021-07-16 14:33:52 RT @devvarma: So glad to be a part of @CarnegieMellon celebrating 50 years of Raj Reddy. Wonderful to receive a physical book from @SCSatC… 2021-07-15 22:12:30 Doing this required convincing a lot of people and many behind the scenes conversations. Hard work resulting in a lot of benefit to the community. Kudos! 2021-07-15 22:11:23 I can't understate how monumental this development was. This is a great contribution from @schemeprincess, @danrkports, and others to the systems community! This move greatly increased number of top systems papers published each year, and added an excellent venue. https://t.co/Fhr2G3n5LP 2021-07-15 20:41:14 RT @doctorow: Facebook acquired a company called Crowdtangle in 2016 2021-07-15 19:30:52 RT @grimalkina: Also generating ideas is a matter of *practice*. You don't practice by clutching a single idea and never setting it down. Y… 2021-07-15 16:59:08 @ToschEmma I think the classical reasons for choosing (or not choosing) an area still apply to ML: choose an area that you are excited about, where you are willing to put in the effort to do research! I don't think people should choose an area because it has low-hanging fruit. 2021-07-15 16:56:22 @ToschEmma I see where you are coming from, but I would disagree. When a student starts with me, I definitely don't have a 6 year project in mind for them already planned out. I doubt you can actually do a 6-year plan like this in any area, let alone something moving fast like ML 2021-07-15 15:58:25 @MarcusBotacin Yes, I agree. Interdisciplinary is different, and much harder to publish. The work I'm talking about wouldn't count as interdisciplinary, it is the same discipline, but able to be published in different communities. 2021-07-15 14:37:35 However, if you are publishing across different communities, odds are that no one knows you well across all of these communities. This becomes problematic for a bunch of things in academia (like letters), which really depends on you being "known" for some area of expertise. 2021-07-15 14:36:25 There are pros and cons to this. I think being able to present your work before a different set of reviewers who have different biases and pre-conceptions is good for authors. However, the con is that you lose community. Typically, you become known to a community over time. 2021-07-15 14:35:12 This is actually very interesting. My group's work on data systems can be published in either SYS or DB venues, and having this option is quite useful. Our work on SysML can actually be published in ARCH venues like ISCA or MICRO, though we haven't explored that yet. https://t.co/aBn1pV6nSb 2021-07-15 13:23:44 RT @afd_icl: A reminder that we (myself and @wicko3) have two 2-year postdoc positions available at Imperial to work on next-generation fuz… 2021-07-15 13:14:34 RT @AndreasZeller: What do reviewers look for in your paper? Read the review guidelines for the @ICSEconf 2022 technical track: the most c… 2021-07-14 20:13:27 @pramod_bhatotia @dgiantsidi Yes! Great talk and very cool work :) 2021-07-14 19:49:50 @THarris_Tim Yes, this would be great! 2021-07-14 19:31:13 RT @Ponnapalli95: Come check out the presentation of our work RainBlock at @usenix #ATC21. RainBlock takes a novel approach of reducing the… 2021-07-14 19:22:38 The format of two people having a conversation is a surprisingly cheap way (in terms of work for pictures, animations, etc) to make a presentation engaging! 2021-07-14 19:15:03 If you are attending @usenix ATC 21, come see @Ponnapalli95 present our paper on RainBlock, a new framework for public blockchains that minimizes I/O bottlenecks! Starting now! Paper: https://t.co/tmUyAXrB3p Code: https://t.co/qJWbshDxZC 2021-07-14 19:08:42 One of my pet peeves regarding virtual conferences is hiding the Zoom webinar link. There should only one or two webinar links (corresponding to how many tracks you have) that are valid all day, and they should be sent directly in the email you get a day before the conf. 2021-07-14 16:41:23 RT @mmitchell_ai: I don't think tech companies are testing coding in the right way...The main skill that I've seen to be important is the a… 2021-07-14 16:09:49 RT @kevinbparry: A collection of me turning into random objects. https://t.co/ValPdPNJIj 2021-07-14 15:38:47 Where @jayashree2912 and I describe how the data pipeline affects training for data-intensive ML models, and how our group and others have been tackling these challenges! https://t.co/si3YAB1P6m 2021-07-14 14:50:06 @NeerajaJY @qianl_cs @kozyraki Congratulations! 2021-07-14 14:43:59 RT @irinacalciu: Join us now for Radia Perlman's joint @usenix #atc21 and #osdi21 keynote talk "Distributed Trust: Is 'Blockchain' the answ… 2021-07-14 08:09:29 RT @RashmiKVinayak: OSDI/ATC 2021 preview sessions are a great resource for the community! Saurabh @saurabhkadekodi (my recently graduated… 2021-07-13 23:58:21 RT @RandomlyWalking: Edinburgh is a fantastic environment for working in ML and NLP, and a great place to live. Definitely recommend applyi… 2021-07-13 20:56:45 RT @UTCompSci: UT Alum and UTCS Prof. Dr. Chand John creates CS-based comics on technical concepts and topics of diversity and inclusion. H… 2021-07-13 20:55:55 RT @denizaltinbuken: For @usenix #OSDI21 and #ATC21 this year we put together 15-minute Preview Sessions that cover the topics in the confe… 2021-07-13 16:28:17 RT @danish037: Departments ask for research and teaching statements from faculty applicants—basically what research agenda they'll pursue a… 2021-07-13 15:23:34 @justinesherry for "tinyman"! 2021-07-13 14:19:20 @floemuc Yup, that's indeed the root cause! 2021-07-13 14:18:49 @dave_andersen @JAldrichPL I agree in general, but for Raft, I've read the original sosp 13 submission and the final atc paper and the differences are minor, nothing that should have changed an accept or reject decision. 2021-07-13 02:25:52 @DavidMohaisen 2021-07-13 02:17:28 Our current review processes are kind of like the Wild Wild West. We need a lot more structure and regulation. A paper gets so and so scores, no technical problem identified? Accepted. No more endless debate. How much time do we collectively spend on PCs? 2021-07-13 02:15:30 I've realized that, despite good intentions, things like "be positive" are not useful. A rule like "A paper that any one reviewer likes is accepted unless it is shown to be wrong" is much more useful. 2021-07-13 02:13:50 As I've maintained, the only thing PCs are good at is determining whether a submission is *correct* (given enough time for a good review). Everything else that PCs are used for today, like subjectively picking papers to accept, just leads to random results. Bad for science. https://t.co/H79Vqo8eG8 2021-07-13 02:11:32 RT @DavidMohaisen: Yes, the first and second major bullet points sound very familiar. I like the honesty, and I thought they are the securi… 2021-07-13 01:37:26 RT @DavidMohaisen: Catching up on some keynote from last week by john ousterhout -- the orange highlight is mine, and that is hilarious. ht… 2021-07-12 21:42:24 RT @schemeprincess: I'm very happy to announce new members of the Superhero Network! Daphne Yao (@yaogroup1), Elena Glassman (@roboticwrest… 2021-07-12 18:20:47 RT @dkaushik96: Excited to see this piece with @calebwatney be published today. The US immigration system, so necessary for the nation’s s… 2021-07-12 17:10:13 RT @Ponnapalli95: Super excited that in 2 days our work RainBlock will be presented at @usenix #atc21 Please register & 2021-07-12 16:08:35 RT @nikitab: My colleague has been waiting for over 2 years (!) for what should have been a routine visa renewal. Huge mistake being made b… 2021-07-12 00:19:41 RT @irinacalciu: And if you're new to the systems community, check out the preview session with background info on the main ATC and OSDI to… 2021-07-12 00:19:30 RT @irinacalciu: I'm looking forward to @usenix ATC'21 and OSDI'21 this week. Really excited about the programs and joint keynote talks! #a… 2021-07-11 01:47:25 RT @sangeetha_a_j: Undergrads who are getting started with research often get stuck because they are unfamiliar with various tools. I now p… 2021-07-10 17:29:53 RT @HotStorage: REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please use the following link to register for free. https://t.co/eIzzWpzRH6 2021-07-10 15:19:42 RT @stub_AS: This is a great move. SIGCOMM / NSDI / CoNEXT / IMC / ... everyone should go this route. No meaningful or useful code or data… 2021-07-10 12:29:59 https://t.co/eumG3J8Tn8 2021-07-10 12:27:07 This is a great move! Artifacts *required* by SP moving forward. Enough with the "papers" that nobody could reproduce. https://t.co/67Eqb2lJmJ 2021-07-09 23:25:41 RT @vanessa_murdock: Read this whole thread. Direct communication is treated as a confrontation, forcing women to present as less certain,… 2021-07-09 21:47:59 RT @rasbt: "Introduction to Deep Learning -- 170 Video Lectures from daptive Linear Neurons to ero-shot Classification with Transformers"… 2021-07-08 19:11:06 RT @TedOnPrivacy: Personal news! Today's my last day at Google. My "shields down" moment was the firing of @timnitGebru, then @mmitchell_a… 2021-07-08 18:53:38 RT @dave_andersen: This thread is worth pondering. I agree with it. As someone who helps teach CS to new students at CMU, I agree with it.… 2021-07-08 17:29:03 RT @ShriramKMurthi: @jeanqasaur I went through a similar process and wrote something rather similar in my "manifesto" from a few years ago.… 2021-07-08 15:13:03 RT @MariaGorlatova: My Duke University research group is recruiting PhD students to start January 2022. We do fun work on next-generation p… 2021-07-08 01:16:24 RT @HeidyKhlaaf: Codex paper is out! I'm grateful to have led the Safety and PL workstreams for Codex/Copilot, working along Policy @OpenAI… 2021-07-05 21:06:25 RT @WiMLworkshop: 6/8 Due to the nature of the recent events at Google involving the treatment of the ethical AI team, the WiML board has d… 2021-07-05 17:58:07 RT @UTPortugal: On July 22, the UT Austin Portugal Program and the @bighpcproject consortium will host Webinar #1: Containerized Applica… 2021-07-05 13:46:33 RT @n4noa: Only a week left to apply! We are looking for an early career researcher to join our team, working at the intersection of #P4/… 2021-07-05 13:36:59 RT @jonlevyBU: 3 articles in today’s paper: - 95 dead from heat wave in OR - Challenges of summer school in buildings without AC - FL condo… 2021-07-04 15:04:22 RT @kc_srk: .@andre_costea and I are chairing the Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC) for ESOP '22 (new for ESOP!). If you are interested i… 2021-07-03 23:40:49 RT @satnam6502: I wish we would stop saying that strong mathematics skills are necessary for a computer programming career, and stop requir… 2021-07-03 23:40:25 RT @EvanMPeck: Stop using research productivity as the singular gatekeeper to 90% of academic positions and promotions. Academia has urgen… 2021-07-03 14:18:20 RT @linguangst: sometimes i wonder what i'll pinpoint in 10 or 20 years as the moment i realized we were well and truly fucked. "ocean's on… 2021-07-02 21:15:45 I think I first started following it for commentary on the meme stocks stuff and since then it's been consistently engaging and fun! 2021-07-02 21:15:03 I think it was @nikitab who first recommended Matt Levine's Money Stuff (from @bopinion) to me - it's one of the few newsletters that I consistently enjoy. The writing is conversational and easy to follow, and if you are interested in finance stuff, I highly recommend it! 2021-07-02 20:33:21 RT @mdekstrand: “Rules are choices”. This is so important. We should not just take the world as it is, but ask whether this is how it shoul… 2021-07-02 13:53:19 RT @MarcJBrooker: I find negative reactions to improved programmer tooling so disheartening. Surely tools that make writing correct code ea… 2021-07-01 22:11:57 RT @satnam6502: I am sad to see so much skepticism about #GitHubCopilot. I'm waitlisted for the pilot and can't wait to try it out. If thi… 2021-07-01 19:11:31 RT @ms705: Today, we release Tuplex (https://t.co/fJgqR2KKCp), a new system that turns Python data science pipelines into efficient, optimi… 2021-06-30 22:23:48 RT @dailytarheel: BREAKING: The Board of Trustees has voted 9-4 to approve Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure application. 2021-06-30 17:14:29 RT @UTAustin: Hundreds of millions of people across the globe have been immunized against COVID-19 with vaccines that use the team's spike… 2021-06-30 17:14:00 RT @theREALmarvin: Last year 1 in 7 Americans experienced food insecurity, including 15m children. Hard for many of us to believe but nice… 2021-06-30 16:04:11 RT @Skiminok: So stoked to finally discuss Copilot! I've used it inside MSR for months, watched it evolve, and discussed collabs. [Disclai… 2021-06-30 15:34:02 RT @mark_riedl: Some thoughts about Github Copilot and copyright (I am not a lawyer). Copilot uses a version of GPT3 trained on GPL licen… 2021-06-29 23:14:11 RT @rajiinio: It's wild to see that paper about Wiki pages for women being regularly deleted for not being "notable" enough, while seeing t… 2021-06-29 18:01:57 Excellent thread. I could follow this despite not being an expert in ML or security. Highly recommend folks post such high-level understandable tweets or blog posts about their work! https://t.co/rq49XJDeKk 2021-06-29 15:49:58 @georgemporter @nikitab In Texas, nobody has to be vaccinated :( 2021-06-29 15:49:06 RT @georgemporter: https://t.co/UwGfSHewrH 2021-06-29 15:48:44 RT @syardi: fun fact - I've created about 20 Wikipedia biography pages for academics since 2007 (about one a year). If anyone wants to try… 2021-06-28 23:53:08 RT @gregd_nlp: Check out @JiachengNLP's latest paper on analyzing summarization models, to appear at ACL 2021. Much of the analysis, like a… 2021-06-28 23:00:50 @lorisdanto Congratulations! 2021-06-28 17:55:39 RT @__apf__: sometimes people ask me if I have any twitter tips. I have exactly 1 twitter tip: you don't need to win arguments on the inter… 2021-06-28 14:03:38 RT @usenix: Three days remaining to apply for a grant for USENIX ATC '21--the deadline is July 1! This conference is being held virtually J… 2021-06-28 02:48:50 RT @JessicaCalarco: 7-year-old: Will you play family with me? Me: Sure. How do we play? 7-year-old: I'm the mom, and I'm going to a confe… 2021-06-26 13:12:40 RT @juansequeda: Publish or perish is not helping science. The change must come from the top, from the way the system evaluated scientist.… 2021-06-26 02:03:21 RT @kelly_zvobgo: Motion to replace “underrepresented” with “historically excluded.” Precision matters 2021-06-25 19:14:25 @schemeprincess The Superhero network is a great initiative! How can I help apart from spreading the word? 2021-06-25 18:09:56 RT @maheshb: Great advice from @AlonHalevy's SIGMOD talk on how to pick between academia / research labs / industry: "what is the unfair ad… 2021-06-25 17:05:31 RT @schemeprincess: Thanks to a suggestion from my sister @_wangsharon, who is starting her PhD in clinical psychology on sexual violence a… 2021-06-25 16:02:43 @AkshithaSriram1 @CarnegieMellon @CMU_ECE @SCSatCMU Congratulations! 2021-06-25 14:28:14 RT @nathanlawkc: 1. Most of you may not understand how dreadful the closure of Apple Daily means to Hong Kong. Not only to its journalistic… 2021-06-25 01:44:16 @ShanthaRMohan @CarnegieMellon Shantha, we need a twitter handle for CEG, and I think you would be a great person to run it! 2021-06-25 00:54:19 RT @KWhiteheadLab: Friendly reminder not to seek @DARPA funding unless you’re comfortable having 0 days notice that all funding is being pu… 2021-06-24 20:22:19 @moarbugs Yup, I agree with that rule. 2021-06-24 20:08:27 This is also a denial of service attack on authors: just keep uploading papers to Arxiv, doesn't matter if it's true, and nobody can publish anything if they have to stop and read and digest (and possibly refute!) everything on Arxiv. 2021-06-24 20:07:00 Part of the reason we do peer review is because it's a centralization of effort: we spend energy as a community once to tell if something is right or wrong. I would rather not force authors to do this as hoc for each paper going up on Arxiv. 2021-06-24 20:06:04 I think there is a nuance here: if you build directly on top of a work, you should cite regardless of whether it is published. On the other hand, do you need to read, understand, and cite all possibly related papers on Arxiv? I would say no. https://t.co/FhEzDqjzHk 2021-06-24 20:01:42 RT @theakozakis: I’m tired of tweeting about the prevalence of harassment in academia or how I felt when it happened to me (multiple times)… 2021-06-24 20:00:29 @eeide @sigplan @PLDI @johnregehr Congratulations to the whole team! 2021-06-24 20:00:14 RT @eeide: Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, John Regehr, and I are honored to receive the ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI 2011 Paper Award, for "F… 2021-06-24 18:51:23 RT @mtrc: Azalea’s worked incredibly hard over the last year to establish herself at Imperial, and has so much exciting work planned. She’s… 2021-06-24 17:55:31 RT @CarnegieMellon: Congratulations to Raj Reddy This evening, he will be inducted as a fellow into the @ComputerHistory Museum for his… 2021-06-24 17:13:23 RT @justinesherry: Congratulations to this year's @n2women Rising Stars! https://t.co/xx57iruPxT 2021-06-24 14:42:30 RT @satnam6502: 3. write papers only about things that surprise you, not every detail that was worked out 4. in industry take advantage of… 2021-06-24 14:07:25 RT @satnam6502: @SriramRajamani explains his success as an industry researcher at #PLDI2021: 1. solve problems that many people care about,… 2021-06-23 20:17:10 It's better when its the same reviewers handling the revision, because there is some consistency in expectations. But I'm not a fan of carrying reviews over for a new set of reviewers. 2021-06-23 20:05:27 Love this! I've learnt to decode reviews exactly like this too. This is why I get annoyed when reviews are carried over from one conf to another, and the new set of reviewers ask us to fix everything the old set complained about. I want to say "that's not really what they meant!" https://t.co/5nrBFE2yXO 2021-06-23 20:03:54 RT @RanjitJhala: "... they have a small repertoire of 'crying' sounds (not novel, not surprising etc.) Like parents who learn to decode tho… 2021-06-23 17:36:30 RT @TweetAtAKK: Yes, and he was discriminated against and tortured by his ungrateful nation for being gay and forced to kill himself. You… 2021-06-23 16:11:34 RT @CarnegieMellon: "On this International Women in Engineering Day, I am proud to be one. The problem-solving mind never rests. Here's to… 2021-06-23 16:08:27 RT @QuinnyPig: In which I demonstrate how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a month in an @awscloud “free tier” account without spea… 2021-06-23 13:32:38 RT @tim_hosgood: https://t.co/2mKTvwbjXV https://t.co/XV3G7UOtf7 2021-06-23 13:29:36 RT @sangeetha_a_j: Suicide is the leading cause of death for young women in India. India has 18% of the world's female population but 36% o… 2021-06-23 02:11:19 You can get dinged at both ends of the spectrum https://t.co/hb6AsA8gXi 2021-06-22 22:51:43 This is how I read too! And why I don't buy physical books anymore, though I love the smell and feel of new books :( most of my reading is now in the "in-between" times throughout the day https://t.co/AtrWnfq0Eb 2021-06-22 22:41:18 @juansequeda Well, it's money on the side of industry, and publications on the side of academia. You pick your poison :) but the end goal is impact for both But we are on the same page in that it's the work that should matter, not the publications. We get there by making it easy to publish 2021-06-22 22:04:41 @juansequeda I do agree that the paper should talk about prior attempts to solve the problem in related work. But that only provides context, and isn't enough to accept or reject IMO 2021-06-22 22:01:59 @juansequeda Regardless of why it hasn't been done before, the fact remains that the paper has done it, and this merits publication IMO. Not only "hard" stuff should be published! 2021-06-22 16:50:30 RT @random_walker: Academia rewards clever papers over real world impact. That makes it less useful. But it also perpetuates privilege—thos… 2021-06-22 15:53:51 @barik @jhasomesh At least the chairs are trying :) Positive intent is a great first step :) 2021-06-22 15:49:03 Love multiple aspects of this from UIST 21: - Clearly lays out expectations, including when a paper should *not* be penalized - More structured feedback - Taught me a new word: bricolage https://t.co/9hFvepbCss 2021-06-22 15:47:24 @barik @jhasomesh This is a great step forward! 2021-06-22 15:45:36 RT @barik: @vj_chidambaram @jhasomesh UIST 2021 did this with regards to Systems Contributions, with the explicit recognition that a system… 2021-06-22 15:36:29 Its great that senior folks like @jhasomesh are pushing back on this. We need more of this please! My idea is that each conference should have a list of things they will *not* reject papers for. This should be released at CFP time, and reviewers should be held to this. 2021-06-22 15:35:06 The sad irony is that almost all the ideas that have large impact are simple and straightforward. By rejecting papers for being "straightforward" or "not surprising", reviewers are *actively* blocking progress in science. https://t.co/AEclqzV7Ux 2021-06-22 15:28:03 RT @JCHartzell: Well-deserved recognition for @UTAustin Professor Jason McLellan whose biomedical research helped develop vaccines and trea… 2021-06-22 13:48:07 RT @sangeetha_a_j: From Jul 1, UC faculty and staff are eligible for up to 8 weeks of leave every year at 70% pay to support caring for a s… 2021-06-22 00:15:24 RT @KateLaskowski: After years of careful study I can safely it is almost exactly 1,000 times more difficult to get a 'negative' result pub… 2021-06-21 21:06:38 RT @jamescham: Most machine learning “learns” the ways bureaucracies learn rather than the ways babies learn. 2021-06-21 16:11:17 RT @usenix: Grants are available to cover the cost of registration for OSDI '21. 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It doesn’t matter if it’s computing or law or any other field, the Title IX process is horribly broken… 2021-06-18 18:39:02 RT @madsjw: IFDS Summer School on Fundamentals of Data Science in Madison (mixed in person-virtual) July 26-30. Sign up now! https://t.co/2… 2021-06-18 18:12:29 RT @afd_icl: We have two open postdoc positions on next-generation fuzzing techniques - exceptional pre-doctoral researchers also considere… 2021-06-17 20:39:22 When I joined UT, I originally assumed undergraduate students would be well exposed to what happens to grad school. I was surprised to find out this is not the case. So I started giving this talk to undergraduate students! 2021-06-17 20:38:28 @UTCompSci The talk borrows from the wisdom of both @mattmight and Philip Guo. Its the best way I know of motivating and explaining grad school to undergraduate students! 2021-06-17 20:37:36 Finally recorded a talk that I've been giving at @UTCompSci and at CEG: Why you should go to grad school (explaining PhD and Masters degree for undergraduate students) Youtube: https://t.co/IOZ3YviLrs 2021-06-17 19:41:45 RT @ingo_S: I currently have five fully-funded (!) open positions (PhD student/postdoc with 100 % salary) working on "Machine Learning for… 2021-06-17 17:36:14 RT @CRAtweets: Applications are open for Google’s 2021 exploreCSR awards for undergraduate computing research workshops - https://t.co/wu8A… 2021-06-17 16:03:36 @schemeprincess Yeah, I agree. All my peers who came back from industry jobs were super motivated! 2021-06-17 15:43:30 @schemeprincess The only caveat is that it is kind of tough to go from earning six figures to basically eating noodles for six years :) a lot of students who take up swe roles never come back. Which is fine, but something to keep in mind when making the decision! 2021-06-17 14:46:47 RT @cfiesler: Science fiction is also often written by people who think about the future, in order to encourage people who aren't thinking… 2021-06-17 14:26:51 RT @_pdarragh: "I wouldn’t say the toxic side of his persona is the biggest part. Though it does make the biggest impres­sion." from "Why… 2021-06-17 14:25:46 RT @TaliaRinger: I don't know who wrote this, but it's yet another example if the irreparable harm we do not just to other human beings but… 2021-06-17 07:27:48 RT @usenix: As part of our commitment to encourage diversity in advanced computing, we offer Diversity Grants for our conferences. All comp… 2021-06-17 00:03:10 This is such a bad idea. Almost everyone agrees requiring training is good thing. https://t.co/Bw3zCm9ArT 2021-06-16 22:58:30 There are definitely people out there with the mentality of "let's do the most obvious thing faster than others" but this is a poor way to do science, filled with anxiety and always looking over your shoulder, afraid that some other team will get there first. 2021-06-16 22:53:43 I didn't want to share this even further, but to be clear: this kind of thinking is toxic, and if you see a dept or a lab managed in this way, get away from them. There are many labs run by people with genuine curiosity and care, work with them instead. https://t.co/kmKOqPvqZk 2021-06-16 21:22:42 RT @matthiaskue: My favorite ICCV review so far: "What you do is not new, but nobody did it before, which is why the previous works should… 2021-06-16 21:14:14 @samps Congratulations! 2021-06-16 21:14:03 RT @akankshajain: Come join us for the "ML for Arch/Systems" workshop this Saturday. 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We have exciting sessions today, including the Highlights session where we present great work that has appeared elsewhere! Youtube: https://t.co/ymu85WtdFo Zoom: https://t.co/mLqSfvX3GF 2021-06-16 02:42:22 RT @DudespostingWs: Man received a nice letter from the person who purchased his VHS player https://t.co/n32eTZx8JG 2021-06-16 01:12:15 RT @usenix: Grants are available to cover the cost of registration for OSDI '21, and the deadline is coming up soon on July 1! Our grant of… 2021-06-16 00:07:57 @dantsafrir I agree it's a weak argument but I'm not sure a champion would always prevail :) not everyone is as persuasive and persistent as you are! 2021-06-15 23:49:55 @dantsafrir I've been on both sides of this, both arguing for rejection and acceptance of such papers. What I'm trying to get at is that as a matter of policy we should accept papers that some reviewers find value in, if there is nothing technically wrong with the paper. Thats all :) 2021-06-15 23:43:23 @dantsafrir Imagine a case where there is novelty but the amount of contribution is not deemed enough by some reviewers, while other reviewers feel there is enough contribution. The disagreement relates to how straightforward the system and it's techniques are. I've seen this get rejected. 