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Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by pbzcnepu »

throwawayiionqz wrote: post #120
pbzcnepu wrote: post #97

some of us made a big effort to get anyone at the IEEE or ACM to care about this ISCA'19 incident. The initial investigation by Torrellas was run mostly by ISCA insiders with conflicts of interest, and mostly seemed to be a stall tactic. They did eventually open a new investigation. ISCA'20 should really have been cancelled until this was resolved. See a timeline of our attempts to get anyone at ACM/IEEE to care: htt…

I am wondering if the NSF program officers responsible for overseeing the grants should be contacted as they would be in power to make the University and the PIs accountable and/or start their own investigations. They can be easily found in grant webpages, eg https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900713

The program officers were contacted, leading to the OIG being notified on 6 December 2019 and supposedly an investigation was openened, but we have not heard anything back since then.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by m0zg »

hoistbypetard wrote: post #115
m0zg wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not even in "small" fields. A lot of the time any new work is just a further development of previous work by the same author. So if you're well read in your field, that "double blind" peer review is not blind at all.

The cure to that (reviewers who are not well read in their field) seems far worse than the disease.

I'm not saying we need a cure. I'm just saying we can all stop pretending that those reviews are "double blind" to the extent currently assumed by many.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by uluyol »

jjjjjj__ wrote: post #9

Fraud? Are you kidding me? I have publication in MICRO with a very famous institution in US. (Top 20). You know how my professor published his paper in MICRO? Relationship! Relationship! Relationship! As a graduate student coming from a third world country, I totally lost my hope on the system when I saw a venue as famous as MICRO, is only based on relationship. Don’t judge me, who can I report it? I am graduate stud…

If you have concrete issues to report, I think it would be best to talk to your department head and probably look for a new advisor. If that's not working, the college.

Dealing with these problems is hard, switching advisors is difficult, but, I feel sticking with a bad advisor is much more difficult long term. Hopefully you can figure something out. I do not envy the position you are in.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by nelaboras »

jjjjjj__ wrote: post #9

Fraud? Are you kidding me? I have publication in MICRO with a very famous institution in US. (Top 20). You know how my professor published his paper in MICRO? Relationship! Relationship! Relationship! As a graduate student coming from a third world country, I totally lost my hope on the system when I saw a venue as famous as MICRO, is only based on relationship. Don’t judge me, who can I report it? I am graduate stud…

Maybe a stupid question, but do you know whether it is really true that it only got publisher due to his relationships? I can imagine some professors also have an interest to convince students that they are 100% in their power (or at least that the student needs them). It might well be that you got published for quality and he wasn't really needed but lies/makes a bit of a show so that you will add him as co-author or similar.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by tnecniv »

saltedonion wrote: post #102
tomato2juice wrote: post #4

Looks like the (sad) background story is here : https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/the-hidden-story-behind-th... Posting here instead of a new submission

Is there a follow up to this story? Did the professor get investigated ?

I did some digging. It seems the prof is still under investigation but is currently active at his institution.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by tnecniv »

softwaredoug wrote: post #76
jjjjjj__ wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not at all. The idea maybe was good (in long term with solid work). But none of our code were working, or works right now for that matter. Nothing works . And I am not saying they does not work as research codes tend to be ugly. I am saying that in literal sense of the word. It was totally wishful story glued together with beautiful sentences, published via a serious relationship in MICRO. There are sentences in that…

It does seem the prevailing writing style of academia is a big part of the problem. Papers a lot of time leave the reader feeling stupid. “Surely there’s wisdom here!?” the reader hopes. Maybe if papers taught the underlying concepts in a clearer, more transparent way we’d get better, more reproducible science

That's really up to the reviewers. I've definitely been told that I need to clarify different parts of my paper in my reviews.

Ultimately, peer review is only as good as your peers. If they won't call out bullshit, then bullshit gets published.

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by choppaface »

tnecniv wrote: post #109

I want to point out that, as far as I can tell, the advisor is still active at the university [1] and even presented the questionable paper at the conference [2]. This is pretty disturbing and I haven't found any more info on what the school has done outside some vague internal investigation [3]. Does anybody know if the university is actually conducting a thorough investigation and whether or not it's ongoing? As a…

There's also hard evidence of misconduct in the conference review software, which directly contradicts the "investigation" from the conference chairs: https://twitter.com/xexd/status/1222671193527861249

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by desi_ninja »

ISL wrote: post #75
ridv wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know how people are protesting the structural policing systems in the US in part because the systems seem like they're built to protect police instead of holding them accountable? It's been my experience that tenure provides something similar in academia. As a lowly grad student, even in the most outrageous of cases, you aren't likely to succeed in bringing these issues to light. It would take tremendous determin…

There is an option C): Switch advisors. As long as the department is sympathetic to the student's complaint, it will accommodate the switch if it can. Furthermore, there is increasing attention to providing "Faculty Mentors" -- people of faculty rank who are emphatically not the student's advisor, tasked in that capacity with advocating for the student's needs alone. Look within the University for other outlets for y…

as international students, there are far more limitations, paperwork and deadlines than just switching advisors. also, the problem of heading. angry one professor , and their clique will be angry at you

Re: Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

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Post by throwgeorge »

tnecniv wrote: post #109

I want to point out that, as far as I can tell, the advisor is still active at the university [1] and even presented the questionable paper at the conference [2]. This is pretty disturbing and I haven't found any more info on what the school has done outside some vague internal investigation [3]. Does anybody know if the university is actually conducting a thorough investigation and whether or not it's ongoing? As a…

i'm a phd student at uf (in cs not ece) and from what i can tell nothing has been done to discipline tao. there were mutterings when his student committed suicide but nothing since then.
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