2021-06-15 23:29:25 @EarlenceF You get at an important point: it shouldn't be upto reviewers discretion! This kind of stuff should be written down and hence force all reviewers to be uniform (as much we can). Everyone considers themselves reasonable :) 2021-06-15 23:26:03 @dantsafrir I think everyone favors simplicity "in theory". It's judging when a paper is "too simple" versus "simple but nice" that's tricky :) one reviewers "simple and nice" is another reviewers "too simple" :) 2021-06-15 23:07:32 @schemeprincess @lindsey This paper doesn't implement these optimizations that I can think of. Better to reject it to give them a chance to make a stronger paper! 2021-06-15 22:59:18 RT @usenix: Grants are available to cover the cost of registration for USENIX ATC '21. Our grant offerings include Diversity Grants, Studen… 2021-06-15 22:38:37 RT @santoshgnag: @polikarn My student says "Try out our new math library". With auto-generated subtitles, it became "try a meth lab" 2021-06-15 21:29:56 RT @Adam235711: It's okay to advise your PhD advisor. "Can we schedule a practice talk?" "Can you please read this and give me feedback?" "… 2021-06-15 19:52:42 RT @harmankkaur: Weekly reminder for @UMichCSE (and academia): there's no 50-50, neutrality, or not TAKEing-a-SIDE in a situation with powe… 2021-06-15 19:50:14 @EarlenceF @ElaineRShi I think CFPs should explicitly say in their call for papers that they won't reject for a list of reasons, and then hold reviewers to that standard. Otherwise it becomes the whims of each reviewer involved. 2021-06-15 19:36:38 @lindsey Yes definitely true! There is also the "not enough for this posh conf" line of thought. Often this is used to reject otherwise good papers: "paper is good, but not good enough for this conf" 2021-06-15 19:33:39 RT @tim_kraska: We just started a new ML for Systems blog. The first blog is by @andreaskipf on our Learned Index Benchmark and Leaderboard… 2021-06-15 18:24:48 RT @red_abebe: Congratulations to @YaleCompsci on this decision! This decision has drastically change the application pool to our PhD pro… 2021-06-15 18:21:34 Our PCs incentivize folks to reject simple papers, because they don't want to be seen as having a low bar by others. There is a performative aspect. It takes a lot of self-confidence and courage to be the person that says "this paper is simple but effective, let us accept it" 2021-06-15 18:19:27 The funny/sad thing is that its the same people (us)! Person A to me: my paper got rejected because they said it was too simple (boo) (later) Person A on PC: let us reject this paper because it is too simple Me: !!! https://t.co/nYlaENGvEI 2021-06-15 17:56:03 RT @FarnoushAmiri: In a huge departure, @AP will no longer name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chanc… 2021-06-15 17:33:06 The keynote by Alexandra Fedorova on disaggregated systems is about to start at @SystorC conference! Watch it live on Youtube or on Zoom if you have registered! https://t.co/coZNzePi3O 2021-06-15 17:22:04 RT @_TheodoreKim: The faculty of @YaleCompsci voted just minutes ago to entirely eliminate GRE scores from our PhD application process. Hoo… 2021-06-15 15:31:43 RT @PersianPoetics: In English we suddenly 'fall in love,' but in Persian love comes in stages: First the 'havā' (infatuation) of youth, th… 2021-06-15 14:05:38 @SystorC @sanidhya_k is starting us off with the session on NVM! Later on, we have @huaichengli chairing the storage session, and @aasthakm chairing the security session. 2021-06-15 14:02:00 Join us for Day 2 of ACM SYSTOR @SystorC today! We have interesting sessions on NVM, storage, and security, and a keynote on disaggregated systems by Alexandra Fedorova from UBC! https://t.co/dnMe8XPoiL 2021-06-15 01:06:50 This is embarrassing https://t.co/pCpfn4pTOO 2021-06-14 19:51:53 @ricardogmacedo Congratulations! 2021-06-14 18:46:20 @mark_riedl Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you did. I just found it so terrible! 2021-06-14 18:13:55 @cfiesler Wow, congratulations! This is super impressive! 2021-06-14 17:34:02 @HadasKressGazit Congratulations! 2021-06-14 17:32:38 @mark_riedl I found the advice extremely dumb and anxiety inducing 2021-06-14 16:29:44 RT @CatchTheseWords: Thread: This is a non-exhaustive list of the ways lecturers at @UniversityLeeds have made my experience as a blind stu… 2021-06-14 16:06:32 RT @philipshilane: Attending @SystorC today. Interesting keynote on synchronization problems from Shan Lu @shanluchicago 2021-06-14 15:59:57 Distinguished Reviewers at SYSTOR 21: @LukasRupprecht, Redha Gouicem, Thanu Pillai, @arpanbg, @huaichengli, James Mickens, Moshe Gabel, @ladypineOrna, and @rstutsman! Thank you for your great reviews and hope this serves as encouragement for more great reviews :) 2021-06-14 15:59:21 Congratulations to all the authors! We also recognized a set of Distinguished Reviewers who went above and beyond with their high-quality, detailed reviews! 2021-06-14 15:53:26 Best Paper Runner-up #2: S2Dedup: SGX-enabled Secure Deduplication by Mariana Miranda, Tânia Esteves, Bernardo Portela∗, João Paulo (@INESCTEC & 2021-06-14 15:50:43 Best Paper Runner-up #1: BDUS: Implementing Block Devices in User Space by Alberto Faria, Ricardo Macedo, José Pereira, João Paulo (INESC TEC @INESCTEC & 2021-06-14 15:47:35 @shanluchicago Best Paper Award: To Move or Not to Move? - Page Migration for Irregular Applications in Over-subscribed GPU Memory Systems with DynaMap by Chia-Hao Chang, Adithya Kumar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam from @PennStateEECS 2021-06-14 15:18:55 Best Paper Talk on page migration in over-subscribed GPUs currently happening in ACM SYSTOR 21! Congratulations to the authors from @PennStateEECS! "To Move or Not to Move? - Page Migration for Irregular Applications in Over-subscribed GPU Memory Systems with DynaMap" https://t.co/3jXmt4wSt6 2021-06-14 14:54:29 RT @LeaKissner: If you're on the internet, you have almost certainly befitted from USENIX's open access. I am not going to bust my NDAs to… 2021-06-14 14:23:30 Join us for ACM SYSTOR 21 live on Youtube! @shanluchicago is currently giving an awesome keynote about her concurrency work! https://t.co/59f8nsZoPj 2021-06-14 02:32:53 RT @davidwdowdy: A reflection thread for junior scientists - but also myself. It's worth thinking, "when other people talk about me, what… 2021-06-14 01:01:13 RT @Mathgarden: I got this from a former student this morning. I only share this because of historical dislike of grades/assessment. He fai… 2021-06-13 23:00:39 RT @PersianPoetics: In Persian 'I miss you' is 'delam barāyat tang shodeh' which means 'your absence constricts my heart.' 2021-06-13 17:29:57 RT @bariskasikci: You can still sign up for OSDI/ATC joint mentorship sessions! This is a great opportunity for early career researchers, s… 2021-06-13 14:14:24 RT @withoutboats: The best thing young people can do early in their career is get ridiculous lucky breaks repeatedly, in my experience 2021-06-13 04:01:28 @barik Yup, totally agree! I dont find anyone would disagree with "find more ways to be impactful in the work that you do" 2021-06-13 03:43:46 @sergey_nog True! But I think the overall company culture also matters. 2021-06-13 03:43:09 @barik Yeah, no disagreements on that. But there are several points in thread where she implies young people *should* feel motivated to work on weekends, and if they don't, there is something wrong. I disagree pretty strongly with this view. 2021-06-13 02:32:39 A good thread to see which companies to avoid when you are applying for your first job. There is a huge difference between choosing to work some weekends, and your employer consistently expecting it from you. https://t.co/UtAXmJ3oEl 2021-06-12 21:32:23 RT @themaxburns: Jennifer Rocha, the daughter of immigrants and the first in her family to attend college, shared this powerful graduation… 2021-06-12 17:05:59 @hyc_symas @john_r365 Would love to chat more with you or @john_r365 if you have more comments! 2021-06-12 17:05:24 @hyc_symas @john_r365 Finally, we are also concerned with increasing centralization, which is why RainBlock doesn't need a specific memory capacity of each storage server. We simply shard the state until it fits in memory of a commodity server. But we will need this new class of nodes, thats true. 2021-06-12 17:04:14 @hyc_symas @john_r365 4. Ethereum has the stateless client proposal, which introduced a new class of storage nodes. So I think the community is okay with introducing storage node. The proposal was dropped as it increased network traffic too much, a problem solved by RainBlock 2021-06-12 17:03:14 @hyc_symas @john_r365 3. Another nice thing about Rainblock is its architecture, which moves I/O out of the critical path. This again has nothing to do with DRAM, mainly about how a tx is submitted and mined 2021-06-12 17:02:26 @hyc_symas @john_r365 2. You have captured the basic insights nicely. RockDB is a poor fit (being write-optimized) for mining txs (a read-dominated operation). Yet Ethereum continues to use RocksDB, so it was worth pointing this out :) 2021-06-12 17:01:16 @hyc_symas @john_r365 Thanks for the comments @hyc_symas! I agree mostly with the characterization, with a few caveats: 1. The work is more than throwing DRAM at the problem. If you took Ethereum and simply used DRAM to store all its state, you wouldn't get anywhere near the perf of Rainblock 2021-06-11 23:32:26 RT @mustach_io: @jeanqasaur @0xabU @owenarden @danrkports @johnregehr @barik BTW: @usenix was phenomenal in their process, sincerity, confi… 2021-06-11 23:32:24 RT @mustach_io: @jeanqasaur @0xabU @owenarden @danrkports @johnregehr @barik Yeah you have to have a process to investigate. Where people w… 2021-06-11 20:34:35 RT @TaliaRinger: The ADHD tax of paying out of pocket because it is prohibitively difficult to submit reimbursements 2021-06-11 19:41:55 I want to give a special shout-out to my student @Ponnapalli95: doing this work required a lot of time and effort. It is hard to get blockchain papers published in systems conferences. But she stuck with the project, driving it to a successful finish! I'm very proud! 2021-06-11 19:39:37 For more details, check out the paper here: https://t.co/wLIEVeDslx Code is up on Github: https://t.co/qJWbshDxZC 2021-06-11 19:39:10 Our work introduces a new architecture for public blockchains that removes I/O out of the critical path and removes other I/O bottleneck. We show that, without modifying Proof-of-Work consensus, we can improve tx throughput by more than 20x! 2021-06-11 19:37:56 In other words, verifying txs is bottlenecked mainly by I/O operations! If you can remove the I/O bottlenecks, you can verify txs faster, and build bigger blocks of txs that are sealed with proof-of-work and sent out over the network. 2021-06-11 19:36:51 Each node in a public blockchain must verify the txs in each block it receives before it can build on top of that block. The verification step involves accessing state stored in a Merkle tree, which is serialized and stored in a RocksDB database. 2021-06-11 19:35:36 @vmwareresearch @novi @Ponnapalli95 The main insight behind our work is realizing that Proof-of-Work does not inherently limit how many transactions you can pack into each block: the real bottleneck is that a new block must be propagated and verified by new nodes within a certain time limit (e.g, 10--12 seconds) 2021-06-11 19:33:11 Proud to share our work on a new architecture for public blockchains that can perform 20K txs/s, *without* modifying the proof-of-work consensus! This is joint work with @vmwareresearch and @novi, led by @Ponnapalli95! It wil be presented at ATC 21. https://t.co/wLIEVeDslx https://t.co/zff7CIA5ot 2021-06-10 20:17:46 RT @TaliaRinger: Please do spread the word about @SigplanM to aspiring or current PL researchers! I've poured my heart and soul into kickin… 2021-06-10 14:15:44 @pbailis @kexinrong @matei_zaharia Congratulations @kexinrong! 2021-06-10 14:14:30 RT @rodrigo_fonseca: Seen this morning in Providence, RI :) https://t.co/9Hzr6Olrjr 2021-06-10 13:05:04 RT @CompArchSA: First session is tomorrow! Be sure to register for each of the three sessions currently announced, and sign on for the… 2021-06-10 00:13:26 RT @awilkinson: Someone has literally recreated Photoshop feature for feature, for free, in the browser https://t.co/N8ZQPLoGVw 2021-06-10 00:11:25 https://t.co/Ii6CIocZyX 2021-06-09 23:29:21 RT @lindsey: My spring 2021 distributed systems course finished up last week, and the full set of lecture videos is now up: https://t.co/2V… 2021-06-09 22:09:00 RT @Zhou_Yu_AI: New NSF postdoc fellowship available ENGINEERING FELLOWSHIP, Applications will be accepted from June 21 through July 6, 202… 2021-06-09 21:44:06 RT @TheppsMIT: Cool program for postdocs. Feel free to reach out if interested. https://t.co/Wew96UiVwO 2021-06-09 21:08:02 @priyalsuneja @tianyin_xu @UCSDJacobs @ucsd_cse @WICatUCSD @UW @UCSanDiego Congratulations Priyal! 2021-06-09 21:00:35 RT @ezraklein: from @povertyscholar. Everything she says in this podcast is worth hearing. Don't miss it. https://t.co/SIpjrJhqYv https… 2021-06-09 17:32:13 @AkshithaSriram1 @bariskasikci congratulations @bariskasikci! 2021-06-09 16:22:56 RT @tianyin_xu: A good summary of the CS CARES committee at @IllinoisCS -- "To stand up for what is right, to hear others’ complaints and r… 2021-06-09 16:15:48 RT @deniswirtz: 4. New NSF investment in STEM education and workforce development, from < 5. Sena… 2021-06-09 16:15:35 RT @deniswirtz: The Senate just voted 68-32 for: 1. Doubling of the NSF budget over 5 years 2. 40% increase in funding for NSF’s core… 2021-06-09 16:03:08 RT @vaastav05: If you attended the HotOS Trivia Event we hosted last week then please consider taking 2 minutes out of your time to fill ou… 2021-06-09 15:40:07 @realhamed Yes, I agree a legal framework would be the best, but at least for universities who want to do the right thing, I think having a common voluntary framework would help. 2021-06-09 15:26:45 @realhamed So the way I envision this is like the Paris accord: the university signs on to say that sexual harassment cases in its domain will be handled in a certain way (e.g., within six months) with certain protocols etc. Nobody external is enforcing this: that has to come from Congress. 2021-06-09 15:20:49 RT @HarperKeenan: Your regular reminder that making alcohol the center or focus of professional networking events makes it a pretty alienat… 2021-06-09 15:10:41 @realhamed If ACM could do this while avoiding its own conflicts of interests, that would be great! But I don't think it needs ACM per se: a group of universities could decide to do it. The ACM side is what happens at confs and to publications, the univ side is what happens to victims. 2021-06-09 15:04:27 I was thinking along the same lines. Develop an independent standard or protocol and get university admins to sign on to it? If a couple of big univs sign on, others are more likely to join. https://t.co/cFclfCpkJu 2021-06-09 14:24:08 RT @RanveerChandra: Please encourage strong PhD students to apply for the prestigious Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship. I was one of the r… 2021-06-09 03:23:27 RT @Rainmaker1973: The story of Ingeborg Rapoport, who, in 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she su… 2021-06-09 02:41:45 @adalbertgerald @ucsd_cse @UCSDJacobs Congratulations! 2021-06-09 01:28:10 RT @PictureaSciFilm: We’re so thrilled to announce that #PictureAScientist will be streaming on @netflix starting June 13. Mark your calend… 2021-06-09 01:12:01 @JonSolworth Sure, have a high bar for firing the guy. But I think the bar for making sure students are protected and not in contact with the guy have already been met. 2021-06-09 00:38:17 RT @joerwallen: Over the last week, @SimonTownsley & 2021-06-08 22:10:37 RT @MarkLevineNYC: Under-appreciated way to get your covid vax in NYC: in-home vaccination. Open to: * Anyone aged 75+ * NYers of all ages… 2021-06-08 20:33:37 RT @timnitGebru: 15/ "She’s raising money to launch an independent research institute modeled on her work on Google’s Ethical AI team and h… 2021-06-08 20:26:29 @danrkports @UMichCSE @UMich I think if we took these events and wrote it as a fictional novel, people would say its not believable and a bit too on-the-nose. 2021-06-08 20:20:52 No shit. And this is who the law wants us to mandatorily report to. They really should have this hanging over their offices: "We are not advocacy offices" (we are HR for the university) 2021-06-08 20:19:43 Straight from the horse's mouth: "I think, sort of from the onset of sexual misconduct issues, it can oftentimes be difficult and challenging for a Title IX office because students are sometimes surprised when they learn that we are not advocacy offices,” Strickman said" https://t.co/eZrkEGq2UB 2021-06-08 20:18:46 @danrkports @UMichCSE @UMich Wow its wild that she was sued for mishandling student reports at UNL and then @UMich OIE thought "ooh this is the kind of person we need to hire" 2021-06-08 20:16:24 RT @danrkports: @vj_chidambaram @UMichCSE @UMich It’s hard not to see this as intentional on their OIE’s part, especially considering… htt… 2021-06-08 18:31:20 Now consider the case when *four* women step forward, with names on the line, to report. How can you read a report and conclude that the OIE office did their job right here? How does that make sense? 2021-06-08 18:30:05 But when the second person steps forward, and is willing to take all this pain to stop the abusive prof, a rational person *must* conclude the odds of the prof being innocent are getting close to zero. I don't think you can keep an open mind any longer. 2021-06-08 18:28:50 Like, if it were a single person reporting, in their mind it could be 50% true or false (ignoring the cost of coming forward, that there is no benefit for the reporter, that the vast majority of such reports are true). 2021-06-08 18:27:07 For all the claims of "dont take a side" and be open until the report comes out, I can't understand how a seemingly rational person sees 4 separate women report (and 20+ women come forward) and somehow come to the conclusion that the prof under question did nothing wrong? 2021-06-08 18:08:46 @UMichCSE I don't know how the @UMich OIE office continues to function. Their malice and/or incompetence is clear. They must have known what they are doing to students. Did they mess up or is their actual job function? How do they sleep at night? 2021-06-08 18:04:27 This is heart-breaking to read. I would like to know what @UMichCSE plans to do going forward. What is the plan to deal with Jason Mars? If sexual harassers get tenure, are students supposed to suffer under them forever with no recourse? https://t.co/VhE2UNIud4 2021-06-08 15:06:29 @syardi This idiot is not a professor/teacher, and it shows. 2021-06-08 14:59:40 @Tellitl99779410 @jsysresearch I think you have a misunderstanding of @jsysresearch based on the tier-1/tier-2 comment. The goal of JSys is to not play such games. JSys will never be an "exclusive" arbitrarily-scarce venue. Over time, we do expect quality work will be published at JSys. 2021-06-08 14:58:01 @Tellitl99779410 @jsysresearch USENIX doesn't make money off publications, so their conferences are generally more expensive than ACM -- its how they pay their staff. ACM has a lot more volunteers for each conf, but still has similar prices. 2021-06-08 14:55:54 @Tellitl99779410 @jsysresearch Yes, we don't expect a culture change right away. It will take 5 years at least before @jsysresearch is a reputable venue. But we are willing to put in the effort :) True change takes time! I don't think changing SOSP is a feasible idea. 2021-06-08 02:19:51 RT @DrMonicaCox: You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on #DEI efforts, but I’m giving you the 2 things that must happen for change to… 2021-06-08 02:14:47 RT @jonlevyBU: We are hiring a post-doc in @busphEH to work on a study of aviation source contributions to community air pollution. Duties… 2021-06-07 22:12:27 RT @ClimateHuman: I am concerned that the US West is heading into a fire season that will dwarf the 2020 fire season, which itself was an e… 2021-06-07 20:50:08 RT @yelperalp: We're growing our team, looking for a senior Angular developer for the Power BI frontend! (working on a vis FE that millions… 2021-06-07 20:33:42 RT @TheOfficialACM: Congratulations to Margaret Martonosi of @PrincetonCS for receiving the 2021 Eckert-Mauchly Award! She is being recogni… 2021-06-07 18:31:09 RT @ralucaadapopa: Thank you #IonStoica for your generous gift to our department! Very inspiring. I am fortunate to have you as a close col… 2021-06-07 18:28:23 @vaastav05 https://t.co/d7l8ZvLfol 2021-06-07 18:17:22 Strongly agree. This is why journals like @jsysresearch are needed where neither authors or readers pay anything. $250 is a lot of money for people in countries like India. https://t.co/6o2XzomchF 2021-06-07 18:14:30 @tianyin_xu @JialinLiNUS Agreed! 2021-06-07 16:32:13 RT @awsTO: I've written a book: Introduction to Neural Network Verification. You can find a pdf here: https://t.co/QMyFVAGha0 The boo… 2021-06-07 03:00:49 RT @butchanarchy: We need to get right with the reality that that’s not how life is. That the people we love can also do real harm. Being a… 2021-06-07 03:00:43 RT @butchanarchy: People don’t really know how to deal with the fact that someone precious to them can also be someone else’s abuser. Where… 2021-06-07 02:07:04 @johnregehr @bipartite TIL! 2021-06-07 01:55:03 @bipartite Wow, where is this? 2021-06-06 23:45:26 @dantsafrir Good idea! I hadn't thought of writing a script to do this. 2021-06-06 22:22:30 @schemeprincess @siobhcroo @johnregehr @bariskasikci Lets not compare to @bariskasikci. I'm convinced the man is not human. He is everywhere and doing everything! 2021-06-06 16:45:26 RT @vardi: Academic joke :-) https://t.co/gDGqeGMhrQ 2021-06-06 15:39:29 RT @AstroKatie: Sometimes I wonder if I chose the wrong science 2021-06-05 17:50:04 @rakingleaves @jatan_loya @brave @1Password yeah thats what I used to do before @brave 2021-06-05 17:48:04 @jatan_loya @brave @1Password I like @1Password too, but I liked the inbuilt integration that @brave had 2021-06-05 17:47:39 @HeidyKhlaaf Want to take a vacation? Put a conf there, even if it is expensive and hard to get to and reduces accessibility for a bunch of folks Want to meet friends? Only do this at conferences, never meet them outside Want to have a drink with friends? We must do this at confs! 2021-06-05 17:46:21 @HeidyKhlaaf Yes, I fully agree and I think there are a bunch of us who separate out the "work" part of our life. But we seem to be the minority though. In general, academic life seems to be tightly integrated into the personal, which I highly dislike. 2021-06-05 17:24:08 @RandomlyWalking @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK Sorry for snapping at you. I don't really have much to add. This tweet has a good discussion (https://t.co/bB9BSKrDfJ), summarized in this google doc: https://t.co/PFSdvhQlkY In this thread, @johnregehr has expressed the arguments against alchohol well: https://t.co/KDCg9Kp6AX 2021-06-05 17:07:40 @rdeviti I agree that people should learn to behave even without alcohol restrictions. However, I don't get why we have alcohol at work events in the first place, and I think moderating alcohol is something we should do for a number of reasons. 2021-06-05 15:36:39 @Higgs_X_Boson @brave I've been happy with how @brave handled passwords until today. I haven't used the sync feature before, good to know it doesnt work! 2021-06-05 15:24:31 I updated the OSX on my laptop and somehow this has caused @brave to forget all my passwords :( 2021-06-05 15:16:20 @rakamaric I think these are good ideas! I think programs like @sigarch CARES are a step in the right direction 2021-06-05 03:16:11 @TweetAtAKK Agree that more evidence would be great! 2021-06-05 02:11:29 @RandomlyWalking @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK I believe you are not arguing in good faith :) please continue to believe whatever you want. 2021-06-05 02:05:17 @RandomlyWalking @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK Regardless of whether we believe them, it gives them a plausible cover to provide to their supporters. I have seen people become rowdy and angry after too much alcohol at official events. 2021-06-05 01:37:00 @johnregehr At the end of the day, I think if we had strong evidence linking alcohol and harassment I think everyone will make the same decision (I hope) 2021-06-05 01:36:26 @johnregehr I think the argument is essentially "it's nice to get a drink with friends" which I totally understand and buy. And people are skeptical this will do much to stop harassment, which is also resonable. 2021-06-05 01:25:49 I originally tweeted this in response to this open letter from @umsi and other folks. One of the actionable items was removing alcohol from conferences. https://t.co/60UPn7zIb5 2021-06-05 01:22:16 So a wrap up to this, summarizing: 1. Moderation is the key, getting a drink is nice, having drunk superiors or colleagues is not 2. Folks want good non-alcoholic drinks and food options 3. The central problem is still folks who harass, this shouldn't take focus away from that. https://t.co/DbOFgoN28B 2021-06-05 01:09:10 @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK So I tweeted this since it's one of the actionable items in the @umsi open letter 2021-06-05 01:07:31 @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK I fully agree it is the people not the alcohol which is the root cause. But since we can't get rid of the people currently.. 2021-06-05 01:06:57 @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK I don't think there is consensus right now though I hope there is one around moderation of drinks 2021-06-05 01:03:07 @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK We can do both! I don't feel like it's an either or situation. Plus all im really arguing is some moderation with respect to alcohol, not banning it entirely 2021-06-05 00:58:05 @lorisdanto @TweetAtAKK I don't think it's the same situation please see thread for various folks pitching in with legitimate concerns about alcohol 2021-06-05 00:54:33 @TweetAtAKK The status quo doesn't really work for minorities today, and one common argument is to tie the status quo to "culture" and "tradition" thereby preventing any progress. We should examine why alcohol is necessary at a work event in the first place. 2021-06-05 00:53:07 @TweetAtAKK https://t.co/3bMbf58EIW And I agree that alcohol is not the cause per se, but it's something we should consider if it will help our students 2021-06-05 00:51:36 @gennadiy_civil That's what we have been doing all this time. The results aren't great. 2021-06-04 23:58:59 @siobhcroo I think the lunch with students got turned into a meeting with students instead now 2021-06-04 23:36:30 @EarlenceF @siobhcroo @schemeprincess @ShriramKMurthi @vishalmisra @danrkports @michaelfreedman I think the dinners were fun, but also tiring especially at the end of a long day. If the day began a bit later, that would help quite a bit. 2021-06-04 21:40:18 @siobhcroo I like that you have taken Chris out to a faculty candidate dinner, and Chris has (or could have) taken you out for a faculty candidate dinner 2021-06-04 21:24:11 RT @sigarch: A new reading group on diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer architecture begins June 10. https://t.co/SprG1xCNOV 2021-06-04 21:18:30 . Many times I was so tired that making coherent conversation was all I could do. https://t.co/BywVnmY1dB 2021-06-04 21:11:16 Resharing an article from @ksmckinley on the @sigarch blog: What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You https://t.co/ebQduoR2cW 2021-06-04 18:40:47 RT @eliothorowitz: Any students (under grad or grad) looking for a summer internship in NYC at the intersection of robotics, art, computer… 2021-06-04 18:31:15 @lorisdanto @yelperalp @WisconsinCS @UWMadison @uwcdis @UWMadisonLS Where is the poster that said "have some coffee, you can sleep when you are dead" 2021-06-04 17:07:27 RT @PDLComics: keeps you going https://t.co/WG3xfyn21r 2021-06-04 16:45:38 @bariskasikci @vaastav05 @tianyin_xu @stevemblackburn @xexd @sebsgangel @JialinLiNUS I think we should have probably one person in responsible of just managing this, to ensure a good experience. 2021-06-04 16:22:41 @georgemporter @JohnOusterhout I'm not sure why this is a problem. All reviewers could not read the appendix, and thats allowed. If a reviewer takes the time to read, they can present what they read to the other reviewers. This is also allowed. 2021-06-04 16:15:42 @realhamed @michaelfreedman @johnpaparrizos @JohnOusterhout I'm pretty sure if a community wide survey was sent out, the community would vote to accept more papers. 2021-06-04 16:14:32 @vaastav05 Have a non-commercial use license on your github repo and then you can charge for commercial access (theoretically). If these folks are making money off your data, you should get a chunk :) 2021-06-04 16:03:30 @michaelfreedman @johnpaparrizos @JohnOusterhout *some of the community :) Some, like me, are okay with multi-track :) 2021-06-04 15:41:27 RT @michaelfreedman: @JohnOusterhout @vj_chidambaram OSDI 2000: 24 papers OSDI 2010: 32 papers OSDI 2021: 31 papers 2021-06-04 14:38:01 @schemeprincess @FrancisYan_ Yes, I should have said like Seattle in winter :) Seattle in summer is gorgeous! 2021-06-04 02:40:49 @jhasomesh I see. Very surprised to learn that! Are early stage work just presented at the appropriate specialized workshop? 2021-06-04 02:39:16 @muratdemirbas The day isn't far off when all the sessions are either ML or verification 2021-06-04 02:37:41 @jhasomesh Are there no workshops in security? 2021-06-04 01:07:09 Been raining like it's Seattle for a week in Austin https://t.co/ssD6Mcn9Oc 2021-06-03 23:12:43 RT @michaelfreedman: @JohnOusterhout @vj_chidambaram Do this one next: Computer Science conferences should eliminate limits on the number o… 2021-06-03 23:09:07 @xwangsd @tianyin_xu @bariskasikci @stevemblackburn @xexd @sebsgangel @JialinLiNUS I think it depends on the workshop, and the content, and the community. HotOS in person has plenty of questions too 2021-06-03 23:03:45 @tianyin_xu @bariskasikci @stevemblackburn @xexd @sebsgangel @JialinLiNUS Fully agree on all these points! 2021-06-03 22:44:17 RT @JohnOusterhout: Computer Science conferences should eliminate page limits on the final versions of papers. For details, see https://t.c… 2021-06-03 22:43:45 @bariskasikci @xexd @sebsgangel Thanks for all your work! It was a very fun and smooth experience as an attendee! 2021-06-03 20:12:12 RT @juliekientz: hey @GoogleForEdu, it's pretty terrible of you to give universities free, unlimited storage for a few years, and after we… 2021-06-03 17:39:44 RT @justinschuh: In case no one else has done this one... https://t.co/CZLjNjKBtE 2021-06-03 17:38:13 RT @cfiesler: Yesterday I tweeted asking for thoughts about alcohol at academic conferences. I received so many thoughtful responses that I… 2021-06-03 17:11:52 RT @gregd_nlp: Two teaching materials announcements: 1. We just wrapped up an NLP course for our online MS program at UT. Videos available… 2021-06-03 16:14:35 @ppadala PDF: https://t.co/MekfhzFLTE Youtube: https://t.co/eFDEr7pIJm 2021-06-03 15:36:58 @nikitab Yes, I agree. The most famous recent one I can think of is Twizzler by @palvaro and @danielbittman 2021-06-03 15:32:04 Lol! Mothy at #HotOS21: "We found it hard to publish this OS design paper since it wasn't implemented using Linux, so we deleted the implementation and evaluation and made it a HotOS paper" :) 2021-06-03 15:25:16 I love when authors take advantage of the recorded video format and share video time among multiple authors :) 2021-06-03 13:16:25 RT @susie_dent: Word of the day is ‘spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively 2021-06-03 04:25:42 RT @arnabdotorg: Excited about the wave of new data startups looking at metadata management, lineage, provenance, and data quality. All imp… 2021-06-03 03:36:26 RT @JarettSays: This is most excellent: in light of what’s happening to Naomi Osaka, Calm App will pay the fine for any players opting out… 2021-06-03 03:29:29 @ShanthaRMohan Thank you! 2021-06-03 02:33:55 RT @bariskasikci: OSDI'21 and ATC'21 will have a joint mentoring scheme. Mentors and mentees, sign up here: https://t.co/ELX0dZ00OV Mentori… 2021-06-03 02:32:44 Re-sharing this: here's a quick 15 min clip from my class where I talk about grad school and answer common questions from undergraduate students about a PhD and a Masters https://t.co/tj2Ld7W1LL 2021-06-03 02:00:26 @dantsafrir But I think the goals can be achieved just with moderation, as in this tweet: https://t.co/fA659RZBcN 2021-06-03 01:59:22 @dantsafrir I think there are concerns other than inappropriate behavior after intoxication: https://t.co/m8092zxaQ0 2021-06-03 01:29:53 RT @TaliaRinger: @vj_chidambaram We should be decoupling conferences from drinking. Super weird to tie our academic lives to the use of a p… 2021-06-02 23:17:29 @afd_icl Yes, agreed :) I dont think its this extreme at other conferences. 2021-06-02 23:03:56 @afd_icl https://t.co/Gn0p6xJ9xw 2021-06-02 23:02:30 @afd_icl https://t.co/xhZrQd4gyH 2021-06-02 23:01:55 @afd_icl https://t.co/gLt1aTVWh3 2021-06-02 23:01:33 @afd_icl The original posters did a much better job explaining :) https://t.co/SF08r7Kd1C 2021-06-02 23:00:06 @afd_icl Sorry, forgot the thread: https://t.co/bB9BSKrDfJ 2021-06-02 22:59:46 @afd_icl And of course the concern which I think prompted all of this: that folks act inappropriately when drunk, and that abusers/predators use this as cover. 2021-06-02 22:59:00 @afd_icl See this thread for a number of concerns. Some of them: 1) Not everyone drinks, some folks cant participate in anything involving alcohol for religious reasons 2) Networking/brainstorming should not be coupled with alcohol 3) Students are anxious when profs get drunk around them 2021-06-02 22:35:27 @zehlyi Maybe I should run a twitter poll 2021-06-02 22:12:31 @zehlyi Wow, really? Must revise then :( 2021-06-02 22:12:07 @nbulusu Yes, I'm not saying alcohol is not the sole cause of sexism. Moderating/minimizing alcohol intake is merely one of the things we can do to improve inclusion. 2021-06-02 21:40:01 @nikitab Me too! I've usually just gone outside for dinners with friends at conferences. To me, the conference makes this meeting possible, but it doesn't need to be at the conference itself. 2021-06-02 21:26:51 @nikitab Interesting. I never think about this aspect at all. My choice of when to leave are based on how tired I am, how many friends are at the conference, etc. 2021-06-02 21:23:26 @nikitab Agree that we should have something to drink plus good food to eat! Doesn't necessarily need to be alcohol though. 2021-06-02 21:19:42 There is also this thread of "we must have alcohol otherwise how we will have good conversation" which is also weird to me. It's certainly nice to have something to drink, but nobody I know would leave a poster session because no alcohol. 2021-06-02 21:18:18 Some folks are arguing that conferences *must* include alcohol because otherwise people will just go outside and get a drink. My model of conferences attendees is that they will go where their friends are, not where the alcohol is. 2021-06-02 21:16:33 Great responses to this thread about alcohol at academic conferences. Check it out for multiple examples and perspectives on why centering social events around alcohol is bad. https://t.co/bB9BSKrDfJ 2021-06-02 21:14:33 RT @ehsan_hoque: @cfiesler Centering parties/networking events around alcohol puts students who don’t drink at a disadvantage. I have seen… 2021-06-02 21:14:22 RT @adjiboussodieng: Great. Few suggestions for grad school: 1/ Green card instead of OPT for PhD graduates. 2/ Visas for PhD studies shou… 2021-06-02 21:01:52 RT @jvitak: @cfiesler Perhaps tilting the balance of drinks would help. 1) Having to use a drink ticket to get water is ridiculous. 2) Of… 2021-06-02 20:37:53 @mustach_io And yes, we should try and do everything we can to make our conferences more welcoming and inclusive, even if that means doing a large number of small things. 2021-06-02 20:36:57 @mustach_io I'm not sure what evidence you want. There are multiple reports here on Twitter itself where students have talked about being uncomfortable due to alcohol. In the WL case, alcohol was a big excuse. 2021-06-02 20:35:51 @mustach_io https://t.co/Q21KevnCGM 2021-06-02 19:39:48 RT @grimalkina: @cfiesler Tons of nice structural suggestions here, but one thing I really wish faculty would do is have explicit, consider… 2021-06-02 19:23:19 RT @msolurin: There’s no reason people in criminal court should have to go to the vast majority of court appearances because absolutely not… 2021-06-02 17:55:29 Same. In secondary inspection for 5 hours with a baby. Missed our connecting flight. Asked about it: "you can catch another one" (brusquely). At another time, stuck in secondary, asked why I was in there, reply: "are you trying to tell us how to do immigration?" (angrily) https://t.co/yyk5mkQgF7 2021-06-02 17:53:46 @PayasR The cruelty is the point 2021-06-02 17:52:54 @zehlyi Even with alcohol at confs, people do go out and get dinner/drinks right? I don't think we can prevent that. I think this is more about making it safer for folks who chose to stay (and I think many will chose to stay). 2021-06-02 17:44:17 @zehlyi (as in, replace alcohol with non-alchoholic drinks while keeping the current networking opportunities that are co-located with the main conference) 2021-06-02 17:40:53 @zehlyi Yes, good point. I was imagining network opportunities with non-alcoholic drinks and food. 2021-06-02 17:24:07 Isn't it better to get rid of the abusers than the alcohol? Yes However, this is very complex, and abusers are often in positions of power, and reputation-maximizing universities will protect them. We should do both. 2021-06-02 17:23:02 Will removing alcohol make conferences less "fun" (for some definition of fun)? Yes I think we should still do it given the benefits to students. We can't be like "I will only make changes that cause no discomfort to me" 2021-06-02 17:21:55 One of the things this letter recommends is no alcohol at professional events. I strongly agree with this. Many predators use alcohol as an excuse for inappropriate behavior. Even otherwise, students report being anxious around folks who might get drunk. https://t.co/AMWPvbRLwB 2021-06-02 16:55:53 RT @eegilbert: Over 100 senior academics (tenure and up 2021-06-02 16:26:30 @TheOfficialACM Also imagine finding someone is a sexual abuser and saying "it would be a shame if you couldn't publish, well allow you to do that' https://t.co/5WXjZ1sV4N 2021-06-02 16:01:41 @JAldrichPL @justinesherry @helena_mentis Sorry, will address as Jonathan going forward :) 2021-06-02 15:59:34 @JAldrichPL @justinesherry @helena_mentis If ACM could just publicly say "we banned X from our conferences due to abusive behavior", we would get the same end result without all of this rigmarole. 2021-06-02 15:58:49 @JAldrichPL @justinesherry @helena_mentis Jon, are you in favor of this violations database? It seems super complex, and even reading the blog post, it was unclear who could access data about abusers. It seems almost destined to fail due to its complexity. 2021-06-02 15:57:50 Look at the details here: https://t.co/ov0twEURVQ. So complex! 2021-06-02 15:55:05 @TheOfficialACM ACM now has its super-fragile system of databases to reveal the names of abusers only on a "need-to-know" basis with all sorts of complicated procedures as to who can know. I'm pretty sure things will fall through the crack here. And IMO, it is the wrong thing to do. 2021-06-02 15:53:10 Strongly agree here. @TheOfficialACM bends over backwards to protect the reputation of its members, going to insane lengths. Imagine banning someone from ACM conferences but not informing their chair or dept? https://t.co/CCCO3eItVY 2021-06-01 19:19:24 RT @dmetaxak: When public outrage is the only vehicle for change, we face several major risks 2021-06-01 19:02:33 @nirajtolia Sure, but this is kind of orthogonal to what students should work in their PhD. I'm with you on recognizing what will be characterized as "research" vs "engineering" in a discipline like systems 2021-06-01 18:02:29 @scribblydo Please do share, I think students will find it very valuable! 2021-06-01 18:01:50 My advice, whenever a student wants to report against a prof, to first talk to someone *not* affiliated with the university who can help you judge the pros and cons of reporting. 2021-06-01 17:59:58 Captures my views perfectly. I think this extends to Title IX as well, which has a poor history of helping students at many universities. The underlying cause is the same: they work to maximize the reputation of the university. https://t.co/IcKHxeIMBc 2021-06-01 17:41:19 I think this captures it very nicely. A "reputation-maximizing" entity will knowingly hire someone famous who is known to be a abuser, because it's a net reputation win. That's why I'm skeptical of "we didn't know" stories: I think knowing w/o proof would result in same actions. https://t.co/DwFUZb9HV9 2021-06-01 17:37:50 @nirajtolia I would argue they should work on what they find interesting, rather than trying to optimize for such things (which are hard to predict) 2021-06-01 17:36:51 Strongly agree with this thread. What happened at Michigan was not an outlier, this is the norm at most universities. Every university has hired abusers, and will react to victims in a similar way to Michigan. https://t.co/BkXH4u8YA2 2021-06-01 17:12:16 @purelytangntl Yes, probably. And to be clear, I don't think the deal is that you get to do the same kind of work as phds full time when starting out. But you can probably work towards that position, and I think working as RSDE for example with research groups helps get your foot in the door 2021-06-01 17:03:31 I think this is a nice way of putting it, and profs need to do both! We should be actively out sponsoring our students (talking them/their work up, making connections for them, introducing them to folks etc) and also mentoring them and making sure they feel listened to 2021-06-01 17:02:06 RT @schemeprincess: @vj_chidambaram @barik The pay gap is not much if you account for 6 years of experience. At the places that I’ve worke… 2021-06-01 17:01:09 Jeff Mogul: Google differentiates between mentorship (chatting between two folks, mostly about listening and advice) and sponshorship (sponsor actively advocates for sponsered person) need both 2021-06-01 16:43:16 @barik Yes, I agree that would be great! 2021-06-01 16:39:20 @barik I bet the pay differential is better than between a Phd student and someone working in industry :) In other words, if you can work towards the job you want, you will definitely end up making more money 2021-06-01 16:35:58 At the jobs panel at #HotOS21, folks from Google, FB, Microsoft all say: - opportunities are not gated by whether or not you have a PhD - you can work on research-style problems with a Masters - Folks with PhDs tend to be more comfortable with ambiguity 2021-06-01 15:27:25 HotOS is off to a great start: we talked about getting rid of CPUs, and now we are talking about CPUs that disobey instructions! :O #HotOS21 2021-06-01 15:13:43 RT @mike_julian: Consulting 101: My top 10 lessons in getting paid to give advice. 2021-06-01 15:00:18 RT @johnregehr: HotOS is starting (virtually) now and check it out my cats are featured on the title slide https://t.co/UgtjVyNNeo ht… 2021-06-01 01:43:58 RT @bariskasikci: HotOS begins tomorrow (11AM EST)! We have 30 wonderful papers and 4 panels. Check out the program, papers, and talk video… 2021-06-01 00:48:07 RT @naralokesh: A fundraiser spearheaded by a group of Indian graduate students at @CarnegieMellon brought together 35 student organization… 2021-05-31 22:50:18 @cfiesler https://t.co/kxBdIXFJ74 2021-05-31 22:49:37 To be clear, UT just wanted some way of indicating quality of where I was publishing. They didn't specify to use CORE. 2021-05-31 22:48:34 @xwangsd The A* A stuff that CORE does 2021-05-31 22:47:58 @palvaro Am I the only person who used this data 2021-05-31 22:47:22 @0xabU @johnregehr Now not sure if I should have supplied some other data. Hopefully it won't matter either way! 2021-05-31 22:45:56 @0xabU @johnregehr We have to supply some data about how good the conferences we publish in are. I supplied google scholar and CORE data. 2021-05-31 22:24:41 https://t.co/JrTNZRCUE5 2021-05-31 22:21:44 @vaastav05 I don't know. I have never paid attention to them, and in fact didn't even know they existed until a few months before. But a bunch of folks I respect are upset, which means there must be some real affect somewhere.. 2021-05-31 22:18:07 I supplied CORE conference rankings as part of my tenure package, but I couldn't figure out who this is for. Presumably the higher ups need someone to tell them the candidate is publishing good work. Don't they get this from letters? The dept also places the work in context. 2021-05-31 21:17:33 RT @OdedRechavi: “So humbled” statements on Twitter https://t.co/yczOxFDDGE 2021-05-31 21:08:11 RT @DPeharris: Please share this upcoming workshop with your students! https://t.co/JwsskwhCgE 2021-05-31 20:17:53 RT @neurobongo: Hot take: almost no one in the scientific establishment is particularly unique or irreplaceable. Science doesn't advance ge… 2021-05-31 18:49:03 RT @nevslin: This needs to be on the front page of every newspaper…. https://t.co/a1Erq8zETN 2021-05-31 18:28:12 RT @justinesherry: Tenure and promotion committees: please stop letting a bunch of rando Australians determine where your faculty are allow… 2021-05-31 01:06:04 @ShriramKMurthi I've never been here, but it reminds me of bookstores and lending libraries in Chennai. Same spirit. Beautifully written. 2021-05-30 22:36:46 RT @HarmitMalik: A reminder: the scientific accomplishments of serial sexual harassers do not make up for the grievous injury caused to sci… 2021-05-30 21:48:56 @UMich @UMichCSE @bariskasikci @royaensafi @xwangsd I think it is possible to both fiercely criticize the management while supporting folks who are trying to do the good thing from inside. I have had zero doubt these folks were pushing for the right outcome from inside, and that they were over-ruled. 2021-05-30 21:46:15 I want to separate my criticism of @UMich and @UMichCSE management (who without a doubt messed up) from my support of folks like @bariskasikci, @royaensafi, @xwangsd and others who care deeply for their students, and are excellent advisors. 2021-05-30 20:56:54 RT @clegoues: Following up on Justine’s excellent thread with a small but concrete habit the Computer Gentlemen of Twitter can practice as… 2021-05-30 16:48:46 @varish It was a number of things. I wanted to broaden my research outlook I talk more about it here: https://t.co/HrSjj1WV4B 2021-05-30 16:29:57 @schemeprincess @PjdPeter Ya I don't feel like we have this norm, and the people doing the infractions were senior folks 2021-05-30 15:31:50 RT @schemeprincess: A pattern of ignoring harassment at Michigan. 2021-05-30 15:15:50 @adjiboussodieng @AcademicChatter I went to India to spend time with family :) but my answer is a bit complicated because I got a faculty job, deferred, did a post doc, and then joined. 2021-05-30 15:14:40 @tdietterich @adjiboussodieng @AcademicChatter I don't think everyone reading this thread will understand you are joking :) 2021-05-30 15:13:06 RT @NBedera: I’m not alone in this! A whole group of campus sexual violence researchers have come together to oppose mandatory reporting: h… 2021-05-30 05:24:57 RT @page_eco: Excellent: The visual effect of this perspective on juggling. https://t.co/iVBOvjganU 2021-05-30 03:37:04 RT @norootcause: New blog post, inspired by a question from @vj_chidambaram: https://t.co/vyOF1oZSYk 2021-05-30 00:07:55 RT @sebgehr: The WL case demonstrates so many things that are wrong with academia and my heart goes out to all of his victims. Unfortunatel… 2021-05-29 22:13:01 @ehsan_hoque I came across research recently that showed when people gave both positive and negative comments, their negative comments were much more likely to be taken seriously 2021-05-29 22:11:00 I'm not affiliated with the @michigandaily in any way, but if you want to celebrate and support the amazing work they have done, please donate here: https://t.co/hJcEiisAve https://t.co/HJO3syObyG 2021-05-29 21:50:30 We originally recorded this as part of my undergraduate Virtualization class last year. One of the few benefits of the pandemic is that everything is recorded! 2021-05-29 21:49:33 Here's a quick 15 min video where I answer some of the common questions about grad school (MS or PhD) in computer science. https://t.co/PEK1aRqXpq 2021-05-29 21:38:40 There are certain labs where i hesitate to send my students or give talks myself, because I know the speaker will be subject to endless interruptions. 2021-05-29 21:37:57 @schemeprincess I remember when I was a grad student seeing an SOSP talk where they harass the speaker, and being so nervous for my own SOSP talk 2021-05-29 21:37:26 So one of the things with harassment and abuse is that it is not as blatant. In some groups, it is a badge of honor to rip apart ideas, and to be subjected to that yourself. While it certainly helps to learn how to take criticism, it is a thin line to outright harassment. 2021-05-29 21:34:14 @bariskasikci @schemeprincess So sorry you went through this, Irene. Your session chair interrupted you during your talk?! This is so bizzare! 2021-05-29 21:33:41 In case people were thinking harassment doesn't happen in systems. https://t.co/wU8z9Yhi2w 2021-05-29 21:03:33 @bakirtzisg @UMichCSE Welcome to Austin! Who will you be working with? 2021-05-29 20:31:29 The remaining battle has to be fought by the good folks inside @UMichCSE: hopefully the public outcry has given them enough ammunition to continue. 2021-05-29 20:30:45 The problem with public outcry is that it's more or less a one shot thing. There are remaining problems at @UMichCSE: Jason Mars is still teaching and there are other allegations: https://t.co/LLhvNv8Xts 2021-05-29 20:27:47 Big kudos to @michigandaily. They helped the case get attention, and were brave enough to report things plainly and name WL. If not for them, ACM and Michigan mgmt would both have happily let WL abuse more students. https://t.co/HJO3syObyG 2021-05-29 17:41:07 RT @Back_dafucup: In Denmark, there are libraries where you can ′′ borrow ′′ a person instead of a book to listen to their life story for 3… 2021-05-29 16:36:03 RT @ShriramKMurthi: To me what is important is (a) a culture of telling students they have agency, and (b) having mechanisms to support stu… 2021-05-29 02:12:45 RT @brendangregg: new post: Moving my US tech job to Australia https://t.co/DVeluzdsuh https://t.co/LC3mg7Crv2 2021-05-29 00:41:29 RT @UTCompSci: CNS selected < 2021-05-28 23:58:55 RT @naz_andalibi: I would still like to see what the CSE leadership, OIE, and other powerful actors have to say. I fear that this will not… 2021-05-28 23:32:29 RT @neurocy: My heart hurts for the women harmed by the actions of Walter Lasecki and Jason Mars, both faculty in my department @UMichCSE.… 2021-05-28 23:09:07 RT @cellocorgi: Update on the UMich situation https://t.co/dUxr1AGI1V 2021-05-28 22:53:44 @umbernhard @UMichCSE I'm really sorry this happened to you. Thank you for speaking up! 2021-05-28 22:27:15 I actually agree with this for systems conferences as well. Sometimes you have totally rewritten a paper since the last submission, but you have still have to go into review with this negative prior impression. https://t.co/EJwPCzcIpJ 2021-05-28 22:09:44 RT @j_gottschlich: @vj_chidambaram @mark_riedl I'm launching a new multimillion $$ research center in 2022. @UMichCSE need not apply. As th… 2021-05-28 21:41:58 @realhamed @georgemporter @PatPannuto I was reading the PDF, and I already like how much more structured and regulated things are at Imperial. By contrast, American academia feels more like the wild west. 2021-05-28 21:35:55 @realhamed @georgemporter @PatPannuto Thanks! Sorry for all the questions, I was wondering if and how we could do something similar here. 2021-05-28 21:35:18 RT @schemeprincess: Everyone that has spoken out about the students at Michigan, the students have given permission for the rest of the CS… 2021-05-28 21:25:07 @realhamed @georgemporter @PatPannuto Thats great. Does the student pick this advisor or does the dept/college assign them one, after the primary advisor has been picked? 2021-05-28 21:18:18 @realhamed @georgemporter @PatPannuto Thats great! Do you run into problems with mandatory co-supervising where you are unable to find co-supervisors? 2021-05-28 21:17:15 More revelations by students about faculty at @UMichCSE. This is about alleged abuse of power by a different faculty member (not WL). The students speaking up are incredibly brave. I think this was lost in all the furor about WL. https://t.co/edPwC0B6O9 2021-05-28 21:10:20 RT @umbernhard: I was supposed to be a faculty candidate. That's not just my opinion, I had already received a few offers. But my advisor s… 2021-05-28 21:06:29 @georgemporter I'm seriously impressed @georgemporter and @PatPannuto that this passed and was implemented so quickly. Speaks to a great dept culture and higher-ups who are willing to listen (and actually allocate money)! 2021-05-28 20:15:17 RT @niloufar_s: This is so important. Men (primarily), no one is asking you to be a knight in shining armer. No one is asking you to save u… 2021-05-28 20:08:56 @joyokim Thank you for speaking up! I'll definitely be on the lookout for inappropriate behavior the next time I'm at a conference. 2021-05-28 20:01:17 RT @joyokim: I wanted someone to show me that they had their guard up for me too. So, that's my ask, I guess. Learn what to look for. Kee… 2021-05-28 20:01:05 RT @joyokim: I want to share my (relatively mild) experience interacting with WL at conferences because it let to some thoughts about being… 2021-05-28 19:53:00 RT @dmetaxak: 4. Finally, consider these invisible burdens in evaluations, admissions, hiring. Underrepresented people are systematically… 2021-05-28 19:52:33 RT @dmetaxak: 3. Be vocal 2021-05-28 19:49:41 RT @syardi: My strong desire is for communities to work together to combat sexual harassment. We need common ground to do that which has be… 2021-05-28 19:42:59 RT @dmetaxak: Since 2016, I have been so careful, so patient, so diligent about the process, but @UMichCSE's statement yesterday—so inadequ… 2021-05-28 19:26:19 @mark_riedl I thought he was doing it in his personal capacity, not as Intel lab director? If so, it's bigger than I thought! 2021-05-28 19:25:15 RT @adarel: It makes me immeasurably sad that Intel ML Labs is right to do this to Michigan's CSE dept. There's no excuse, and it's clear t… 2021-05-28 19:02:41 @srivoire Yes, I don't think we should place this burden on the student. Maybe the student should find their primary advisor and the dept helps them find a secondary advisor (with an eye towards things like abuse, etc) 2021-05-28 18:59:28 RT @docmilanfar: Learning Persian roots of some words in English: (most go all the back to Sanskrit of course) Part 1/3 Candy ← Persian… 2021-05-28 18:57:36 @srivoire Thats true. But I guess both co-advisors don't need to be in the same field, just broadly adjacent ones. This could lead to increased collaboration. But you are right we need two non-shitty advisors. 2021-05-28 18:49:35 Apart from the proposal for transition funding, another thing that caught my eye was mandatory co-advising. Predators can't flirt or be creepy if there is another prof in the room at all times. This has the potential to solve a lot of problems, and maybe increase collaboration. https://t.co/e41QCpB9uJ 2021-05-28 18:44:43 Kudos @PatPannuto! This is a great example of concrete positive action: UCSD commits to giving one quarter of funding to students who are transitioning from a bad situation with their advisor. https://t.co/gsd5C5mHUm 2021-05-28 17:36:06 RT @polina_giralt: "We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." – Ellen Ullm… 2021-05-28 16:58:41 @juansequeda Yeah. I don't blame them though. It is what the current system incentivizes. Blame the system, not the players! 2021-05-28 16:56:32 @juansequeda I think he was joking :) He shares the same view as you do. 2021-05-28 16:50:12 RT @le_roux_nicolas: From my (albeit limited) experience, the price you end up paying if you speak about this from a position of power is n… 2021-05-28 15:19:28 RT @abby4thepeople: cafe workers: "we are unionizing" owner: "lol then I'm selling the cafe" cafe workers: proceed to buy the cafe and turn… 2021-05-28 14:51:12 @ShriramKMurthi @landay Yeah, seems to vary from school to school. I'm not a fan of mandatory reporting, so I would prefer a policy like Brown's. 2021-05-28 14:44:00 @ShriramKMurthi @landay All employees at UT, including teaching and research assistants 2021-05-28 14:43:25 RT @ShriramKMurthi: This is important. For many years I had a position that REQUIIRED me to report Title IX violations. I warned my student… 2021-05-28 14:34:14 This is really important. Universities listen to their alumni and depend on them for donations. So if alumni are saying they won't donate, universities will pay a lot of attention. https://t.co/6S1x6Jkc4r 2021-05-28 13:38:54 @0xabU @danrkports @johnregehr @barik I care what you think, and so do plenty of students who see what we say when something like this unfolds. It is important to show support. Imagine if nobody publicly said anything! I think every univ and every company has abusers, so I don't think it would come across that way. 2021-05-28 13:31:49 Not only should WL be fired, he should likely go go prison. This is repeated sexual assault. @umich is essentially sitting on proof of sexual assault and not doing anything about it. I don't know how this is legal. 2021-05-28 13:28:27 When you have a report that says stuff like this, the conclusion of the report doesn't really matter. Anybody decent would see the concerns and move to protect students. It is inconceivable to think the behavior in the report is okay. 2021-05-28 13:26:46 Imagine saying "we would like the respondent to stop touching people without their express permission" ?!! Apparently it was not "pedagogically necessary" ?! And this is the behavior the @UMichCSE chair wants to defend? 2021-05-28 13:24:57 So, @UMich agrees WL was touching students without their permission, but didn't think it violates their policy?!? Hey @umich: touching people without their permission is sexual assault. It's ILLEGAL. You had proof of illegal crimes and it didn't violate your policy? https://t.co/nwWyv1si0x 2021-05-28 01:47:44 RT @niloufar_s: I'm at a loss for words, all I can say is that people don't prey, bully, harass, unless they know they're backed up by the… 2021-05-28 01:31:41 @grimalkina You are only saying what a lot of us are feeling. I would be more surprised if anybody would actually recommend students join that dept in the near future. 2021-05-28 01:26:02 RT @harmankkaur: Are you suggesting that the previous allegations weren't serious and urgent concerns? You condemn harassment, and yet 2… 2021-05-28 01:06:05 RT @kph3k: My 6-year-old, working on a bead design: “Do you want to help me?” My 8-year-old: “Yes. Do you want me to follow your directio… 2021-05-28 01:05:14 WL needs to go, but it's rapidly becoming clear he's not the only one https://t.co/0Ww9AoevGH 2021-05-28 00:36:18 RT @erinleebrady: In May 2020 I submitted a statement about Walter Lasecki’s pattern of inappropriate behavior towards women, which I obser… 2021-05-28 00:04:31 @slpsk I think this can totally work, if the student knows what problems to work on. But one of the things you learn during a PhD is how to pick problems, so I dont think we should expect students to have this coming in. 2021-05-27 23:02:11 @syardi Same in Texas. All employees have to report. https://t.co/hAmTFkLZb9 This includes TAs and RAs too :( 2021-05-27 22:41:50 We should aim to get to the point where a student feels empowered (knowing the community has her back) to say to an abusive prof: "is yours the only lab? Are you the only prof?" 2021-05-27 22:15:34 RT @azeen: BREAKING from me and @dvergano: Astronomer Geoff Marcy has become the first scientist to be expelled from the prestigious Nati… 2021-05-27 21:50:38 This is very old poetry, but oddly struck a note with me today as we learn of folks who abuse others with the threat of impeding their career. 850 years ago, a poet to a king who belittled him: "Are you the only ruler? Is yours the only country?" https://t.co/mhZ92GlqnJ 2021-05-27 19:50:46 RT @_alialkhatib: universities are generally awful at supporting survivors, but if @UMichCSE grants walter tenure, i don't know how i can t… 2021-05-27 19:47:54 RT @Shreyagupta08: In my junior year of undergrad, I worked with a reputed professor from a very esteemed university of India. There would… 2021-05-27 15:33:08 RT @linguangst: so many fucking people knew about this shit. AAAI didn't act. ACM didn't act sooner. advisors didn't act. and @umich decide… 2021-05-27 15:00:15 RT @syardi: This is horrendous. WL assaulted @genevievemp in 2016. She reported it in 2017 then gave him the benefit of the doubt. He conti… 2021-05-27 02:45:29 RT @preetiramaraj: *Thread* @UmichCSE has failed me as a student. I want to first amplify this article about one of the survivor's thoughts… 2021-05-26 21:51:59 RT @AstroKatie: If you’re an organization asking an academic researcher to do something for you (speak, write, lead a workshop, etc) that i… 2021-05-26 21:44:51 Without this kind of work, we would not have a community worth publishing in. And if your model of academia is one where we keep publishing papers for each other to read as victims struggle and leave, I don't want any part of that. 2021-05-26 21:43:28 I'm pretty sure the folks doing this don't want to be doing it, that they would rather focus on research and publications, the things academia cares about. But I hope they get credit, and I hope some jerk somewhere doesn't say "but it's not technical work". 2021-05-26 21:42:08 Folks like WL don't get stopped for free. And right now the cost is coming from the same folks who endured abuse. And what do they get in return for all this?! 2021-05-26 21:40:42 A poignant thread from @grimalkina. She gave up her career in psych to stop an abuser. The people like @linguangst fighting WL and other sexual abusers, it's not what they want to be doing. It's sad to me that their vital contributions will be brushed aside as "not technical". https://t.co/Ydeas5q9sF 2021-05-26 21:37:05 RT @grimalkina: Please, take care of survivors first. Don't center abusers. Kind people trying hard, I regret to say most of you do not eve… 2021-05-26 21:22:48 good job @usenix https://t.co/2i5lmrM5XD 2021-05-26 17:56:25 @vardi Congratulations! 2021-05-26 16:21:18 @bariskasikci When getting coffee: "it is like VJ as in video jockey" 2021-05-26 15:33:24 At this point I don't really mind it though, I just sigh and start the phonetic spelling quickly :) and at the end there is a usually a joke :) 2021-05-26 15:32:23 Relate to this so much! I hate it when they ask me to spell my full name. Inevitable comments: - wow that's a long name - what do you mean that's only the first name - can you pronounce it for me I got really good at the phonetic alphabet though! "V for victor, I for India.." https://t.co/L1NAebm46o 2021-05-26 03:50:39 RT @bennytheshap: My first year as a faculty member a student told me about uncomfortable experience with another faculty member who someti… 2021-05-26 00:40:33 RT @maria_antoniak: This is a good overview thread and worth reading. Title IX is a travesty. This is not unique to UMich. If seeking help… 2021-05-25 23:15:03 RT @sangeetha_a_j: When someone reports sexual harassment, what follows is bureaucratic harassment. I am not aware of *any* institution or… 2021-05-25 23:11:19 @airbornemihir @WisconsinCS @UTCompSci I noticed that :) It was very sweet! 2021-05-25 22:58:56 Fully agree! The staff at both @WisconsinCS and @UTCompSci are so awesome :) https://t.co/EVzOY67OE8 2021-05-25 22:55:24 This response is very cringey. The tone is "okay okay well build trust if we have to". The focus is clearly on allowing people to "express themselves" and then a secondary focus is on trust. https://t.co/cIO9ufBnZj 2021-05-25 21:44:05 RT @avanhatt: when an "Office of Institutional Equity (OIE)" is putting something like this into writing, it really highlights how much of… 2021-05-25 20:53:11 @ppadala @UMichCSE @UMich @michigandaily Michigan has a very broken Office of Institutional Equity that ruled that he did nothing wrong. His tenure decision might be tied to that. Officially, he has been proven innocent. 2021-05-25 20:50:05 RT @thmichailidis: @tianyin_xu This is not just one bad example, and not just in UMich. There have been many incidents like that, and will… 2021-05-25 19:05:49 This thread is sad and devastating. I can't imagine spending 18 months to finally learn your abuser is exonerated and will likely earn tenure as well. What a terrible process, and what terrible management from @UMichCSE and @UMich. Shame on them. Kudos for @michigandaily. https://t.co/ZoFX1Xm2E9 2021-05-25 18:51:07 RT @linguangst: if you're following the sexual misconduct allegations against @umichCSE professor walter lasecki, you may be under the impr… 2021-05-25 17:24:34 @TaliaRinger Those biases exist anyway though, it's not like faculty recruiting is double blind. 2021-05-25 17:07:32 @barik Just sharing the joy 2021-05-25 16:52:56 Big picture, we should *not* be artificially restricting the number of papers in conferences so that (check notes) faculty recruiting committees can have an easier time evaluating candidates. 2021-05-25 16:48:22 So this would be a problem when a dept wants to hire in an area they don't have expertise in. But such a dept would struggle to meaningfully evaluate the candidate anyway. They would fall back on the letters, which they can do irrespective of the number of accepted papers. 2021-05-25 16:46:55 Usually, when the dept is hiring in an area where there are already faculty, the chances are high that those faculty members have already read some of the work of the candidates they are interviewing. Many candidates are already on their radar even before they apply. 2021-05-25 16:45:22 2) Second, and I think importantly, recruiting committees cannot use just blind paper acceptances as the bar for interviewing a candidate. But I think good depts already read the work of a candidate before inviting them for an interview. 2021-05-25 16:45:03 RT @barik: @vj_chidambaram The article concedes that the review process is random, but instead of addressing the actual problem, focuses on… 2021-05-25 16:44:03 What would be the negative outcomes of this? 1) Folks can't use what is accepted by a conf as their reading list. They would actually have to inspect the papers to see what to read (the horror!) 2021-05-25 16:43:03 Studies in various communities have shown that if we accept more papers (basically everything except those unanimously rejected), randomness in the review process decreases. 2021-05-25 16:41:37 In an ideal world, if you do good work, your paper would be accepted. Over time, your chances of acceptance should monotonically go up, as you address reviewer concerns. But the world we live in right now is where random factors affect acceptance quite a bit. 2021-05-25 16:40:19 As the article details, with an acceptance rate of 12-20%, random chance affects acceptance much more than the contents of the paper. Given how important acceptances are to academia, is it any wonder that authors under stress resort to cheating? 2021-05-25 16:39:01 I'm convinced the best way to combat collusion rings to just accept more papers. If acceptance itself doesn't mean much, but the *contents* of the paper are what matters, such cheating naturally becomes ineffective. https://t.co/qrfg56AeDZ 2021-05-25 16:36:37 RT @linguangst: even now, with 22 people having come forward—some who endured multiple instances of misconduct—CSE is silent. where are you… 2021-05-25 16:36:33 RT @linguangst: U-M told jane she "remembered too many details" to have been as incapacitated as she claimed. unbelievable amounts of gas… 2021-05-25 15:08:53 @IsilDillig @alexandra8silva @amoellercsaudk @cindy_rubio @sukyoungryu congrats! This is a great group of people! 2021-05-25 14:45:24 RT @aruna__b: WPhD celebrations!!! The first largish gathering we hosted in our backyard since last March was to celebrate two WPhDs gradua… 2021-05-25 14:30:59 RT @asbruckman: My department is hoping to start a master's scholarship aimed at people from under-represented groups and first-gen college… 2021-05-24 21:07:25 @AkshithaSriram1 Sorry *not really well connected 2021-05-24 20:32:02 RT @CasualLaw: And the biggest barrier to improvement here is people believing that they can be fair. Sometimes understanding you do not h… 2021-05-24 19:27:46 @AkshithaSriram1 @mynkgoel @UMichCSE This is great, thank you! I think faculty can include such questions too in their interviews! 2021-05-24 19:20:48 Good tips about how to use an interview session with students to learn more about a faculty candidate's character. https://t.co/smo29qxAiv 2021-05-24 19:13:56 @AkshithaSriram1 True. Sometimes a dept tries to hire in a new area and is really well connected to all this. 2021-05-24 18:59:41 @AkshithaSriram1 @mynkgoel What questions do you think are most helpful? 2021-05-24 18:58:42 @AkshithaSriram1 I think depts already know the "open secrets" though. It's a question of when they are able to act on them. 2021-05-24 18:48:15 RT @erinleebrady: @roydanroy @lynndombrowski @linguangst @rmgulotta Academia isn’t set up to protect survivors. This case makes that painfu… 2021-05-24 18:44:16 RT @EvanMPeck: I appreciate all the work that people like @linguangst have been doing to amplify the voices of women who have already been… 2021-05-24 18:38:27 @alexandra8silva @johnregehr @mynkgoel Yeah, I think they still haven't made a decision about tenure for WL. Lets hope they are still able to vote to fire him. But the union at Michigan and OIE saying nothing is wrong makes things complicated. 2021-05-24 18:31:36 RT @linguangst: the first and hardest step in discouraging abuse of any kind is acknowledging your own complicity in the institutions and c… 2021-05-24 18:31:12 RT @linguangst: show us we can trust you by openly discussing abuse. it's a reality of life 2021-05-24 18:28:49 @johnregehr @mynkgoel Yeah. I think the earlier the faculty know of something like this, the better. Rejecting a faculty candidate much easier than terminating a tenured faculty member. 2021-05-24 18:28:17 @johnregehr @mynkgoel This is usually the case for people with reputations right? You have heard stories, but perhaps not from the victims directly. 2021-05-24 18:27:14 @johnregehr @mynkgoel "credible" is really the catch here. I absolutely agree they would do it if they have first-hand info or from someone they trust. But often the info is second or third hand and then I don't know what happens if and when they bring it up. 2021-05-24 18:19:44 @snchancellor @mynkgoel Agreed. A declined letter could be for various reasons though, such as inter-personal conflict, etc. If a candidate had a falling out with their advisor, thats very different from the advisor not writing a letter due to concerns like these. 2021-05-24 18:16:24 I've seen universities hire famous folks whose reputation is an "open secret". So its not so much that the universities/departments don't know. They may know and not care, but they may also not have a process for using such second-hand info in making decisions. 2021-05-24 18:12:28 @mynkgoel I think depending on letters for this is useless. I've served for two years on the faculty recruiting committee and I've never seen any letters talk about stuff like this. I don't think letter writers will do this (I think they will just decline to write the letter). 2021-05-24 18:11:11 I think this and a similar comment from @mynkgoel get to the heart of the issue: what is the process for a dept to know about/respond to rumors about the character of a candidate? If a faculty member has first-hand experience, I'm sure they will bring it up. Second hand info? https://t.co/MhnrAWdI14 2021-05-24 14:54:00 RT @linguangst: it's 11pm and i've spent my entire weekend talking about one man's sexual misconduct. i've been taking tons of personal day… 2021-05-24 14:38:08 @theamazingabby @UTAustin Congratulations Abby! 2021-05-24 14:37:07 RT @linguangst: by now most of you are aware of the severe sexual misconduct allegations again dr. walter lasecki, a soon-to-be-tenured sta… 2021-05-24 14:35:50 The current model only works for some profs across the world who are flush with grants. What about all the others? Should they just stop doing research? 2021-05-24 14:34:32 This is one of the big reasons we started @jsysresearch. Science should not be held back by whether you have money to publish (many in India and other developing countries don't). https://t.co/35scu9mN5T 2021-05-23 18:52:35 RT @OdedRechavi: For a PhD student, choosing a good lab is 10 times more important than choosing a particular topic to study 2021-05-23 17:11:05 https://t.co/5cce1YzsKb 2021-05-23 17:07:07 This is completely understandable: if your livelihood depends on a company/organization, you want to ensure that it has money, that it is protected from lawsuits, etc. However, sometimes decisions to protect ACM are the opposite of decisions to protect the community. 2021-05-23 17:05:13 So this makes it clear what the problem is: when ACM makes decisions that members and officials don't agree with, it is because the decisions represent what the full-time staff (for whom this is their livelihood) are thinking. 2021-05-23 17:04:01 @vardi @CACMmag @arvindsatya1 has pointed to the same problem in an earlier tweet: https://t.co/LnbzDdQa66 2021-05-23 17:02:28 @vardi has captured the essence of the problem nicely in a @CACMmag article: that there are full-time ACM staff and elected ACM officials, and the two groups don't always see eye-on-eye on all issues. https://t.co/rYnAWns5fr https://t.co/hKwAucPpN6 2021-05-23 16:55:16 @vardi Thank you for writing this! You have described the root of the problem nicely. I agree that an examination of ACM's structure is crucial at this point. 2021-05-23 07:55:43 RT @bariskasikci: We (Michigan CSE) have a lot of reflection, fixing, and healing to do. The onslaught of these events has been draining fo… 2021-05-23 02:03:53 RT @iancassel: Winston Churchill was born in 1874 when there was no electricity. No radio. No Television. No Telephones. There were no ligh… 2021-05-23 01:49:41 RT @UTAustin: "My advice to all of you as you embark on that adventure: be bold. Don’t be in the business of playing it safe. Be in the bus… 2021-05-23 01:49:34 RT @UTAustin: "I promise, you won’t regret a minute you spend with the people you love," @RobertIger tells #UTGrad21 https://t.co/AhTHgh6zv9 2021-05-23 01:49:26 RT @UTAustin: "Your possibilities are enormous. My advice — be optimistic. Be confident and have faith in yourself and your abilities. Beli… 2021-05-23 00:05:30 RT @__apf__: an underrated aspect of having a PhD is that it unlocks a lot of naming options if you decide to pursue a career as a supervil… 2021-05-23 00:01:58 RT @syardi: re: Walter Lasecki and folks saying they didn’t know, or that it wouldn’t have happened to them or their institution. First, ma… 2021-05-22 21:20:39 @RashmiKVinayak @saurabhkadekodi Congratulations @saurabhkadekodi! 2021-05-22 21:01:25 RT @Teri_Kanefield: Unfortunately, this is true -- and the reason there are no quick fixes or quick solutions. If those of us who want a t… 2021-05-22 19:34:45 These are all valid concerns. One path forward is for a group of folks to come together and start a new journal based on these shared values. Over time, prestige will come. https://t.co/f870B8WimX 2021-05-22 19:13:18 RT @BreenOuellette: I was informed today that social workers in BC have forced Indigenous children under the age of 10 to have IUDs inserte… 2021-05-22 18:26:58 @BrandonBloom Good question. I think it's two things: size and who the leadership is. Acm tries to do a lot of stuff, and hence is so big as to lose efficiency. Second, the decisions seems to be made by folks who want to protect ACM (for example, against lawsuits). Better leadership will help. 2021-05-22 18:19:19 @EpistemeHealth @tdietterich @ldklinux @jsysresearch @JOSS_TheOJ @freejournalnet Thank you! Good luck to you too :) 2021-05-22 16:37:25 RT @linguangst: sorry, but no. plenty of senior faculty were told of and even witnessed multiple incidents of inappropriate behavior over t… 2021-05-22 14:59:53 @tdietterich @ldklinux @jsysresearch The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) has been following a similar model for 20 years! It's very much possible. 2021-05-22 14:59:23 @tdietterich @ldklinux We have launched the @jsysresearch diamond open access journal to demonstrate you can run a high quality journal without charging exorbitant fees. No cost to readers or authors! 2021-05-22 14:18:26 @clegoues @UMichCSE Agreed. It's more the attitude I think, rather than the concrete actions taken (which I agree would be different). It's all the more puzzling because they are so many good folks at the dept, who must be getting overruled. 2021-05-22 14:12:08 RT @indygupta: @vj_chidambaram @UTCompSci I recall many years ago we had a student couple at UIUC (both Phd students) with a baby, and they… 2021-05-22 13:53:31 RT @rmalharb: It’s extremely upsetting to learn that it this person’s predatory behavior has been well-known since graduate school and that… 2021-05-22 13:51:14 @roydanroy @michigandaily @UMichCSE https://t.co/UVzKkZQlIT 2021-05-22 04:27:41 - given that @UMichCSE has decided not to protect it's students from abusive faculty, I hope this information gets to students, especially international students, applying next year for grad school. International students are at such a disadvantage in cases like these. 2021-05-22 04:24:11 - UMich School of Information behaved in an exemplary way to protect their students! It's what you would expect a dept that actually cared about their students to do - the parallel between SI and CSE is striking, underscoring the deep deep problems at @UMichCSE 2021-05-22 04:18:07 The second part of the @michigandaily investigation into @UMichCSE: - current chair villainized students who came forward - Jason Mars still teaching at CSE, apparently Lasecki will also return (!!!) - apparently Lasecki problems known by U Rochester, which did nothing https://t.co/0bQFwI7glg 2021-05-22 03:54:10 @mark_riedl Renders nicely on a phone! All that installation worth it 2021-05-22 02:32:03 RT @joe_hellerstein: Culler, in addition to being a top researcher, was the mastermind behind some of the biggest institutional computing w… 2021-05-22 02:23:08 Sangeetha's courage is inspiring. It is sad that a woman has to take such measures in today's world. But it is inspiring how Sangeetha takes it head-on, and I am amazed at how well-informed she is about all the local laws! https://t.co/5w76ojkf1M 2021-05-21 20:39:29 Congratulations to all the @UTCompSci students graduating with their PhD today, including Prof @siobhcroo, @chaoyuaw, and Yige Hu (the first student I worked with and co-advised at @UTCompSci)! https://t.co/Q1rQN8jrxk 2021-05-21 20:29:49 @DavidMohaisen @UTCompSci Agreed. Male, but it's still quite a feat :) 2021-05-21 19:58:19 RT @statesman: Hats off to you, @UTAustin class of 2021 https://t.co/2pnmfEpW9J https://t.co/AqpeZj2Ohq 2021-05-21 19:49:14 RT @thegautamkamath: A playlist of 30 lectures on mathematical writing by Donald Knuth (and guests). From 1987, but good writing is timeles… 2021-05-21 19:29:02 I'm attending the virtual PhD graduation ceremony at @UTCompSci and we just had a student graduate after doing an excellent PhD and go on to a post-doc while parenting *three* young kids! Our students are amazing! :) 2021-05-21 16:44:04 @palvaro Congratulations! 2021-05-21 14:54:56 RT @pramod_bhatotia: This is disappointing: they are dismantling a world-class team and impeding the progress of seL4. AI advancements are… 2021-05-21 14:53:35 RT @sangeetha_a_j: 1/ This behavior is completely unacceptable! On a related note, when making a complaint, please be aware of your rights… 2021-05-21 14:28:47 RT @sannasideup: it's also super uncomfortable to tell a professor you don't drink, especially when there's this awkward (but polite) other… 2021-05-21 14:27:37 RT @kimballscott: My son at the dinner table tonight: "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people." 2021-05-21 03:34:52 RT @GernotHeiser: Word is out, and unfortunately true: @CSIRO's @Data61news dismantles Trustworthy Systems (TS), the team that shook the sc… 2021-05-21 02:59:06 RT @mollycrabapple: I just donated to help rebuild the Samir Mansour book store in Gaza, which was destroyed by Israeli bombs. The booksto… 2021-05-20 23:59:30 RT @clegoues: Despite this, most authors write them. Reviewers are then correctly encouraged to revisit/update reviews. B/w that and the (s… 2021-05-20 23:42:41 ACM COPE to Sangeetha: "victims can publicly name their harasser" ACM COPE to Michigan students: "Please honor our policy in keeping the prof's name private" https://t.co/ammMXdZ8rU 2021-05-20 23:40:13 @sangeetha_a_j Ah, I didnt realize that since the acronym wasn't used anywhere 2021-05-20 23:39:28 @sangeetha_a_j wow, the same people? I didn't expect that. 2021-05-20 23:36:11 @sangeetha_a_j cc @michigandaily its turns out ACM should not have asked victims to not name their prof, even under their own policy 2021-05-20 23:35:10 @sangeetha_a_j This was from the Committee on Professional Ethics. I guess one committee doesn't know what the other committee is saying? This is a great example of the bureaucracy I hate in ACM 2021-05-20 21:42:58 RT @amoralorealis: Let me tell you a story about social housing. I was born in Japan. Even after my family moved to Canada, my mother wou… 2021-05-20 20:46:35 RT @linguangst: i never drank as much as i did during grad school. conference receptions, job candidate dinners, post-deadline celebrations… 2021-05-20 20:12:08 RT @schemeprincess: Is it any wonder that there are no women in CS? Does anyone want to deal with sexism AND sexual harassment at work?! An… 2021-05-20 19:05:35 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 https://t.co/BcFWCKmxCJ "The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services." 2021-05-20 18:06:28 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen @arvindsatya1 @michigandaily Will check it out! And yes, I agree a lot of effort has to go into it! 2021-05-20 18:05:02 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 I guess my big frustration with the ACM is that it often acts as rule following robot, instead of being formed of human beings with empathy and judgement who can handle nuance. 2021-05-20 18:03:39 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 The ORI reveals names of convicted offenders once the case is resolved 2021-05-20 18:02:58 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 And it's a serious answer. "We reveal the offender if we judge that there is serious and continuing harm to the community from keeping their name private". Both cases fit this. 2021-05-20 18:01:47 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 And to be clear, I'm not saying that ACM folks have bad intentions. But despite good intentions, I don't think the ACM is effective at representing the computing community currently. 2021-05-20 18:00:22 @JAldrichPL @arvindsatya1 I would suggest drawing the line at suicide and repeated sexual harassment :(. This really isn't a hard problem if ACM wants to act. 2021-05-20 17:59:09 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen @arvindsatya1 @michigandaily Well, historically the USA has been a state where only white men could vote, and it has evolved to the point it has today. So change is possible! 2021-05-20 17:57:25 @georgemporter @stummm Yes, I do agree it would have to be expanded to do that 2021-05-20 17:45:50 @stummm I would love for that to happen :) I'm a big fan of USENIX 2021-05-20 17:45:17 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen @arvindsatya1 @michigandaily My understanding is that the scope of ORI is narrow, and CS research doesn't really fall into it. But we need something like that governing all academic behavior. 2021-05-20 17:43:59 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen @arvindsatya1 @michigandaily Yup, the need for an independent judiciary is vital! There actually is such a body for NSF or other government funded research projects: https://t.co/qPfCuxT8Gq 2021-05-20 17:27:02 @dave_andersen @TweetAtAKK @arvindsatya1 @michigandaily Yes, I know it's not your position :) I'm just saying we shouldn't allow the ACM to get away with this excuse. 2021-05-20 17:24:53 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen @arvindsatya1 I understand the rationalization but I don't buy it. The @michigandaily is a small, *student-run* newspaper that had no problem naming the prof. We should expect our instituions to have as much backbone and courage. 2021-05-20 17:02:30 @schemeprincess @HilaCodes I like the MIT papers from Nickolai and Frans a lot for this aspect. Very thorough evaluations. 2021-05-20 16:41:15 RT @markkimmulgrew: I quit ACM in 2019 because ACM opposed free dissemination of federally-funded research. There needs to be a new org. 2021-05-20 16:27:44 RT @TweetAtAKK: Yeah, I too have been increasingly troubled by ACM’s bizarre ways in just the last year. But I am uncertain if this is be… 2021-05-20 16:24:48 Almost everyone you talk to will agree this is bad. If you talk to ACM folks, they will mumble something about rules, committees and how ACM has always done it this way. There is almost zero chance ACM will change on this aspect. 2021-05-20 16:23:37 For example, consider the recent Michigan case where the name of the prof was not revealed. This hurts current students, who will associate with the prof without knowing he routinely harasses students. 2021-05-20 16:21:20 There is a case to be made for joining ACM and "reforming" it from the inside. And many excellent people I know are doing this. But with all due respect, I think the ACM is too big and too bloated for change at this point, and a better use of our time might be on something new. 2021-05-20 16:18:52 The usual refrain I get whenever I criticize ACM is that "its made up of folks like us". But again, nobody I know would take the decisions ACM does. I think ACM represents mostly itself at this point. 2021-05-20 16:17:37 On several issues, ranging from open access to the Turing award to the Florida suicide to the Michigan sexual harassment, I don't feel like ACM represents me at all. Nobody I know would take the actions ACM took in these cases. Who is it representing? 2021-05-20 16:16:13 For example, the ACM Digital Library is a picture of incompetence (try and get a bib entry from the DL), with free services like DBLP and Arxiv being much more better. 2021-05-20 16:15:23 The current ACM has plenty of good intentions, but is so incompetent and bureaucratic that it is extremely ineffective in a variety of situations. Any concerns you bring up will take days for a reply (if at all). 2021-05-20 16:13:03 I think there is strong demand for a new computing organization to replace ACM that does the following: - Has open access as a core principle - Is truly international, with both representation and decisions reflecting this - Is centered around students - Is agile and responsive 2021-05-20 15:52:23 RT @arvindsatya1: Yes, I have trouble understanding how it is in the "public safety" to keep the identities of perpetrators anonymous after… 2021-05-20 15:52:13 @arvindsatya1 It is not. It is all about protecting the reputation of professors in ACM, no matter if they harass women or drive students to suicide. 2021-05-20 14:29:09 This was the case with case from Florida where the student committed suicide as well. Similar bans, but nothing public. Simply a statement that ACM has published some unknown people. 2021-05-20 14:27:59 Michigan's behavior has been so bad here that it paints ACM in a good light, but do remember that ACM did not reveal who the prof was, and asked victims not to reveal. So that ACM can just stand on the side and watch him harass more women. Pathetic. https://t.co/urvIJw222A 2021-05-20 14:12:59 @balakc It is not widely accepted that they should, actually. PC Chairs influencing reviews as they want is also bad. But I think there is a middle ground where the guidelines are setup at the start of the process, and chairs enforce that. The other thing is chairs are overwhelmed. 2021-05-20 03:54:33 Ugh https://t.co/X1gMswt6Y8 2021-05-20 03:50:23 RT @tianyin_xu: I like drinking, but I support the idea. I actually rarely enjoying drinking in professional networking events (e.g., confe… 2021-05-19 22:10:17 Fully agree. Thats why I say reporting to these university-run offices may not always be in the best interest of the student. Despite many many examples like these, some profs still disagree. We should always have the well-being of the student as our top priority. https://t.co/gNignvhxh0 2021-05-19 22:06:22 For the investigation to be fair, it must be done by an external agency. Otherwise there is simply no hope of a fair trial or process. 2021-05-19 22:05:11 But these reports also underscore the fundamental conflict of interest in having a *university-funded* agency that investigates such complaints. The folks who sign their checks clearly want the profs to remain at the university and be exonerated. 2021-05-19 22:02:49 Jason Mars is still teaching at Michigan CS? Wow. 2021-05-19 21:55:38 Universities continue to be garbage at protecting students and holding professors accountable. What did the students get for reporting the prof and spending all that time? Nothing. Note that ACM banned the prof for five years, but wouldn't release his name publicly. https://t.co/urvIJw222A 2021-05-19 20:42:41 RT @red_abebe: I am so proud of my department for doing away with the GRE permanently. I'm even more proud that these efforts were led by g… 2021-05-19 20:28:26 RT @_waleedshahid: During a study abroad program, I took a bus from Jordan to Jerusalem alongside 7 (white American) students. When we got… 2021-05-19 19:41:22 Offering someone with a Pulitzer and a MacArthur prize a *five year* un-tenured position, instead of the tenured position they applied for, is an insult. I hope Hannah-Jones does not take this position. UNC clearly does not deserve her time. https://t.co/cICMH1o4r6 2021-05-19 18:56:52 @jeanqasaur @kayvonf This is great. One of the papers they refer to is a good starting point for systems, but focusses too much on solutions (IMO). There can be novelty in the problem! https://t.co/ymF9k3CiE9 2021-05-19 18:51:34 I often feel like state of reviewing in systems is "The Wild Wild West". We should make it much more streamlined and guided. 2021-05-19 18:48:36 Right now, its left upto the discretion of the reviewers as to what they can criticize for each paper. We should provide guidance and say these are the things we should not criticize. It shouldn't be upto reviewers. 2021-05-19 18:42:27 We often bemoan this approach from authors, but as @tdietterich and @geomblog are fond of remarking: we ARE the authors! We should review as we would like our papers to be reviewed, and not criticize papers for such things. 2021-05-19 18:40:43 This is part of the reason why the classical papers are easier to read: they didnt have to do this performative PR. They could simply lay out what problem they were tackling and what ideas/techniques they were combining for their solution. 2021-05-19 18:39:59 What happens when we have this culture that the solution has to be "novel" even if we are tackling a new problem? Authors will twist themselves to give fancy names to their techniques and bury their insights in prose. Its bad all around. 2021-05-19 18:37:30 There is a lot of value and contribution in the careful synthesis of known techniques to tackle a new problem. This is basically how all the systems research I know has been done. We should not be criticizing papers for this. 2021-05-19 18:36:15 I get really annoyed when I see other reviewers bashing a systems paper that is tackling a new problem for "thin novelty". There are only like a handful of ideas/techniques in systems, carefully applied to new settings and problems. So this is poor criticism. 2021-05-19 18:34:31 Here is something I wish as a community we understood and adopted in systems: Novelty can come in many forms. Sometimes novelty lies in an interesting solution, sometimes novelty lies in an interesting new problem. Applying known techniques to a new problem is NOVEL 2021-05-19 16:00:27 RT @Bolopion: The debate on Israel/Palestine remains deeply polarized, with disinformation emanating from different corners. Here are 10 ha… 2021-05-19 15:52:04 RT @aruna__b: The MobiSys student mentorship program 21 call is out. 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She sets the bar for being a great teacher and an empathetic ear for students. https://t.co/lsHb2r37CC 2021-05-18 22:34:28 @mark_riedl You need to pay more attention when you scan Arxiv 2021-05-18 20:26:00 RT @bariskasikci: Check out the OSDI'21 program. Kudos to the chairs for putting together an awesome program on such short notice! https://… 2021-05-18 18:54:34 RT @emilymbender: And we should trust these claims of responsible development of language-model-based chatbots from @Google because, why, e… 2021-05-18 17:43:01 RT @awsTO: Here's a mild story of what it's like under Israeli apartheid. One day, my 13-year-old cousin was walking to school in our vill… 2021-05-18 15:48:47 @roopshasamanta Sorry for your loss, Roopsha :( 2021-05-18 01:23:38 RT @yiying__zhang: I will host a panel on "The Future of Hardware-A Systems Perspective" at HotOS 2021 on 6/1 2pm PT. Current panelists inc… 2021-05-18 00:04:28 RT @HotStorage: https://t.co/Tmc0y1J1PJ 2021-05-17 16:30:03 This is well deserved! Love the work that @huanchenzhang did in his PhD! https://t.co/QateFRL9cS 2021-05-17 16:04:42 RT @gillianrhayes: I am white & 2021-05-17 14:45:21 @geomblog @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @BrownUniversity @BrownCSDept @Brown_DSI @senykam @UtahSoC Congratulations! 2021-05-17 14:36:17 RT @dpezaros: Applications deadline today for 2x faculty positions in Systems @UofG_GLASS @GlasgowCS @UofGlasgow https://t.co/DwmGWauQXP 2021-05-17 13:38:07 RT @ken_goldberg: And EECS @UCBerkeley just voted to drop the GRE from use in grad admissions. Proud of these steps toward diversity. 2021-05-17 13:34:25 RT @awsTO: if you want a brief glimpse of what it's like for Palestinians to live under apartheid, I recommend this Oscar-nominated short o… 2021-05-17 03:46:11 RT @GernotHeiser: Ten days to go to @UNSW’s inaugural John Lions Distinguished Lectures. It’ll be streamed live, and registration is free h… 2021-05-16 18:56:16 RT @bariskasikci: In addition to the paper links, the full schedule is also out. Register if you haven't already here: https://t.co/QcuzW5C… 2021-05-16 00:52:14 RT @SuhailMatar_: Because I mostly user twitter academically, let me share my experience as a Palestinian in Israeli academia. A thread. 1/ 2021-05-15 03:19:42 RT @williampietri: Why hello, patriarchy! Let's dig in on this tweet, where one of the kings of Silicon Valley gives the the game away: htt… 2021-05-14 23:05:46 If you would like to see this philosophy in action, head on over to @jsysresearch! It is a new diamond open access journal built on this idea! https://t.co/AOYf0PnFBG 2021-05-14 18:36:20 RT @cheraghchi: Op-Ed in The Stanford Daily newspaper. @StanfordDaily https://t.co/YbIqCruQzi 2021-05-14 18:12:43 RT @Margaret1473: I am thrilled to know that the CDC now feels confident that fully vaccinated people are at low risk of transmitting COVID… 2021-05-13 18:23:08 RT @yudapearl: Those who enjoyed Moshe Vardi's talk on Logic and Computation https://t.co/eX1mtRa66L would be pleased to know that he just… 2021-05-13 17:45:27 RT @homeowmorphism: When I was in undergrad, I went to math seminars and they made me feel stupid. I didn't understand a single word. But I… 2021-05-13 16:49:49 RT @MidasNouwens: Google just announced a seemingly innocuous technical change to how they render content in Docs, but in reality this is a… 2021-05-13 14:42:51 RT @roopshasamanta: My cousin in India is in critical condition with COVID-19. We need Tocilizumab 400 MG IV urgently in Faridabad, Haryan… 2021-05-13 13:24:16 We have put together a great program for SYSTOR 21 with 19 papers! Come attend SYSTOR 21: it's free! We have three amazing keynote speakers! https://t.co/um72LRWLvD 2021-05-12 22:35:34 RT @GovMikeDeWine: Two weeks from tonight on May 26th, we will announce a winner of a separate drawing for adults who have received at leas… 2021-05-12 21:39:05 RT @NourHaridy: Vitalik donates one fucking billion dollars to India Covid Relief https://t.co/3FLPePhcjg https://t.co/S5Tm2JPSo1 2021-05-12 20:30:02 RT @santacalculus: I was 20 when the pandemic started. I’m going to turn 22. Sometimes I realize the enormity of all the amazing experience… 2021-05-12 18:43:49 RT @UTCompSci: 6 UTCS students were awarded the 2021 Aspire Award, an award that recognizes undergrads from underrepresented groups in the… 2021-05-12 13:40:00 RT @AndrewDGordon: PhD students, need extra funding and paid internship to help complete your dissertation? Deadline for EMEA applicants is… 2021-05-12 00:07:43 RT @rodrigo_fonseca: If you want to help the situation in India but don't know how, my good friend Dr Jinen Thakkar in RI is leading an eff… 2021-05-11 22:49:51 RT @michael_w_hicks: The Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) introduces senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students to… 2021-05-11 16:59:32 RT @mark_riedl: This may be a rational decision because rolling review is upon us. In my experience during the pandemic, even small concess… 2021-05-11 02:41:15 RT @levie: 20 years ago. https://t.co/xWlayv9wHE 2021-05-10 20:58:25 RT @MSFTResearch: Today, we're thrilled to accept nominations and proposals for the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship across Asia-Pacific,… 2021-05-10 20:57:17 RT @QueerinAI: Announcement: We have decided to end our sponsorship relationship with @google. Together with @blackinai and @winlpworksho… 2021-05-10 15:20:39 @NeerajaJY @CockrellSchool @UTAustin @utexasece Congratulations! Super happy to have you as a colleague at @UTAustin :) 2021-05-10 15:15:39 RT @NSF: Happy birthday to us! For more than 7⃣ decades, @NSF has funded science and engineering research— from astronomy to zoology and… 2021-05-09 14:17:05 RT @histoftech: “The minimum time for paid maternity leave for most member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Deve… 2021-05-08 21:47:15 RT @adityaakella: Finally got a chance to announce that Shuchi and I are joining the UT Austin CS department as professors starting Fall 20… 2021-05-08 21:02:02 RT @geomblog: This is the first time I've seen a recognition that reviewers are also authors. I don't know if tbe penalty of not submitting… 2021-05-08 18:43:12 @TweetAtAKK @schemeprincess This is only the round 1 load. Total is around 30 papers for a heavy pc member! I used to think every community did things this way before I learnt about other communities :) 2021-05-08 18:32:11 @schemeprincess As a community, we should push back against these norms in the systems community. It's insane to review to so many papers: we could easily double the PC size and cut load in half. Other communities review like 6 papers and think that's high! 2021-05-08 18:23:48 RT @ericarbailey: having worked in industry I am not under any illusion that it's that much better than working in academia. BUT there ar… 2021-05-07 15:18:14 RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW: time for a proper thread on B.1.617.2, the subtype of the Indian variant that has been moved to "variant of concern"… 2021-05-07 14:47:32 RT @khanthefatima: I had Covid, when should I get vaccine? What if I miss second dose? In-depth story by @sandygrains answering these que… 2021-05-06 15:10:42 RT @TeenaMGerhardt: This picture of my husband with our youngest child was taken in 2018 by one of his PhD students during an advising meet… 2021-05-05 21:41:04 RT @NPR: The United States will restrict Indian nationals from flying into U.S. airports. It's part of a growing global ban on travel to an… 2021-05-05 16:31:37 RT @togelius: New blog post: "Rethinking large conferences" https://t.co/eU1mQG8lgZ I argue that large, "selective" conferences like IJCAI,… 2021-05-05 16:27:58 RT @BorisGrot: Thanks to a last-minute industry funding windfall, I have multiple PhD openings in @ease_lab! If you know amazing students w… 2021-05-05 01:54:13 Please consider donating to Arxiv. Arxiv enables critical sharing of research without a paywall. They are critical to getting interesting ideas out there and widely read. This is crucial for spurring creativity and innovation. https://t.co/oPtyl2AfkB 2021-05-05 01:42:09 RT @jlowepower: Can I just say this whole thing seems completely ridiculous to me! We should move to a journal-first model and have an edit… 2021-05-05 01:16:11 RT @feamster: When talking about "selectivity" at conferences with my student today, I showed him these and watched his jaw drop. Physical… 2021-05-04 15:55:16 RT @MicroArchConf: MICRO 2021 will run an Artifacts Evaluation process this year for first time. Join the Artifact Evaluation Committee @Mi… 2021-05-04 14:47:00 RT @GenieShinobi: Bro, they said no more teleworking and my co-workers started QUITTING 2021-05-03 21:01:17 RT @madanMus: Formally proven code is now part of Windows/Azure. Hundreds of parsers now exactly allow messages that satisfy their spec. @R… 2021-05-03 20:57:46 RT @alexxaleoon: first gen latina committed to the university of texas at austin with a full ride! #UT25 #ImpactScholarship https://t.co/C… 2021-05-03 19:39:15 @sangeetha_a_j Congratulations! 2021-05-03 18:15:44 RT @QueerZoomer: NAACL 2021 will waive registration for all authors from underrepresented developing countries and affinity groups with acc… 2021-05-03 14:32:45 RT @Teri_Kanefield: The Radicalization of the Republican Party I recorded another YouTube video here: https://t.co/SBuJdA036t If you pref… 2021-05-03 04:26:03 RT @TakirraWD: Only 9 of us. When we say systemic racism and bias in the health care system... 2021-05-03 03:56:35 RT @simonw: "Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages" is absolutely brilliant: it adds a virtual filesystem to SQLite-compiled-to-WebAssem… 2021-05-03 02:48:19 RT @theferocity: “You will be rewarded for working like an animal, but you also will be treated like an animal.” This rocked me to my core,… 2021-05-03 00:40:20 RT @roopshasamanta: Because we could all do with some cheer, sharing some photos of spring in my yard this year. (We had planted a bunch o… 2021-05-02 23:59:26 RT @jimfeyrer: This is amazingly good advice for academics. https://t.co/9j6nuXqCfR 2021-05-02 03:28:30 RT @michaelhilton: @TaliaRinger @norootcause @samth Any PhD students out there, who are interested in finding out more about Teaching Track… 2021-05-01 22:34:52 RT @_danilo: The Valley's premier financialization scam is going to retool Everything is working so well, they're laying off 65 people. Ho… 2021-05-01 19:48:02 @nirajtolia Seven! One until end of undergrad, three in grad school, one in post doc, two since joining UT 2021-05-01 02:55:43 RT @vijayanands: IMPORTANT- TN Govt has launched a Unified Command Centre to tackle COVID-19 surge UCC will manage bed requirement and bed… 2021-05-01 02:33:56 RT @bhaskark_la: As many of you know from the news, the second wave of Covid-19 has really hit hard in India. In the thread below are some… 2021-04-30 23:50:24 RT @byroncook: AWS/Amazon has jobs in SMT, model checking, deductive theorem proving, program analysis, program synthesis, etc. We have ma… 2021-04-30 17:22:13 @theonewolf @EuroSys_conf Indeed. The cost of false negatives is much much higher than false positives. 2021-04-30 17:21:49 @alex_ander @EuroSys_conf It was in reaction to that :) 2021-04-30 16:31:12 From Peter Druschel at @EuroSys_conf AMA: (paraphrasing) "We should leave the judging of impact of papers to the community. This will happen over time. We should be lenient when accepting papers" 2021-04-30 15:55:14 @thegautamkamath Interesting to who? The randomly picked reviewers? What if it would be interesting to other reviewers but not the ones picked? 2021-04-29 21:47:00 RT @tianyin_xu: Send your "config" papers to @jsysresearch, from cloud management, to kernel specialization, to combinatorial software test… 2021-04-29 19:44:43 RT @emollick: Have you ever been asked a brainteaser in a job interview? That’s a big Research at Google found that brainteasers were… 2021-04-29 00:49:34 RT @MarcJBrooker: I write a lot of technical and narrative documents at work, most 2 to 6 pages. I wanted to share an editing technique tha… 2021-04-29 00:36:24 RT @xkcdComic: Types of Scientific Paper https://t.co/dKRewc3zdQ https://t.co/JtjfOwJUzn https://t.co/hJkmwZFUFr 2021-04-28 23:13:51 Happy to serve as one of the editors for the online version of 2021-04-28 19:47:59 RT @jsysresearch: We are happy to launch the Networking area for this upcoming deadline, chaired by the amazing Junchen Jiang Check-out… 2021-04-28 19:47:55 RT @jsysresearch: Too tight to submit this time around? No worries! @jsysresearch has four deadlines per year Next ones will be: - 1st o… 2021-04-28 19:40:41 RT @jsysresearch: Call for Papers! https://t.co/iKpATm4VLl Next deadline: 1st May Calling for papers in 8 areas: - Config Mgmt for… 2021-04-28 15:58:01 RT @nikitab: This is an eloquent write up by @vardi on some of the internal problems facing ACM. The membership wants to see the ACM transf… 2021-04-28 01:38:14 RT @philipshilane: The @HotStorage deadline is April 30th! https://t.co/YksdjMiD6n 2021-04-27 20:11:01 RT @EuroSys_conf: We want to thank all the members of the organization committee and our awesome volunteers! #eurosys21 https://t.co/Q7AjtV… 2021-04-27 19:00:18 RT @cheraghchi: Statement co-signed by executive committees of 14 ACM Special Interest Groups regarding Jeffrey Ullman's Turing Award. @The… 2021-04-27 17:00:58 RT @EuroSys_conf: The @EuroSys_conf 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Antony (Ant) Rowstron of Microsoft Research Cambridge. https://… 2021-04-27 16:21:24 I'm really glad @adriancolyer 's work on the Morning Paper was recognized :) https://t.co/KMd0Dgi2MN 2021-04-27 00:37:17 RT @davidjustodavid: Hey, you, yeah you! If you're remotely interested in Programming Languages research, types, compilers, programming abs… 2021-04-26 22:13:18 RT @karinfischer: NEW: The U.S. government's Student and Exchange Visitor Program announces it will extend guidance for international stude… 2021-04-26 18:54:30 RT @EuroSys_conf: Stay tuned and join in 1 hour the #AskMeAnything #1 talk by Andrew Tanenbaum (@VUamsterdam) #eurosy21 https://t.co/nCWSPT… 2021-04-26 18:54:27 RT @maheshb: Super happy to give a short talk at LADIS in a few hours -- session starts at 11:45 AM PST! https://t.co/bWYJ2uaKsJ 2021-04-26 17:21:13 RT @bighpcproject: Are you working on your next scientific paper on #HPC and #BigData fields? We are so proud to announce that we are supp… 2021-04-26 17:13:50 RT @SominW: @ToschEmma You can ask them to reach out to the local US embassy/consulate for an “emergency appointment”. F-visas qualify for… 2021-04-26 13:46:18 RT @bariskasikci: EuroDW'21 @EuroSys_conf starts in 15 min! Join us to see some awesome research being showcased by Ph.D. students all arou… 2021-04-26 01:58:11 RT @EricTopol: My table to summarize the evidence Many publications and preprint are in prior posts Overall the lab studies of sera from va… 2021-04-26 00:52:44 RT @watermicrobe: Indian () grad students in the US () - any interest in a #covid19 peer support network (via slack)? If yes, comment b… 2021-04-25 22:46:41 RT @nirajtolia: Hey, folks, I will match up to $1,000 of new donations to @sewausa, a 501(c)(3) org, for #COVID19India relief. Just DM m… 2021-04-25 22:16:07 RT @mekkaokereke: I don't go to Grace Hopper, and I don't tell people to "Lean in." If that stuff works for you, then great! What works… 2021-04-25 21:24:06 RT @hima_lakkaraju: It is not normal for students/anyone in academia to get depressed. We should not normalize it. We should train professo… 2021-04-25 15:23:31 RT @MeenakshiSyamku: Same story with us - my parents haven't met my son in-person :(. I have no idea when we can go back to India with the… 2021-04-25 03:01:06 RT @nehanarkhede: The COVID resurge is wreaking havoc across India. With > 2021-04-25 02:41:57 RT @evelyndouek: A state minister accuses Prime Minister Modi of downplaying the seriousness of the pandemic. The gvt orders Twitter to tak… 2021-04-24 23:31:07 RT @sibinmohan: I’m seeing a massive disconnect (more so than usual) between the two twitter worlds I usually inhabit — the US and India. I… 2021-04-24 22:43:31 RT @mmitchell_ai: I really appreciated this article, but there are a couple things that keep nagging at me (thread)...1/ https://t.co/66zYE… 2021-04-24 19:44:54 @jubitaneja Same. The really scary stories are those where vaccinated folks end up being hospitalized or in some cases, dying. 2021-04-24 19:44:00 RT @jubitaneja: Words are too few to express what Indians are going through at the moment. We had a family member who literally struggled t… 2021-04-24 19:35:47 @LyfsAbsurdities Yes, I think we are all going through this! 2021-04-24 19:34:43 Things like deadlines and papers really lose meaning in this endless loop after a while. I'm really glad I have students, they keep me going! I'm also glad my students took the opportunity to go visit family in the past year when they could. I wish I had done the same. 2021-04-24 19:33:10 It has been 2.5 years since I last saw family. I was supposed to go see them this summer. It feels like I've been running non-stop since March 2020. This summer was supposed to be the break. Not sure how long I can keep doing this. 2021-04-24 19:14:02 A lot of this resonates with me, and it's been hard to do any work for the past week or so. https://t.co/0Gwm2DBeac 2021-04-24 17:11:29 RT @sibinmohan: One more website that collects a lot of the information for #CovidIndia. Things like: - vacant bed tracker - oxygen availa… 2021-04-24 14:20:58 RT @ACMSoCC: Call for Papers for ACM SoCC 2021 is out!! Submission deadline is **May 28**. Thanks to our wonderful program chairs Georgia K… 2021-04-24 04:27:36 RT @cheraghchi: (1/3) In 2004, as an undergrad student in Iran, I wrote an email to Bernard Chazelle in Princeton telling him that due to e… 2021-04-24 03:05:14 RT @CRA_WP: The 2021 Virtual Grad Cohort Workshop for Women is underway! #GRADCOHORT2021 https://t.co/rKsCT2Ycw6 2021-04-24 01:54:57 RT @Tanvim: i know a lot of the aid organizing is informal, but if anyone has links, please drop them in below! 2021-04-24 01:51:00 RT @sibinmohan: @mynkgoel @poonamkachandd @gauravsabnis @SMukherjee89 A friend also pointed me to these orgs (in terms of ability to accept… 2021-04-23 22:21:46 RT @bariskasikci: EuroDW'21 is next Monday: https://t.co/Kc2uAxqFMV We have a fantastic series of talks and I am very much looking forward… 2021-04-23 21:00:05 RT @Sherinapoyyail: HELLO WORLD If you're watching the COVID-19 disaster unfold in India and are wondering what you can do to help. Here a… 2021-04-23 20:46:10 RT @VHuixiang: 22 months after Huixiang's suicide, Tao Li resigned via @wuftnews https://t.co/6JcmzBmBD2 2021-04-23 19:01:02 RT @ryanphuang: The HAOC workshop on cloud system availability and observability is taking place Monday April 26 at 8 am PST. We have a gre… 2021-04-23 17:13:29 RT @brandybruja: @mynkgoel @sibinmohan @poonamkachandd @gauravsabnis @SMukherjee89 You could donate to Khalsa Aid. They are sending oxygen… 2021-04-23 02:06:12 RT @berthahidalgo: My son's 6th grade class got this slide to help them remember what mode, median, mean are, and so obvi I'm going to make… 2021-04-23 00:27:02 @qixing_huang Congratulations! Cc @UTCompSci 2021-04-23 00:22:56 RT @NBedera: Today, I testified in support of California's AB-1467, which would make campus victim advocates independent from their univers… 2021-04-22 23:58:18 RT @bariskasikci: In the last 4 years I have been teaching, never have I seen students struggle as much as I did this semester. The pandemi… 2021-04-22 23:55:03 RT @braileysanchez: After several productive months and being in good spirits (relatively speaking), I have suddenly hit a wall and every d… 2021-04-22 23:47:14 RT @geomblog: @Miles_Brundage Pity it didn't go thru an internal review where .... I don't know ..... people might have asked to cite relev… 2021-04-22 19:18:42 RT @Anupam_Guha: And for the sake of all that is sensible, cut out guilt from your life. Focus on getting through this time with your sense… 2021-04-22 15:05:50 RT @justinesherry: RT'd just for the line "My mother was a scientist" 2021-04-22 02:41:42 RT @johnregehr: garbage move by a garbage company. let's help them reach zero revenue by encouraging schools to not pay for their software.… 2021-04-22 02:00:29 RT @math_rachel: I read Jeff Dean's most recent comments about how AI ethics researchers need to offer solutions and realized I already wro… 2021-04-22 01:22:22 RT @siobhcroo: It worries me that academic merit from the hours of 9-5 is not enough to study X,Y at some universities, but that you have t… 2021-04-22 00:45:20 When I visited my high school nephew when I was in grad school, I found out he worked much harder than me. His day started at 4 am and went all the way until 10 pm. Academically ambitious high school students work like lawyers trying to make partner. https://t.co/iASVOMA6hR 2021-04-21 17:27:51 RT @vkalavri: The #AMA sessions at OSDI'21 were a big favorite (thanks to @vj_chidambaram and @hlebland!). Next week, I'll do my best to… 2021-04-21 14:56:10 RT @kaytwo: @__apf__ my understanding of the timeline: researchers submit hypocrite commits, hypocrite commits get accepted, researchers ap… 2021-04-21 10:06:50 RT @tianyin_xu: I loved every Barrelfish paper and it's so special to read this retrospective from @0xabU. Quoting @shanluchicago, it's "in… 2021-04-20 23:34:59 RT @danny_y_huang: I started my first two years of grad school doing data center network research, before stumbling upon an opportunity to… 2021-04-20 21:58:28 I didn't know what my thesis was going to be about until my third year! The first year is meant for building a strong foundation and exploring, so don't feel bad about this! https://t.co/XN3VTmHUAe 2021-04-20 21:57:04 RT @keanan_joyner: Very glad for a guilty verdict. It was the only right and just outcome for this trial. Now. Start changing systems that… 2021-04-20 18:29:48 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS'21 Influential Paper Awards: • A VLIW architecture for a trace scheduling compiler • The cache performance and optim… 2021-04-20 03:34:43 @nikitab Oh come on! Is the ACM run by robots incapable of independent thought who can only respond to prompts? 2021-04-20 03:30:19 @nikitab I agree that would be a serious step forward. I would like to see it coupled with some positive action (perhaps directed at Iranian students) as well. 2021-04-20 02:56:50 @nikitab I'm quite happy to be proven wrong! The track record of ACM is not on its side here. I'm sure a committee will be formed, which 2 years later will put out a non-response much like this one.. 2021-04-20 02:03:45 RT @TweetAtAKK: 1/6 : Thank you @TheOfficialACM for the official response to the petition by #CSForInclusion. To me, this response is mor… 2021-04-20 01:54:50 RT @sangeetha_a_j: This is just eyewash. I had reported derogatory statements to the ACM ethics committee on a different issue. The respons… 2021-04-20 01:27:34 @TheOfficialACM I am also disappointed with the brusque, minimal response which shows zero empathy with the people hurt by this. "We are a bureaucratic organization and we will only respond to asks in an open letter" 2021-04-20 01:25:32 @mdekstrand Yup, exactly what I recommended too. But there are concerns if people are nominated and don't win, and then they feel sad. I don't think this is a big concern. 2021-04-20 01:22:51 Note that even folks not associated with this decision at all have made announcements about how they will donate money or time to aid Iranian and other international students, in the spirit of righting this wrong. Given the large resources of @TheOfficialACM, what will it do? 2021-04-20 01:19:45 The current response seems to brush aside the problems with "oh we didn't know". Well, now you do know. What now? ACM says things like "we will create a committee to design something in the future", hoping nobody will follow up. 2021-04-20 01:17:55 @TheOfficialACM 3) Explicitly say that in the future, folks with known racist views would not be eligible for any ACM awards 4) Talk about what they will do if they find out retroactively. It seems the policy is to not do anything? 2021-04-20 01:15:50 Things I wished the @TheOfficialACM had done in their response: 1/n 1) Acknowledge that a lot of folks in the international computing community are hurt, and wondering whether they belong. 2) Re-affirm that Iranians are a valuable part of the community https://t.co/C596TaLOOa 2021-04-20 00:33:05 RT @iangneal: Looking forward to discussing our work on "Hippocrates: Healing Persistent Memory Bugs without Doing Any Harm" (https://t.co/… 2021-04-19 22:27:59 RT @akshaykagrawal: PhD candidates are like artists. They are given a small stipend. In return, they get to make anything they like, with… 2021-04-19 19:03:17 RT @histoftech: Since we’re talking about this: I really valued the access afforded by online events/conferences this year and will be very… 2021-04-19 18:59:18 RT @MarcJBrooker: New blog post, one view on while tail latency might have more of an impact on clients than you expect: "Tail Latency Migh… 2021-04-19 15:14:13 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS 2021 Distinguished Paper Award winner 5/6: "Neural Architecture Search as Program Transformation Exploration" https:… 2021-04-19 15:14:05 Chris Rossbach and team at @UTCompSci and @vmwareresearch win a Distinguished paper award at @ASPLOSConf! https://t.co/UNkV3fRCE5 2021-04-19 15:13:14 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS 2021 Distinguished Paper Award winner 2/6: "Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines" https://t.co/HDW… 2021-04-19 15:13:10 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS 2021 Distinguished Paper Award winner 4/6: "VSync: Push-Button Verification and Optimization for Synchronization Pri… 2021-04-19 15:13:03 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS 2021 Distinguished Paper Award winner 1/6: "Who's Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Information Bugs in Optimi… 2021-04-19 02:27:48 RT @josepablocam: Ever wish you could give input on the immigration bureaucracy? I certainly have, and this seems like a great opportunity… 2021-04-19 01:22:18 RT @cspramesh: I know the #COVID-19 numbers in India are not looking good, but here are my (not so) random thoughts on it https://t.co/HTBc… 2021-04-19 01:19:47 RT @ASPLOSConf: 4/19: @ASPLOSconf Day 1! • Distinguished Paper & • KEYNOTE: @clattner_llvm (SIFive) "The Golden Age of Comp… 2021-04-18 23:35:49 RT @golovashkina: I swear, it’s the same three headlines every single week: - police shoot unarmed black man - mass shooter bought guns le… 2021-04-18 22:53:52 RT @TheOfficialACM: The ACM-IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships honor exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose resea… 2021-04-18 18:09:40 RT @tplohetski: BREAKING: Austin police and medics confirm a shooting in Northwest Austin near the Arboretum in what has been described as… 2021-04-18 17:59:06 This is a place we frequent :( https://t.co/EACz5EqVhg 2021-04-17 14:23:58 RT @martinkl: If you're interested in CRDTs, this year's PaPoC workshop features a bunch of interesting new research in the area, plus a ke… 2021-04-16 23:41:29 RT @TattooedMuppet: Me: painstakingly selects names for every town, mountain, river, etc in my books using lots of research into meanings a… 2021-04-16 18:11:48 @lorisdanto @ACMDL Dont use ACM DL for bibs, use @dblp_org, much better quality 2021-04-16 16:30:51 RT @EthanZ: I got the news today that I've been granted tenure at @UMassAmherst. My feelings are multilayered and complicated - lots of gra… 2021-04-16 16:29:43 Would you like thoughtful reviews from experts? Would you like to publish without paying any money (either for travel, registration, or open access fees)? For these and other benefits, submit to @jsysresearch! Deadline: May 1st, Aug 1st CFP: https://t.co/2t8imi3yLr https://t.co/ogwTRk1qlU 2021-04-16 16:16:00 RT @mboehme_: The Devil's Guide by @AndreasZeller is a satirical perspective on how members of our research community are systematically ch… 2021-04-16 15:31:54 RT @simon_eismann: Those are some of the best reviews I've seen in a long time - JSys is off to a great start! 2021-04-16 00:51:30 RT @dims: @lindsey @vj_chidambaram We have a lot of companies looking to such hire talent in the cloud native / kubernetes ecosystem. Pleas… 2021-04-15 23:09:48 RT @lindsey: So, there are 80-some undergrads in my distributed systems course (https://t.co/gWrEvuKj86), and a lot of them are (a) worried… 2021-04-15 20:16:54 @johnregehr You are on! It will also be nice to meet you in person :) 2021-04-15 20:07:56 RT @vkalavri: The degree of detail and thoughtfulness in these reviews is amazing Want to receive reviews of similar quality for your p… 2021-04-15 19:52:11 @satnam6502 Please send it to @jsysresearch ! 2021-04-15 19:49:22 RT @jsysresearch: For a taste of what reviews are like at @jsysresearch, check out these excellent reviews: https://t.co/SmkXGqQzt9 http… 2021-04-15 19:38:07 RT @tianyin_xu: The quality of review is truly impressive. What's more impressive to me is the amount of efforts, thoughts, transparency, a… 2021-04-15 19:37:33 @johnregehr I'd wager we hit 1M LOC by 2025 2021-04-15 19:14:17 @vishalmisra @jsysresearch Ah, thanks for the catch, first journal, though we have some aspects of a conference :) Thank you for the kind words! 2021-04-15 19:10:16 @jsysresearch It has come a long way from when it was just an idea on a google doc. Thanks to all the reviewers, area chairs, and student volunteers who helped make this a reality! 2021-04-15 19:09:26 Extremely proud to share the results from the first deadline of @jsysresearch! This is the very first system conference to have anonymized public reviews for all submissions. https://t.co/fSDgEhGUXO 2021-04-15 18:35:57 RT @LaurenMaffeo: The firings of @timnitGebru & 2021-04-15 15:24:27 RT @bariskasikci: HotOS'21 will be open to all this year and registration is free for students! We have a great set of papers that will gen… 2021-04-15 02:16:55 @JAldrichPL @jsysresearch I'm sure this does happen in niche areas with very few people working on it, but I'm confident for most papers we can find non conflicted expert reviewers 2021-04-15 01:50:01 @geomblog I think that's for assessing paper quality no? Here it reflects pc/editorial board expertise and availability 2021-04-15 01:49:10 The way @jsysresearch is different from traditional journals is that we have a standing editorial board so that area chairs already have a list of people who have committed time to reviewing. 2021-04-15 01:48:08 IMO, a lot of the ills plaguing reviewing can be traced to the notion that we *must* review every paper submitted, regardless of pc expertise or pc reviewing capacity. The ability to say no gives a lot of power. Reviewing systems have limits we must acknowledge. 2021-04-15 01:46:44 We are attempting to fix this in @jsysresearch with an idea from journals: for each submission, area chair tries to find expert reviewers. If we can't find, we say NO to the paper and return it quickly to the authors so they can submit elsewhere. https://t.co/R6QGfqGwnt 2021-04-15 01:21:47 RT @feamster: Yes, thanks! Very true. We had a Review Task Force for IMC and we're doing it again for @inretafo ANRW (deadline next week).… 2021-04-14 22:16:09 RT @steveklabnik: "We are finally here, with an RFC that adds support for Rust to the Linux kernel." https://t.co/M9adOM0fSz 2021-04-14 21:23:12 RT @protocol: Twitter will share how race and politics shape its algorithms https://t.co/yf72ahrIyH 2021-04-14 21:05:48 RT @syardi: This is a really good summary of mandatory reporting considerations wrt sexual harassment on college campuses. Professors - reg… 2021-04-14 19:53:42 @alirahimi0 @feamster @dahlia_malkhi @dantsafrir @emeryberger @kozyraki I think it all boils down to how much effort we are willing to spend on it, and how much effort we feel comfortable asking from other people. 2021-04-14 19:51:25 @alirahimi0 @feamster @dahlia_malkhi @dantsafrir @emeryberger and @kozyraki were very strict about review quality and wouldn't release reviews or decisions unless the reviews were fixed (even if it meant late decisions). This was great! 2021-04-14 19:50:21 @alirahimi0 I think we can absolutely make reviewing better by spending more effort on it. For example, @feamster, @dahlia_malkhi, and @dantsafrir have at various points had Review Task Forces checking for review quality -- this made a big difference. 2021-04-14 18:53:58 RT @samps: Hey. We’re running an @ASPLOSConf workshop tomorrow about PL/compilers for designing hardware accelerators. @notypes has done an… 2021-04-14 17:25:08 RT @jsysresearch: All the reviews are in for the JSys March submissions (both regular papers and artifact evaluations)! We will be making t… 2021-04-14 16:26:14 RT @RashmiKVinayak: N2Women panel at #nsdi21 today 1 - 1:30pm ET on the topic of diversity. I am participating as a panelist along with Lil… 2021-04-14 15:07:21 RT @pramod_bhatotia: I'm really glad that @EuroSys_conf adopted Artifact Evaluation (AE). It's great that systems conferences are unifying… 2021-04-14 14:59:09 RT @martinkl: New blog post In which I argue that we should stop using the GPL and other copyleft software licenses, because they have… 2021-04-14 14:27:35 @adityaakella @laochonlam @yanfangle @kshiteejmahajan Congrats Aditya! 2021-04-14 13:16:10 RT @adityaakella: ATP, our system for switch-accelerated multi-tenant learning, won the NSDI'21 best paper award. Congratulations @laochonl… 2021-04-14 05:25:06 RT @HotStorage: Call For Papers: https://t.co/ATO629UlT2 2021-04-14 03:58:51 RT @jjvincent: The fallout from Google's firing of @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai continues to shake the AI community — I wrote about ongoi… 2021-04-14 02:41:14 RT @lindsey: @HilaCodes @wilbowma Yeah. When I read grad school applications that are all "I want to do Very Important Things X, Y, and Z w… 2021-04-13 19:33:00 RT @vj_chidambaram: Students, this is today! 12:30-1:30 PDT! Come attend the panel about "Ph.D student life" and "What is Research?" Hoste… 2021-04-13 17:50:13 @josepablocam Yes, that's unfortunately true. A degree matters more for minority folks. But they get disproportionately more abuse too sadly. 2021-04-13 17:38:38 An academic job is great, but by means is it the only way to do research or to teach if that's what you want to do. Don't put yourself through misery for an academic job. 2021-04-13 17:37:42 Yes! I think this is the crucial point. A phd is *required* only for academic jobs. Most other jobs, even ones in research, you can get without a phd. For example, you can join many RnD teams with just a masters, and get promoted to leadership positions. https://t.co/0wmDrdRzDj 2021-04-13 17:33:33 RT @hadip: Today, I join computer scientists from around the world to call on ACM to revisit its criteria for granting this Turing Award. W… 2021-04-13 16:09:05 RT @mgrnbrg: Print is dead! Interactive articles present a tremendous opportunity for disseminating ideas. We can make our work truly acce… 2021-04-13 16:00:58 @barik Yes, I know lots of students who switched advisors too. And in almost all cases, it helped a lot! 2021-04-13 15:58:15 @barik I think if you can change your situation, thats a different question. But if you are stuck with the same advisor, hard to argue it is worth it. 2021-04-13 15:57:37 @xLeitix It is a personal decision of course, but I'm arguing 5 years of mental abuse is not actually worth getting a PhD in the end, because of the opportunities in our field. 2021-04-13 15:17:18 Fully agree. This is the "sunk cost fallacy". Don't throw good years of your life after the bad. You should only do a PhD if a *lot* of things align. If they later don't align, quit. We are lucky enough to be in a field where you would get great opportunities after quitting. https://t.co/q22mI9aaPq 2021-04-13 15:15:19 @heades @NSF @AUG_Cyber Happy to help :) 2021-04-13 15:13:28 @heades @NSF @AUG_Cyber Congratulations! 2021-04-12 22:04:12 RT @gwenckatz: Colorization APIs are becoming widespread 2021-04-12 17:21:43 RT @EuroSys_conf: Don’t forget to register for #eurosys21! Registration is free but limited slots remain available. 2021-04-12 15:27:29 RT @fadeladib: In my group at MIT, we celebrate Ramadan, Christmas, Hanukkah, Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Diwali, ... Each holiday, a celebrati… 2021-04-12 14:34:58 RT @jeffrey_heer: Thank you to everyone raising the visibility of efforts to improve inclusion and equity in computer science and beyond. H… 2021-04-12 12:35:53 RT @philipshilane: The HotStorage '21 site is open for submissions. Check out the CFP. #hotstorage https://t.co/YksdjMiD6n 2021-04-12 02:05:26 RT @yiying__zhang: Also consider attending the WORDS workshop (The Second Workshop On Resource Disaggregation and Serverless) on 4/15! 2021-04-12 01:38:52 RT @haltingproblem: Academic Twitter rn: Wow, this year has been so hard, how does anybody get anything done, be kind to yourself, the othe… 2021-04-12 01:32:50 RT @ASPLOSConf: ASPLOS 2021 starts tomorrow with a rich program of workshops and tutorials that will continue throughout the whole week. ht… 2021-04-11 18:43:49 RT @d_feldman: Will people learn how we treat the scientists who save the world? 2021-04-11 17:48:49 RT @ZJAyres: -Professors are not trained in mental health support -The way that success is measured in academia is not by pastoral care = t… 2021-04-11 17:22:13 RT @Dev14e: Went on a lil hike on the seven springs trail yesterday (⅓) https://t.co/xvH4limEpN 2021-04-11 17:10:00 RT @CarolynAnhDang: Sending love to advisers who go out of their way to mentor students ethically and empathetically, who bring up our name… 2021-04-11 16:47:11 @vinayaksn @jsysresearch Yes, reviewers are not identified 2021-04-11 14:38:10 RT @emsaurios: @emilymbender @theAGU also awardees have to self-disclose compliance with code of conduct before public announcements, and l… 2021-04-11 14:38:08 RT @emsaurios: @emilymbender A good example is @theAGU's most recent code of ethics includes bullying, harassment & 2021-04-11 03:12:58 Progress! But there was life without parole for kids?! https://t.co/mcMRECazY2 2021-04-11 03:11:57 RT @AstroKatie: SCIENCE: Exercising is good for you, you should do more of that ME: That seems like a lot of effort SCIENCE: … ME: Isn’t th… 2021-04-11 02:11:38 RT @Dev14e: Hey @chsiedentop this is the view from my side of the mountain! (I have taken many more pictures on my camera, but will have to… 2021-04-11 02:08:35 Folks, we are looking for an Area Chair for the networking area at @jsysresearch. Please reach out to us if you would be interested! Area Chairs recruit reviewers, solicit papers, and shepherd reviews, with support from the rest of the @jsysresearch team! 2021-04-11 01:24:06 RT @jsysresearch: One of the nice things about the OpenReview model adopted by @jsysresearch is that the reviews will be publicly shared, a… 2021-04-11 01:23:56 RT @jsysresearch: The reviews are coming for the Mar 1st submissions for @jsysresearch, and we are loving the review quality! Every revie… 2021-04-11 01:11:47 RT @boazbaraktcs: 1/12 I recently protested Israel's education minister's decision to rescind Oded Goldreich's Israel prize https://t.co/I… 2021-04-10 23:45:04 #6 toxic behavior by prof leads student to commit suicide. university suspends prof for 2 years, allows them to come back and work on research again, alongside the very students they abused. Prof worked at NSF during suspension. https://t.co/rNRFI1Bd6K 2021-04-10 18:52:45 @JAldrichPL @clegoues @TheOfficialACM Yes! And I think another thing that can be done is to say "we are considering X, Y, Z for this award" publicly. Then people can speak up or contact the committee. 2021-04-10 18:08:52 @clegoues @TheOfficialACM Yes, this is what I suspect as well. But there is value in explicitly saying this and figuring out how to avoid this in the future. Also, not everyone agrees DEI should figure into selection, so there is a debate to be had, and a decision to be made. 2021-04-10 17:07:15 I would imagine these are the bare minimum to do to make ACM's position on this clear. Empty corporate speak doesn't help. 2021-04-10 17:04:06 The letter has 2 requests: that @TheOfficialACM provide details about the selection process, and explicitly clarify whether things like discrimination have any bearing on the award. It is okay to say discrimination doesn't matter, but make it official in writing. https://t.co/txMvFHcZPs 2021-04-10 08:14:04 RT @jedisct1: [CVE-2021-29154] Linux kernel incorrect computation of branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler can be abused to execute arbi… 2021-04-10 06:16:42 RT @niloufar_s: If you are a Computer Scientist who's mad at the ACM right now, can I suggest channeling some of that energy to waiving app… 2021-04-10 00:00:09 @limufar @heyelbs Yes, I can recognize people may not be comfortable saying anything openly. Let me invert the advice: go to a place where the students are openly happy and enthusiastic about their advisor and the dept :) 2021-04-09 23:54:05 @heyelbs Good point! Its why you should talk to ex-students if you can. And visiting students should learn to read between the lines and take a lack of enthusiasm as a cause of concern. 2021-04-09 23:48:35 RT @ThatsMauvelous: Taylor Swift, intellectual property law, and due dilligence disasters In 2005, 13-year-old aspiring country singer T… 2021-04-09 23:48:27 RT @ThatsMauvelous: And I just wanna know - what the hell happened here? It looks like the buyers failed to realize that their financial a… 2021-04-09 23:40:44 RT @RoBBifulco: Our group will present "Unikraft: Fast, Specialized Unikernels the Easy Way" at @EuroSys_conf The paper is packed with res… 2021-04-09 23:15:52 @mboehme_ I'm sure there are tons of committees for this already. But in the end, what actions can you take? Suppose a tenured prof is being racist on Twitter. What can you do if you talk to them and they insist on continuing to do that? 2021-04-09 22:34:03 #5 https://t.co/A0xJQAU7Zc 2021-04-09 22:24:20 @tianyin_xu @SaritaAdve I think measures like these are super important! 2021-04-09 22:08:07 @tianyin_xu sure, but I've learned that this is very common. So I've come to hate the person doing it and not the institution (which might have other wonderful people working for them). For all I know, it might happen tomorrow at UT. 2021-04-09 22:07:04 @sohamsankaran Thats true. The hierarchical, closed-door nature of academia also contributes to this. 2021-04-09 22:06:31 The aim is not to dissuade people from going to grad school. There are certainly positives, which is why I'm still here. But go into this with your eyes wide open. 2021-04-09 22:04:56 I'm sure there is more. Please add as you see fit. Just putting this together is exhausting and depressing (imagine the lived experience for the people who undergo this) 2021-04-09 22:03:41 This is why, if you are a student, it is vital to investigate the particular prof you want to work with (not just the univ). You might think that this kind of stuff doesn't happen in "good" places like Stanford, or Cornell Tech, but these are universal human failings. 2021-04-09 22:00:33 Academia is uniquely structured to protect bad actors (tenure). Often you see that other folks at that university recognize the bad actions, but they are powerless to remove the bad actors. So the bad actors never go away unless they retire, poisoning the place for decades. 2021-04-09 21:52:10 RT @LacePadilla: @jeffrey_heer This isn't a group, but a large barrier for minoritized students is application fees. I've mentored a few 10… 2021-04-09 17:13:27 It's great that folks from Stanford are speaking up! https://t.co/4qzsRRyfZG 2021-04-09 15:16:25 RT @niloufar_s: Marginalized people don't speak out not because of an individual shortcoming. It's structural, and has to do with how much… 2021-04-09 05:38:26 RT @TheGradient: Thank you Shafi Golwasser (Turing Award Winner) for your strong statement in support of the Iranian research community in… 2021-04-08 22:51:54 @samth @johnregehr True, definitely agree! 2021-04-08 22:04:10 @ranyshaware Good point! I wish he would do that too. 2021-04-08 21:52:48 I've said this before, but it beard repeating: the most influential folks in CS are not known for producing a bazillion papers a year. Once they get a good idea, they spend a lot of time in giving talks, etc to spread the idea and make impact. Impact is the end goal! https://t.co/8b3I4Fs6Is 2021-04-08 20:23:50 A number of these things are things I had given up hope on in the US, such as public transportation and gun control 2021-04-08 20:22:51 Super, super impressed with Biden. Wasn't before he was elected, but a big fan now. - competent vaccine distribution - action on infrastructure - most diverse administration - and now, gun control! 2021-04-08 20:20:40 Finally! https://t.co/N6meaRZntE 2021-04-08 20:15:16 RT @DanielMonk91: The spring milkyway arching over @kielder_obs captured around 3:30am yesterday morning! https://t.co/5bSwWuYyXG 2021-04-08 19:48:44 Agreed! Though things are bleak in the short term, things are much, much better than how they were 20 or 50 years ago. We have amazing new voices for diversity and inclusion. Progress is inevitable. https://t.co/Yd4WvOWuAn 2021-04-08 19:46:38 @TweetAtAKK @Stanford @uwashington Yes, I think if a rich alum were to say "I won't give a million dollars to Stanford if they don't fix this", you can bet Stanford would act :) 2021-04-08 19:32:49 Another complication is that boycotting these orgs might be the thing that causes change. But you then have to boytcott the good things the org does as well. 2021-04-08 19:32:14 A complication is that you often have friends inside these organizations who are doing great work and support the same values you do. 2021-04-08 19:30:23 Do you celebrate the good while calling out the bad? Given their actions, sometimes it feels bad if you work with them -- like a betrayal of the people they have hurt. But they are also doing some actions that you want to support. 2021-04-08 19:29:10 For example, in some cases like Google, they do a bunch of things to increase diversity (like offering targeted scholarships) but also treat their minority employees in a shameful manner. 2021-04-08 19:28:04 Oftentimes, the harm is not directed at me, so I am not aware of it initially. 2021-04-08 19:26:56 Folks, what's your mental process for dealing with organizations or folks who do good (such as contributing to the community in some way) while also doing harm in some other way? Increasingly encountering this, and I don't have a great way to think about it. 2021-04-08 16:07:29 RT @EuroSys_conf: #eurosys21 is approaching! Over the next few weeks, we will take you on a quick tour of the exciting papers that will be… 2021-04-08 14:26:39 RT @heidiann360: Do you have an idea about data consistency to share with the distributed systems community? An open-source distributed s… 2021-04-08 01:28:50 This is why I don't have an acm membership. I have a SIGOPS membership. 2021-04-08 01:25:29 It's been a while since @TheOfficialACM has shown any leadership. I wish our SIGs would break away from the ACM. We have awesome people running our SIGs, and independence would free them to take stronger positions. https://t.co/LtMdtnMgf1 2021-04-07 23:39:45 RT @patrickgtraynor: This is a great idea, and something the security community could use more of. Sometimes SoK tracks capture this, but I… 2021-04-07 21:35:05 RT @TweetAtAKK: A start, but this smells like the words of just another for-profit corporation. We need transparency. We need accountabi… 2021-04-07 21:05:12 RT @niloufar_s: YOU GAVE HIM YOUR HIGHEST AWARD!! "does not reflect our views" does not cut it @TheOfficialACM . Here are my experiences… 2021-04-07 15:25:18 RT @mmitchell_ai: Wow. An incredibly influential company/Google shareholder is calling out what Google did to me and @timnitGebru. Let's h… 2021-04-07 14:39:58 RT @Atul_Gawande: What public health officials are pulling off in this pandemic is simply extraordinary. They have not been celebrated near… 2021-04-07 02:07:38 RT @SriramRajamani: If you develop concurrent code, please check out Coyote. It is an #OpenSouce concurrency testing tool based on many yea… 2021-04-06 22:19:14 @koronkebitch @wilcoxjay @TaliaRinger @johnadtoman I'm not a pl person, but I had the same reaction when I used coq a few years ago. I'm glad someone is speaking up! 2021-04-06 19:33:10 RT @SCglobalbrain: Announcing the SCGB Undergraduate Research Fellowship! The SURF Program provides funds for undergrads from diverse backg… 2021-04-06 18:37:43 RT @geomblog: I guess this was inevitable. https://t.co/0klH4xEu9W 2021-04-06 14:36:46 RT @cfiesler: Know some undergrads who might be thinking about pursuing a PhD after? This video is about things you can do while still in u… 2021-04-06 01:47:36 RT @palvaro: I have not shared anything about the recent ullman discourse on twitter. here is something I shared privately with a (slightly… 2021-04-05 23:10:29 AFAIK, nobody from @ACMSIGCOMM has apologized to Sangeetha, or recognized that what happened was not okay. There are many people inside the networking community who disagreed with how @ACMSIGCOMM handled this. This is their chance to hold their elected officers accountable. 2021-04-05 23:09:22 This matter deserves a public response by elected officers, and failing that, at least by people who are actively asking for votes from the community. Silence on this issue is not okay. 2021-04-05 23:08:05 @ACMSIGCOMM @sangeetha_a_j Members up for election: https://t.co/ccSK1LUjyl What happened with Sangeetha: https://t.co/DsKu7Eoe8x 2021-04-05 23:07:14 Hello members of the networking community! @ACMSIGCOMM is having their regular SIG elections. This is a chance for you to ask members up for election about how @sangeetha_a_j was gaslighted, and how they feel CARES and reviewing guidelines should be modified in the future. 2021-04-05 21:56:26 RT @CNS_Advising: Spending at least 2 hours each week outdoors can improve wellbeing and reduce stress. Take a study & 2021-04-05 21:49:26 RT @JCHartzell: It’s not every day @UTAustin ends up on the home page of @NYTimes! Check out the breakthrough UT research that has contribu… 2021-04-05 21:12:29 Hope Cornell Tech and @GMorrisett make this right! It looks like the scholar victimized has records of the conversation, so this should be easy to investigate. https://t.co/ekrm2Lkvt3 2021-04-05 19:37:29 RT @PleaseBeGneiss: [weekdays] me: i am stressed [weekends] me: i am stressed but i can stay up late 2021-04-05 19:06:19 Would love to work with a postdoc through this program. Just added my profile to the opportunity board. Please reach out if you are interested in systems and storage-related research! https://t.co/KDWqtcTUfq 2021-04-05 02:26:22 Steve Swanson and team from @UCSanDiego are putting together an amazing, FREE info session on getting a CS PhD. I'm part of the panel on PhD student life along with @ShriramKMurthi, @emeryberger, @samiramanabi, @ThaleiaDimitra, @takhandipu and others not on Twitter! Register! https://t.co/WuDXoBaOkP 2021-04-05 02:06:28 RT @Samuel0X_: Just the perfect AirPods stand https://t.co/UNhXfXuGCT 2021-04-05 01:46:50 Good thread. All things considered, I'm still in the eliminate the GRE/SAT/standardized tests camp if only because of the ridiculous cost of these things. I would also like undergrad/grad school applications to be free, but one thing at a time. https://t.co/g1DjGDq7XW 2021-04-04 23:12:55 @SuprShastri @pshenoy very interesting, I didn't know there was a separate SIG for this! 2021-04-04 23:10:40 @alugupta Interesting, I didn't know of this paradox before! 2021-04-04 23:08:18 @alpha_convert @vaastav05 Lets just agree to disagree! :) 2021-04-04 23:02:07 Loved this! Considering adding a fun facts page to my website as well :) https://t.co/ZoCcQe5Hbp 2021-04-04 22:50:51 @alpha_convert I'm not sure I know the answers to these questions for any of the techniques we build on? I have no idea what da vinci thought when painting the mona lisa, doesn't it have it's own beauty? 2021-04-04 22:47:28 @SuprShastri I think not everybody will agree on the good and the bad. If the bad impacts some group of people, it seems rude to tell them "bear with this". In any case, we shouldn't be idolizing people, but appreciating their work. 2021-04-04 22:34:35 @alpha_convert I don't think so. If I create a new way to add two numbers, it is not encoding any of my opinions and biases 2021-04-04 22:30:45 @palvaro yup! https://t.co/dN9R93IkT2 2021-04-04 22:28:34 Test of Time awards are already given to papers, not to specific people. So there is some precedent. 2021-04-04 22:27:48 I know its weird to think of a "work" getting an award versus a person. But usually, even when we give the award to a person, it is the work we are celebrating. But works can be unambiguously good or bad from a technical viewpoint, unlike complex humans. 2021-04-04 22:26:17 Maybe we should stop giving awards to people and give it to works instead. "X won this award for his work on Y" vs "Y wins this award for starting the field of Z. Y was written by A, B, and C in 1980" 2021-04-04 22:12:10 @__gparmer Good point! I didn't think about that. It makes sense listening to something locally would be cheaper. 2021-04-04 22:06:12 @__gparmer Indeed. Substituting machine computation for human thought has an energy limit. 2021-04-04 21:43:36 One might ask: "wont the price of energy be a natural barrier"? Bitcoin shows it is not. But even without the scale of Bitcoin, it is worth asking whether we should spend human thought on a task, or have a machine do it at 10x or 100x energy cost. 2021-04-04 21:39:57 But these all assume you *must* run all given applications. "Should this application exist/be run at all" seems like an orthogonal, but important, question. This cuts across CS into policy and governance, but I feel we will need to answer this quickly. 2021-04-04 15:46:06 RT @KendraWrites: My therapist (who is Black) says when it comes to white supremacist institutions, poc spend a lot of time trying to make… 2021-04-04 15:44:36 @TaliaRinger No on both. I think it is a bit arrogant to think I will outsmart them into doing good or less evil. We have lots of real world examples where "good" people tried to do this with "evil" governments with exactly zero good results. Also, the meeting itself may cause harm. 2021-04-04 02:52:47 RT @zerdeve: My academic position is split into five roles: Teaching, research, service, outreach, advising I did not get any training on… 2021-04-03 18:21:13 RT @ACMSIGOPS: #CFP The 12th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems #APSys2021 will take place online. #deadline for submissions is Ma… 2021-04-03 15:12:27 @justinesherry @rubengmartins Congratulations :) 2021-04-03 03:29:04 RT @heydari_be: The list of the accepted artifacts of @EuroSys_conf is out. 58% of the 38 accepted papers! Very impressive results! Hope so… 2021-04-03 03:26:35 RT @copyconstruct: The Eurosys 2021 paper lineup looks amazing! - Virtual Machine Preserving Host Updates for Zero Day Patching in Public… 2021-04-02 23:08:10 RT @cabad3: Happy to announce that you can register to HotCloudPerf 2021 for free! https://t.co/Mr1cGHnZEm We have a great program (https:/… 2021-04-02 23:00:08 RT @samps: @sigplan I’d be honored to represent the PL research community. My main priority, if elected, would be to support and expand SIG… 2021-04-02 22:59:31 RT @danluu: A farewell e-mail, translated from Exec-lang to English https://t.co/eKrJYYF44H https://t.co/dXEcg3rLEu https://t.co/tl3TZSRAb… 2021-04-02 21:47:24 @yixue_zhao @aruna__b Glad it helped :) 2021-04-02 18:56:17 RT @techreview: @e__charpentier and @doudna_lab won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for developing CRISPR gene editing. The prize is the… 2021-04-02 18:34:02 Applies for more than just math! https://t.co/IWLxkW8880 2021-04-02 18:32:55 RT @IsraelCidon: Summer internship @ VMware Research Looking for motivated and independent summer intern. CS/CE/EE PhD candidate with netwo… 2021-04-02 18:32:20 RT @TweetAtAKK: In all my 12 years in research, I have not had a bigger disappointment than this sad—but important—revelation. One day I ce… 2021-04-02 17:52:59 RT @NoahSD: If you're a PhD student, you should have a website. This is a very low-effort way to get a lot more visibility for yourself and… 2021-04-02 17:11:02 @ACMSIGCOMM @sangeetha_a_j I think Ellen Zegura was (is?) co-chair of SIGCOMM CARES, and now is running for SIGCOMM Chair. I think it would be useful to get her public take on what happened. 2021-04-02 17:04:28 So I see that @ACMSIGCOMM folks are up for election: https://t.co/ccSK1LUjyl Would anyone up for election care to comment on the CARES issue and how @sangeetha_a_j was treated? 2021-04-02 16:49:13 RT @awsTO: Isil is amazing. Vote for Isil. 2021-04-02 16:45:30 RT @TweetAtAKK: So many good insights here, thanks for writing this up. I also realized in this past year of increased isolation due to… 2021-04-02 16:44:13 @philipshilane Yes, then the talk would have to cover a lot more stuff like teaching and service. But I think the essentials in this talk remain true: you are going to have to juggle a lot of stuff, and you are going to drop some balls some of the time! 2021-04-02 13:32:01 @rnatella Thank you for inviting me to give the talk :) 2021-04-02 07:39:03 RT @52_41_4d: Please spread the word. Yixin Sun and I are organizing the @ACMSIGCOMM Workshop on Secure Programmable network INfrastruc… 2021-04-02 01:17:48 RT @pengzell: The review process demystified with Great British Bake Off gifs: the definitive THREAD. ** Manuscript submitted ** https:/… 2021-04-01 22:06:15 RT @jackclarkSF: Universities need access to computational infrastructure at equivalent scale as private sector, or I worry about long-term… 2021-04-01 21:46:19 @JohannHauswald Thanks! Yes, students and funding don't always come together! 2021-04-01 20:19:54 @geomblog ICLR 2021-04-01 20:19:38 I think this is rather unintentional, but it makes it seems as if sponsors can "contribute" papers to be accepted. I don't think this is the case. The wording is a bit unfortunate. 2021-04-01 20:18:49 "The generous support of our sponsors allowed us to reduce our ticket price by about 50%, and support diversity at the meeting with travel awards. In addition, many accepted papers at the conference were contributed by our sponors." Hmmm. 2021-04-01 19:07:55 @gautamcgoel Yup! But I think these slides can be done either on keynote or powerpoint, I'm not really using any features specific to each 2021-04-01 18:36:19 @AntonisPs I think all except the second slide apply :) 2021-04-01 18:11:51 Sharing the slides from my talk at the ISSRE New Faculty Symposium in 2020! Please take with pinch of salt, likely does not generalize beyond the US. https://t.co/lXBOymnbon https://t.co/PD37lOU7BU 2021-04-01 13:04:15 RT @aruna__b: Vijay has great tips on twittering in academia. One caution, people are going to say things that you dont agree with (not tal… 2021-04-01 09:16:54 RT @berkeley_ai: BAIR is launching a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) this summer, aiming to work with exceptional students fro… 2021-04-01 02:10:45 RT @pati_gallardo: To not be poor 2021-04-01 00:19:30 RT @laurenceb: I agree with the quote from @sundarpichai . People *do* work best when they feel safe to take risks. That's precisely why Go… 2021-03-31 23:13:17 Had to fill out a form and just realized I had forgotten my office number in the department 2021-03-31 22:12:56 RT @syardi: I got some advice from a mentor a few years ago that has had substantial impact on me: when choosing what service or committee… 2021-03-31 21:19:45 RT @KwasiAMensah: I'll be leaving Google on April 9th, 2021. The Timnit Gebru situation is what lead me to start applying elsewhere. And no… 2021-03-31 20:44:15 RT @adityagp: I also remember the time when I was about to present my first conference talk at ICDT'10 to a room full of database theorists… 2021-03-31 20:42:30 RT @dan_abramov: You can’t argue with beauty. You can’t argue with friendship. You can’t argue with a connection. Demonizing people only wo… 2021-03-31 19:49:40 RT @iwritecoolstuff: honestly and truly https://t.co/DObqCGmcsj 2021-03-31 17:23:01 @aruna__b Unrolled thread in the style of a blog post: https://t.co/9UlGuib3Se 2021-03-31 17:22:06 @threadreaderapp unroll 2021-03-31 17:20:51 @TweetAtAKK @tianyin_xu @bariskasikci @SuprShastri @jsysresearch Agreed! Its great when we can do that :) 2021-03-31 17:20:32 So in summary, there can be a lot of benefit to establishing a social media presence for your research. But it takes work and time, and the results compound over time. Think about it as going around and giving talks -- part of our job as academics if we want to spread our ideas. 2021-03-31 17:18:57 @tianyin_xu @TweetAtAKK @bariskasikci @SuprShastri @jsysresearch I also think having others look at our code and make sure it is usable is very valuable. Often we make assumptions about dependencies etc, which make it hard for a third party to use our code. AE flushes this out! 2021-03-31 17:12:29 My work has benefitted from the increased visibility on Twitter. This has resulted in other opportunities and collaboration because folks heard of my work who otherwise would not have. 2021-03-31 17:11:28 I have benefitted immensely from being on twitter. I have met so many awesome academics I would have never met otherwise. There is a lot of support among twitter academics: we boost each other's work, celebrate successes together, and wallow in misery together :) 2021-03-31 17:09:12 Finally, take some care about what you post on social media. Off-color jokes etc are not a good fit (use a different account). But as long as you take a certain amount of care, you can let your personality come through in your tweets and people will enjoy the authenticity. 2021-03-31 17:07:30 You also don't need to tweet in an un-natural/forced way. Just let your natural enthusiasm for your research come through in your tweets. Talk about how your research colors your perspective or how it affects current events. You can do this without being "fake". 2021-03-31 17:06:00 My suggestion is to make posting on social media about your research a habit. For every accepted paper, make it a habit to write a tweetstorm or blog post about the work. Make it part of the celebration when getting a paper accepted! Over time, this will feel natural. 2021-03-31 17:04:19 So "marketing" gets a bad rep, and a lot of people don't want to be on social media because of this. But I like to think of this as "communicating your ideas". To influence people and have impact, communicating your ideas effectively is essential. 2021-03-31 17:01:31 This takes time. For example, I started this twitter account during the last year of grad school with like 5 followers. Keep posting about your topic, and your following will slowly build over time. 2021-03-31 17:00:30 The long-term strategy is to slowly build your brand as "person with expertise on topic X" over time. A lot of things in academia work based on who knows you and your work -- so making it easy for people to remember that "Ah, Y is an expert of X topic" is good for your career. 2021-03-31 16:58:48 A twitter-specific tip is to add screenshots of results or figures from the paper. Tweets with pictures are read more than tweets with just text. 2021-03-31 16:57:58 Make your code available (if it applies) and link to your paper and the code in the tweetstorm. Make sure the tweets are general -- this is an art in itself, because your twitter audience may not care about the details. Reduce your work down to the most interesting insights. 2021-03-31 16:56:47 So social media is an effective tool for spreading awareness about your work. But it requires some effort, both in the short term and the long-term. Short-term: for each paper that you write, have a tweetstorm and/or blog post about it where you provide the main insights. 2021-03-31 16:55:32 One example is that being featured on @adriancolyer's Morning Paper would get you significantly more eyes on your work, and increase the number of people who are aware of it and would build on it. It was similar to going to a bunch of places and giving talks. 2021-03-31 16:54:09 While giving talks remains the best way to do this, I think being on social media offers a new, cheaper route to getting higher visibility for your work. You get more eyeballs for your work, and you establish yourself as a person with expertise on topic X. 2021-03-31 16:52:51 I think a goal that many academics share is having increased visibility for our work. We don't want to just publish papers, we want folks to read them, be influenced by them, build on them, etc. One traditional way folks did this is by visiting other places and giving talks 2021-03-31 16:50:20 So at the recent CI Fellows panel organized by @aruna__b and team, I got asked about being on social media as an academic, pros and cons, and how to go about doing it. I think this would be widely useful, so a quick thread about this 1/n 2021-03-31 05:10:34 @TweetAtAKK @tianyin_xu 3) There is usually a separate PC with students and researchers who is responsible for evaluating artifacts for accepted papers. This is a separate process that runs after the PC has accepted papers. I helped run this for SOSP in 2019, with @bariskasikci and @SuprShastri 2021-03-31 05:08:45 @TweetAtAKK @tianyin_xu 1) I think it applies broadly, but especially to fields like systems research where our results are tied to complex systems that are hard to reproduce/rebuild 2) We have lots of papers where authors just don't provide any code for systems that took years to build :shrug. 2021-03-31 03:24:56 RT @lynetcha: Excited to announce the launch of the BlackAIR Summer Research Grant Program - providing support for AI Research projects le… 2021-03-31 03:23:24 RT @add_hawk: One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, delivered by a wise person while I was fuming over a parking ticket: "3% of yo… 2021-03-31 03:16:48 RT @steveklabnik: Really liking some of the takes over been seeing about free software. It’s wild that the FSF has failed in its mission so… 2021-03-30 21:45:52 RT @bariskasikci: Sounds like a great idea! Being able to read and understand code quickly is a very useful skill. 2021-03-30 19:16:05 RT @pardoguerra: People dunk on Twitter but it is by far the most efficient way of spanning outside your local academic network and finding… 2021-03-30 18:02:37 @lorisdanto flows or flaws? 2021-03-30 16:42:52 Kudos to the organizers of @EuroSys_conf for making it free to register and participate! https://t.co/HJmVw4ZaeB 2021-03-30 15:34:30 RT @MaryEllenFoster: PLEASE RT: @GlasgowCS is hiring BIG TIME: - Responsible AI (x4) - Socially Intelligent Tech - Machine Learning - Heal… 2021-03-30 15:17:44 Strongly agree. Artifact evaluation is critical to systems research. So thankful for the volunteers who take time to do this! https://t.co/qDOxZj6nPx 2021-03-30 14:28:52 RT @boazbaraktcs: New summer school in theoretical CS. Audience is undergraduates, and particularly those from under-represented groups.… 2021-03-30 14:28:41 A welcome development! Artifact evaluation becoming more and more common in systems and architecture communities! https://t.co/ESglvEyd46 2021-03-30 14:20:06 RT @ACMSIGOPS: The 16th European Conference on Computer Systems @EuroSys_conf will take place virtually this year from 26-28 April 2021. T… 2021-03-30 13:20:56 RT @usenix: April 1 is the deadline for NSDI '21 grant applications! USENIX offers grants for students and for members of underrepresented… 2021-03-30 00:27:37 RT @TensorFlow: Google Summer of Code applications are open! This is a 10 week paid program for students to gain experience with open-so… 2021-03-29 15:43:56 RT @gradydoctor: Figuring out how to say no via email can eat up a LOT of your cognitive and emotional effort. Creating a file with well-wr… 2021-03-29 15:26:19 RT @thegautamkamath: New Horizons in Theoretical Computer Science - A summer school for undergrads interested in TCS! Apply by April 15. Or… 2021-03-29 03:31:24 RT @the_female_lead: How Gender Norms have changed over time Video by @idea_soup https://t.co/taqu2jivHp 2021-03-29 02:01:43 Applies to grad and faculty recruiting as well. For grad recruiting especially, there is a giant population of talented students in places like India: outreach there yields excellent returns! https://t.co/gxiX29cgI1 2021-03-29 01:49:24 RT @DiNunzioE: @mike10010100 @ExistentialEnso Reminds me of Gall's Law. "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved fr… 2021-03-29 00:07:28 RT @TheRealHoarse: Snitch-tagging: Seeing a tweet about someone and then tagging them into your reply so they see it. If the original tw… 2021-03-28 19:44:55 It's so bizarre seeing @timnitGebru get commendation after commendation on her work, while at the same time get harassed by numerous Twitter accounts and gaslighted by Google. https://t.co/ie5DaJ5ogW 2021-03-28 19:14:51 @mdekstrand Don't forget @jsysresearch ! 2021-03-28 14:27:33 RT @lapshiii: Is there an Operating Systems professor or researcher in India willing to mentor a talented and hardworking Dalit woman throu… 2021-03-28 03:27:04 RT @Kidfears99: Daily reminder the insulin I’ve used for 24 years, Humalog, has gone from $21/vial to $275/vial with no changes to the insu… 2021-03-28 02:38:07 RT @rajiinio: These are the four most popular misconceptions people have about race & I'm wary of wading into t… 2021-03-28 02:16:01 RT @helpmeskeletor: Just for the Gates/Bezos fans https://t.co/7QshBwPCzA 2021-03-27 20:05:06 RT @ArtifactsHub_: 1400 year old Ginkgo tree. https://t.co/OErIaadtr1 2021-03-27 19:51:42 RT @heydari_be: Artifact evaluation at @EuroSys_conf has been an interesting experience so far. Having dialogues with authors is tremendous… 2021-03-27 18:55:53 RT @dggoldst: RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH NYC Ideal for those who wish to go to PhD programs in computational social… 2021-03-27 18:37:50 @moyix @reyammer The priming results were scary. I'm glad they don't hold up! 2021-03-27 16:53:57 @johnregehr It's a big read, but I love it. One of the books I learnt a lot from! 2021-03-27 16:52:21 The book in general is a joy to read. It explains things like why sports people get worse when they panic: they switch from the fast system 1 to slow system 2. 2021-03-27 16:51:07 In "Thinking Fast and Slow", the authors explain this is exactly how the brain works. One system sends out quick, but perhaps incorrect, answers. Another system is slow but more likely to be correct. We use the first system a lot. https://t.co/Y2TagDty0C 2021-03-27 14:01:04 RT @JasonAbbruzzese: wow. https://t.co/PFbZxQ8q0o https://t.co/wcaBdYy0Gy 2021-03-27 03:17:52 RT @RobTheRich001: Massive direct action taking place today by farmers in France as they demand fair prices for their produce. 100s of trac… 2021-03-27 02:52:13 RT @jonhoo: Exciting news — I'm going to start doing Rust streams as part of my job at AWS! Nothing will change about the format or content… 2021-03-26 23:06:48 RT @mattgodbolt: An excellent post by a GCC developer, asking to remove RMS from the steering committee. I wholeheartedly agree with Nathan… 2021-03-26 22:17:14 RT @emilymbender: This looks excellent -- and I'm particularly impressed with this innovation, meant to get people thinking about these que… 2021-03-26 21:50:45 RT @usenix: Deadline Approaching! The deadline to apply for a grant for NSDI '21 is April 1. Grants are available for students, including g… 2021-03-26 20:39:03 RT @gannimo: Still deciding where to go for grad school? @ICepfl @EPFL_en offers a top notch research environment, great compensation (paid… 2021-03-26 18:56:30 RT @drvolts: It's wild that the US is having a "debate" over voting rights where the GOP position -- that there's lots of fraud that must b… 2021-03-26 18:32:42 RT @luvcraft: @iphone_venez @mcclure111 @SwiftOnSecurity Civilization Number 420 was destroyed by sideways boat. This civilization had adva… 2021-03-26 16:30:56 RT @page88: For me, the reference point is the 2007 death-threat campaign I got from Ron Paul supporters. It was captained in part by Ron P… 2021-03-26 16:26:37 RT @statesman: That's 304,155 residents. Other #s via @Ozzy_Statesman: -125,294 residents, or 12%, are fully vaccinated -Of those 65 years… 2021-03-26 00:38:07 RT @RedHat: Read Red Hat's statement about Richard Stallman’s return to the Free Software Foundation (@FSF) board. https://t.co/7iqrjIOEUg 2021-03-26 00:29:46 RT @MSFTResearch: Applications are open for this year's (virtual) Microsoft Research Data Science Summer School. Women, minorities, indiv… 2021-03-26 00:23:50 RT @lindsey: This year, @josecalderon and I are organizing the @PLMentoring workshop at @icfp_conference! https://t.co/7bOn24yn62 Please ta… 2021-03-26 00:22:51 RT @mekkaokereke: @catehstn @AliciaBuckles Is likely the best recruiter I've worked with. Example #1 of her ridiculousness: She destroyed… 2021-03-26 00:03:06 If I'm understanding this correctly, these are the vaccines that western nations voted NOT to waive patents on so that the rest of the world could use them. Didn't expect Stanford to be the one releasing them. This timeline is so unpredictable! https://t.co/HHV0NSLXC7 2021-03-25 22:54:23 RT @_beccaharrison: 2021-03-25 22:39:14 RT @JoeStreckert: I made this. It's for you. https://t.co/WU4DzjTSUb 2021-03-25 20:21:44 RT @MadamePratolung: My response to Yoav Goldberg's critique of @timnitGebru and @emilymbender's paper on "Stochastic Parrots" https://t.co… 2021-03-25 19:51:40 RT @mekkaokereke: If you know an incoming college freshman that's planning on studying comp sci, tell them about this summer program: * It… 2021-03-25 19:27:27 We got useful feedback from the reviewers at EuroDW! Some of it was tailored to an early career student, which was excellent. Looking forward to getting more feedback at EuroDW! https://t.co/RZ9q5abrn1 2021-03-25 18:15:44 RT @tomgara: Randomly on this subject, my (Egyptian) wife had never heard of Stonehenge when I mentioned it recently, so I showed her photo… 2021-03-25 17:51:57 RT @nataliabielova: Dear foreign PhD students in the EU: you'll be told that you better do a postdoc outside of your current country and ev… 2021-03-25 17:20:51 Exactly what we are doing with @jsysresearch! Individual reviews are not deanonymized, but the published paper has the list of reviewers associated with it! Reviews are also open via @openreviewnet https://t.co/cAC5zvCTor 2021-03-25 16:44:27 RT @PNaeini: To students who are deciding on what offer to accept or who to work with: prioritize kindness over prestige and academic accom… 2021-03-25 16:12:24 RT @andy_pavlo: This paper has a wild idea from @ImmanuelTrummer. He is using NLP to "read" DBMS documentation pages + advice blogs to auto… 2021-03-25 15:42:46 RT @nprandchill: Countless people are harmed by those who believe CS is "objective" and undergrad CS curricula perpetuate this myth by not… 2021-03-25 14:00:14 RT @esweany: Struggling a lot with being almost 40 and my field expecting that I live like an unattached 25yo. Even two-year positions just… 2021-03-25 13:17:24 RT @lmorchard: Hot take: Spreadsheets are still one of the absolute top genius inventions in computing. Making a computer do something usef… 2021-03-25 02:43:23 RT @mekkaokereke: @vPilotSchenck Dodged a bullet. Rescinding for negotiating is always a red flag. Not going higher is different than resci… 2021-03-24 23:57:49 RT @ShriramKMurthi: Nothing is less surprising than that a conference/journal that has gotten its act together on submission, review, and p… 2021-03-24 23:11:27 @johnregehr The fact that they are adding features to google scholar means they have noticed it exists, which makes me worry 2021-03-24 23:03:38 When I saw Google Scholar was trending, my first fear was they were closing it down. Phew! 2021-03-24 22:52:59 RT @timnitGebru: "A Google spokesperson said that, over the past 15 years, the company has furnished over 6,500 academic and research grant… 2021-03-24 21:25:40 RT @mmitchell_ai: Great article from @rachelmetz on further fallout from @timnitGebru's firing, including @luke_stark turning down the pres… 2021-03-24 18:49:46 @sibinmohan You joke, but I'm pretty sure some tech bro is working on this and getting millions of dollars of VC money to do so 2021-03-24 18:21:19 RT @b0rk: hello! I'd like to convince you to submit a talk to !!Con, the conference I organize! The deadline is April 8 https://t.co/EX2tpE… 2021-03-24 17:39:45 RT @EarlenceF: Exactly! I've paid so much tax but I've never been eligible for these things and continue to be ineligible for faculty fello… 2021-03-24 17:15:16 RT @scottniekum: Google friends: I want to make clear that my recent actions/statements are directed at management wrt the ethics team deba… 2021-03-24 16:59:20 RT @44: well that was easy as shit to abuse - send invite with nasty language - slack emails you w/ the full content of the invite - can't… 2021-03-24 14:46:25 @sohamsankaran At every phd degree granting university (if this is a government program like nsf). 2021-03-24 14:29:32 RT @vaidehijoshi: the best engineers i've worked with are not ones who write "great" code (whatever that means!) but instead are the ones w… 2021-03-24 00:47:50 RT @aditinfinite: So get this:Boulder banned assault rifles. So NRA sued them & 2021-03-24 00:40:37 RT @terry_renaud: a first-year student of mine has just died by suicide. I won't mention their name here, but please spare a moment to thin… 2021-03-24 00:19:47 @jeffbigham @dave_andersen I'm pretty sure this will have it's own set of problems. I stand by the basic idea, but I fully agree it will have to fine tuned and modified with experience. 2021-03-24 00:15:28 @jeffbigham @dave_andersen https://t.co/rbxYI2nXFU 2021-03-24 00:14:39 If # of requested extensions > 2021-03-24 00:12:40 If I ever become super rich, my foundation would basically award grants in this manner. No panel to judge ideas. Just judge based on past record, new profs get a set amount at start to bootstrap. 2021-03-24 00:10:37 There is too much randomness in the reviewing process as it stands. We nit pick and for what? For those who like to write grants, please continue to write them and share them and enjoy. No need to force everyone to do that I think. 2021-03-24 00:08:07 For me there is no question. We spend too much time writing, reviewing, and rewriting grants. I would scrap it and basically give every new prof a certain amount. You demonstrate success and ask for extensions. We trust profs to use the money wisely. https://t.co/IiXgM4mlat 2021-03-23 23:33:19 RT @dave_andersen: I wrote this a year and a half ago, and unfortunately, it is once again as pertinent as it was then. Richard Stallman is… 2021-03-23 23:29:18 RT @bariskasikci: Intel is investing $20B to build two fabs in Arizona + Intel Foundry Services to build as a foundry for others + research… 2021-03-23 23:20:20 RT @zistvan: Our paper on Software-Defined Data Protection (SDP) with @Ponnapalli95 and @vj_chidambaram appeared in @pvldb : https://t.co/L… 2021-03-23 18:31:16 RT @nikitab: Alice wrote a paper. She then paid IEEE to publish it at a conference. Who has the copyright? https://t.co/eBDIhYlxlw 2021-03-23 17:41:36 RT @IsilDillig: As PC chair for PLDI'22, I'm soliciting nominations (incl. self-nominations) for PC members in an effort to reach a broader… 2021-03-23 17:29:38 RT @bradleyvoytek: Congratulations to all who got the NSF GRFP today! To those who didn't: I know it's tough. I'm sorry. I've been there. I… 2021-03-23 15:21:42 Great news! https://t.co/WpmZgLlQb2 2021-03-23 15:06:06 RT @geomblog: OMG finally. We thought we were going crazy when we first started writing this. https://t.co/G5axl5Rtie 2021-03-22 21:32:29 @scottniekum Congratulations Scott! 2021-03-22 21:13:59 RT @jalefkowit: @splattne Back in the 19th century, the whole of downtown Chicago was lifted two feet so they could run sewer pipes underne… 2021-03-22 20:29:32 @alex_ander This is bad news for papers that try to solve multiple problems at once though. Like when we are building a system, we would like to address multiple inefficiencies, but writing and publishing papers like that is hard. 2021-03-22 20:28:38 @alex_ander Yes, this is unfortunately true. Our system is designed really for dissemination of one idea at a time: when you try to bundle multiple things in a paper, it has a tough time at review as well, as it is harder to understand the various ideas and how they fit together. 2021-03-22 20:26:51 RT @alex_ander: @vj_chidambaram my phd advisor liked to say that people will only ever remember one thing from a paper. So if you bundle tw… 2021-03-22 16:06:45 RT @nikitab: A donut a day for keeping COVID at bay! 2021-03-22 15:03:34 RT @mdekstrand: Boosting an old post - I wrote up some thoughts on how to make effective use of startup funds in a US faculty position 2021-03-22 14:55:30 Love this line: "complexity impresses, but prevents impact". It's a tough balancing act to get your paper through the academic review process, while still retaining enough simplicity so that someone would actually use the idea :) https://t.co/UlslqKsNTq 2021-03-22 13:07:40 RT @jenheemstra: Some people say that because I talk about mentoring so much, I must not care about research. Wrong. People do matter m… 2021-03-22 04:24:03 RT @i_am_mel_dev: @mdekstrand @vj_chidambaram https://t.co/waNnkerF7K these are the most common visible colors for many types of colorblind… 2021-03-22 04:19:54 RT @jimstewartson: OK, we’re going to need to talk about this documentary. @HBO this doc is full of disinformation and the treatment of the… 2021-03-22 03:41:25 RT @TaliaRinger: Since the SIGPLAN election is happening and people are discussing it, I want to voice my support for Jeff Foster for SIGPL… 2021-03-22 02:24:02 RT @jayacunzo: This is genius. Amazon Basics is like an invasive species to any industry niche. https://t.co/8la9Y9KhEj 2021-03-22 00:56:18 @Dev14e I'm a big fan of your food pics! 2021-03-22 00:54:05 Follow Dev for excellent food pics and gorgeous photos of Santa Cruz (and occasionally other places)! https://t.co/sFnxS3nXeA 2021-03-21 23:20:10 RT @IsilDillig: As PC chair of the Machine Programming Symposium (now MAPS, formerly MAPL), I wanted to remind everyone that submissions a… 2021-03-21 19:50:58 The greatest live migration ever! Got to use this in my virtualization class https://t.co/fcTHG6Srqk 2021-03-21 18:47:26 @bariskasikci This is what we are trying at @jsysresearch. The root is the same: make acceptance be the default, and make reviews be a source of feedback rather than judgment. If we didn't have to force select N papers for confs, I'd imagine they would be more like workshop reviews. 2021-03-21 14:11:59 RT @jsysresearch: We think it is a bad idea to pretend reviewers (and the system) don't have limits. Much better to acknowledge when we run… 2021-03-21 14:11:57 RT @jsysresearch: The root of our approach is the ability to say no to reviewing a submission. This could happen either because we don't ha… 2021-03-21 14:11:53 RT @jsysresearch: We agree! At @jsysresearch we prioritize quality over scalability. Given a set of reviewers, they can only do N reviews a… 2021-03-21 01:51:06 RT @JynAndTheGinger: I asked my therapist for practical advice on how to battle my perfectionism and she said "actively half ass stuff beca… 2021-03-21 01:03:02 RT @IsilDillig: Fun group picnic on the river! https://t.co/rRGl8dFP2c 2021-03-20 23:44:07 I'm not a very audio person, so maybe because of that I wasn't blown away by the format. Wouldn't want to use this for any technical stuff, would be too hard to follow for me 2021-03-20 23:43:12 Just tried @TwitterSpaces today! Interesting, this must be what Clubhouse is like! - I'm definitely much more likely to join Spaces if someone I follow is hosting one - Joining one in the middle was confusing, I'd like the ability to go back to the start like a YouTube stream 2021-03-20 23:19:10 RT @anjuan: Also, include how many diverse candidates were at each step. By including this information, you'll help to diffuse the view tha… 2021-03-20 23:19:08 RT @anjuan: Whenever you fill a position, publish the number of candidates who responded, how made it to interviews, and who were the final… 2021-03-20 22:39:17 RT @mdekstrand: at some point my students will probably get tired of me showing them this slide. but it continues to be relevant. https://t… 2021-03-20 22:39:08 @mdekstrand Love the slide! I think the two shades of blue may be confusing though 2021-03-20 21:52:52 RT @jackiantonovich: I get a lot of “super mom” & 2021-03-20 20:07:23 RT @freezydorito: team i’ve fixed video calls https://t.co/lw9TvDXs0u 2021-03-20 17:31:36 Thrilled that three awesome female students from my undergrad alma mater (College of Engineering, Guindy) have been admitted for Masters to @UTCompSci :) 2021-03-20 17:00:55 @kareem_carr @alexandglia @raj_raizada Came here to post exactly this! It's a great piece! 2021-03-20 16:12:01 RT @AndyKimNJ: I’ll never forget the feeling when I learned that my own government questioned my loyalty. Before Congress I worked in diplo… 2021-03-20 06:31:50 @TweetAtAKK @IEEEorg @ucsd_cse @HDSIUCSD @UCSDJacobs @UCSanDiego @bksalimi Congratulations! 2021-03-20 00:16:36 RT @mjmichellekim: Why the name thing is so triggering to me and so many other Asians. A thread. I spent my entire adult life in the U.S.… 2021-03-19 22:19:00 RT @bariskasikci: The CFP for the SOSP Student Research Competition is up: https://t.co/UKSf2e3fWj Excited to chair this with @apanda and l… 2021-03-19 19:29:21 @sibinmohan This is very cool! I had not seen the translation before, and did not get how the lyrics fit the scene so well :) 2021-03-19 18:18:03 RT @tsimonite: Another academic boycotts Google (turning down research ) over its treatment of ethical AI researchers Timnit Gebru and Mar… 2021-03-19 18:03:40 RT @ucsd_cse: Meet Priyal. #WeAreCSE https://t.co/qYxZYIyag0 2021-03-19 17:45:38 @KantadoAaveChe Yes, I agree it is easier when its virtual! 2021-03-19 17:44:25 @HilaCodes @georgemporter @secretasianman I solo taught a section at Wisconsin before I graduated and it was really instructive for me too. It was one of the things that convinced me I should go to academia. 2021-03-19 17:43:08 But I will note that I have been uncomfortable in the past with Facebook funding our conferences, and sooner or later we will have to turn a blind eye to many things if we keep accepting such funding. Is it worth it to have a more inclusive and cheaper conference? I don't know. 2021-03-19 17:41:45 So in this sense, doing a PhD sustainably without industry funding is much easier than conducting a conference sustainably without industry funding, especially if we want the conference to be cheap and accessible. I'm not sure what the answer is here. 2021-03-19 17:40:19 The sustainable way to do this might be to increase registration fees 3-5x so that the conference can cover their expenses. This would mean a lot of people wouldn't be able to attend these conferences (esp students without travel scholarships). 2021-03-19 17:38:51 In some cases, the conference itself might cease to exist. It points to systems precarious dependence on the good graces of these companies. I think it is better in other sub-areas, and worse in others such as machine learning. 2021-03-19 17:37:51 Some brave conferences such as @FAccTConference have stopped taking google funding. If systems conferences did this, what would happen? I would imagine travel scholarships for student would cease to exist. Perhaps money for recording talk videos goes away. 2021-03-19 17:36:51 Another add-on: in some areas like systems, the funding of conferences is pretty heavily reliant on industry. For example, Google and Facebook fund pretty much all the major systems conferences. 2021-03-19 17:24:24 @georgemporter @HilaCodes I find questions like these super interesting too :) What should we be doing to better support students going to industry? 2021-03-19 17:23:20 @mdekstrand @geomblog @nadyabliss Yes, my thoughts on this are not clear cut either. There are a few cases where I see a bright line and I make a decision, but its like spots of clarity in a sea of grey. 2021-03-19 17:21:45 @__vishwanath__ Yes, agreed! 2021-03-19 17:20:52 @HilaCodes @georgemporter I say this later in the thread, but I agree TAing has benefits. You learn all the things Hila listed. But how many times do you need to TA? I'm not sure of the additional benefit beyond TAing once or twice. 2021-03-19 17:19:57 @MarcJBrooker I don't disagree with you, but I also feel like there are few jobs that *need* a PhD. You can do a PhD and do many things, but it is unclear you need a PhD for many of these options. 2021-03-19 17:19:06 @MarcJBrooker Agreed, but it is orthogonal to the graduation rate. You produce knowledge regardless of when you graduate. 2021-03-19 17:15:14 However, if you do certain kinds of research (like big ML models), the resources you need at available only at big tech companies like Google and Facebook. In this case, you still need access to these resources, even if you don't need funding itself. 2021-03-19 17:13:58 Some add-ons: I think across CS, the % of students funded entirely on industrial funding is low. It is a bit more common in areas like systems. So its not the majority of our funding, which should make it easier to stop taking it if we wanted! 2021-03-19 17:10:57 @johnregehr @samth I think that is true in UT as well! I meant that compared to other fields, we get a lot of industry funding. 2021-03-19 17:09:34 @geomblog I'd be happy for the government to fund more research! But the government funding also comes with some concerns: for example some folks wont accept DARPA funding. 2021-03-19 17:08:17 @georgemporter It took me six years :) I remember reading somewhere that five years was the average, though I forgot the source. I imagine theory PhDs bring down the average. We just had a PhD student in ML graduate from UT in 4 years! 2021-03-19 17:06:41 So, to summarize, if we wanted to, I think we could all stop taking industrial funding, at the cost of longer and harder PhDs for our students. It will be sustainable. We could collaborate with industry folks, free to speak our minds about actions tech companies take. 2021-03-19 17:04:07 But collaboration and funding are two different relationships IMO. Funding has more of a power structure, while collaboration is flatter, and among equals. And research folks in companies often have no say in decisions upper management takes. 2021-03-19 17:02:03 Another important point is I'm not suggesting we stop collaborating with industry. At least for some kinds of research, industrial collaboration keeps the research grounded and provides new and interesting problems. We will be worse off for lack of collaboration. 2021-03-19 17:00:30 I think it will be worse experience for graduate students in some ways, because not having to TA frees up more time for research. There are benefits to TAing once or twice during your PhD, but it is unclear if TAing more brings additional benefits. 2021-03-19 16:59:15 What do I think about the consequences? I think we are over-producing PhDs. I think we could afford to slow down without having any negative external effects. But it needs to be a group effort. 2021-03-19 16:57:38 You might notice I'm not talking about NSF funding here. NSF funds about 10-15% of proposals, so for the vast majority, some or all of their funding is going to come from elsewhere. 2021-03-19 16:56:31 But if supporting students on TAships became the *norm*, then the external pressure angle would go away. I think this is vital, and otherwise depts will be forced to seek industrial funding just to even the odds with other depts. So it will be hard for just one dept to do this. 2021-03-19 16:54:42 An important angle to this is that if one dept is supporting students on TAs and another dept is supporting students on industry-funded RAs, it is inevitable the students in the second dept will seem more productive, and will graduate faster. This will put pressure the first dept 2021-03-19 16:53:01 Consequence #2 would be that PhDs will take longer. Doing research + TAing at the same time is hard, and will slow down the progress of research. So a student previously graduating in 5 years might take 6 years. This will further limit the # of students that can be admitted 2021-03-19 16:50:56 So what this would mean is that the department would admit *fewer* students, while ensuring there are enough TA lines to support them throughout their PhD. So this is consequence #1. 2021-03-19 16:50:03 But if you are going to fund your PhD students entirely on TAs, there are some complications. First, the number of PhD students you can admit is now tied to your classes. Currently, this is not the case, as NSF and industrial funding is assumed to pay for some % of students. 2021-03-19 16:48:32 How? Through our tried and tested mechanism of teaching assistantships. The PhD student helps teach a class as they do research, and that pays for their tuition and their stipend. This is sustainable, because core classes are always going to be taught, and will always need TAs. 2021-03-19 16:47:04 First, I think CS is rather unique in that we get a lot of industrial funding for our PhD students. Not all fields get this. But what that also points out is that it is totally possible, and feasible, to run PhD programs without taking any industrial grant funding. 2021-03-19 16:45:40 Given that the actions of some tech companies become more and more at odds with the values that academia (at least on paper) has, what does a world without industrial funding look like? What are the pros and cons? A quick 2021-03-19 16:40:12 It takes a lot of strength and clarity to reject an award that you have just received (especially as an Assistant Professor). Kudos to @luke_stark! I hope more academics take principled positions like @luke_stark, @HadasKressGazit, and @scottniekum! https://t.co/kNvGTOrx4L 2021-03-19 13:21:11 RT @zistvan: I wrote a bite-sized primer about #Blockchains for #DatabaseResearchers for a tutorial I'll be holding at @edbticdt2021 -- tak… 2021-03-19 13:08:10 RT @JCornebise: @alienelf @FAccTConference And the "data grant"! Giving grants to pay for higher internet data caps so you can watch a whol… 2021-03-19 13:08:08 RT @alienelf: Still super impressed how @FAccTConference had **heavily** discounted rates for individuals from developing countries. Thi… 2021-03-19 04:20:07 @tdietterich @zeynep I love @zeynep's writing. It's amazing! I discovered her writing back in pre covid times from a games of thrones referenced article, among all things. 2021-03-19 02:02:02 @IsilDillig @crazyuddie Yes, every application was examined by a member of the admissions committee. Plus when students tagged professors they were interested in working with, those profs looked at their applications as well. 2021-03-19 00:01:55 @gmravi2003 sorry yes, tenured woman mathematician 2021-03-18 23:43:57 @johnregehr 68F, sun, coffee! and no yard work also :) Cheers! 2021-03-18 23:21:43 RT @jeanqasaur: During my PhD, I went to a talk where Turing Award winner Shafi Goldwasser said it took YEARS for the first paper on zero-k… 2021-03-18 22:58:00 I did not know that Harvard got it's second tenured mathematician only in 2018! https://t.co/ZTV8jr43Zk 2021-03-18 22:19:24 RT @ranyshaware: This a great list. I will add though that I think the greatest predictor of success as a grad student is choosing the rig… 2021-03-18 22:08:48 RT @MoMoButFaster: My favorite thing about computer vision attack vectors is all the attacks have a Looney Tunes energy like how far are we… 2021-03-18 21:32:42 @TweetAtAKK @dave_andersen It is just a courtesy. When a waiter brings you food in a restaurant, you say "thanks". It is kind of like that. There's no relation to the bar for reviewing. Personally, I like that we thank the reviewers! 2021-03-18 21:29:03 RT @0xabU: @vj_chidambaram @dave_andersen This won a best paper award. https://t.co/JxJSUtaYjo 2021-03-18 19:51:48 RT @ilyasergey: @vj_chidambaram @dave_andersen Giving the credit where the credit is due. https://t.co/mMnzQoAv3L 2021-03-18 19:25:00 @awsTO @dave_andersen Awesome! This is exactly what I was talking about :) 2021-03-18 19:24:32 RT @awsTO: @vj_chidambaram @dave_andersen https://t.co/3xNKW44QvB 2021-03-18 18:52:04 RT @dave_andersen: @vj_chidambaram Thanks! To avoid redundancy in re-saying what I said then, I blogged about this a while ago: https://t.c… 2021-03-18 18:41:54 @dave_andersen I think this is a great, brief way to acknowledge that the paper evolved over (perhaps, multiple) rejections before getting to the form it was finally published in. Students can see that even their favorite papers went through rejection! 2001-01-01 01:01:01