As an uncompensated journal reviewer, I have to say that these look like genuine reviews to me.
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#12There is a famous rejection, not in CS but in econ, that I know of: Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 21st century, winner of the John Bates Clark ('51) and Nobel ('76), and preeminent monetarist was fired by the econ department at the University of Wisconsin Madison for being jewish and too data driven. They did not advertise this fact at the department when I was there =P He went 90 minutes south to Chicago and it seemed to work out for him. It would be nice of UW econ apologized though, even if a bit late.
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#13It would be more interesting to point out who rejected them.
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#14I'm pretty sure this isn't actual rejection notices for these papers, but made up ones in jest.
Yes, and as a result I'm afraid I find the whole joke rather uninteresting.
Historical irony is only fun if it's historical. Otherwise it's just fiction. It's easy to imagine a bunch of philistines who unfairly reject a piece of brilliant work. Indeed, plenty of academics imagine that every day. It's a cliché.
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#15As far as I know the page/brin pagerank paper was also rejected by SIGIR (the main information retrieval conference) before being published in WWW.
Any citation?
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#16This article is taken from Simone Santini[0]'s paper "We are Sorry to Inform You..."[1]. Simone is a major critic of the Semantic Web. Watch this talk by him regarding his opinions on the matter[2].
Also, as some of you might know, Larry and Sergey's paper on the architecture of the Google Search Engine was rejected. It is one of most highly cited tech reports today.
[0] http://arantxa.ii.uam.es/~ssantini/
[1] https://noppa.aalto.fi/noppa/kurssi/mat-1.2991/materiaali/Mat-1_2991_6._rsa-kommentteja.pdf
[2] http://videolectures.net/samt08_santini_cnod/Re: We are sorry to inform you
#17The link is the text of an article [1] by Simone Santini that appeared in:
Computer, Volume 38 Issue 12, December 2005
It's a parody piece, although the author declared that "Many of the sentences that I use in the article are from actual reviews." (quoted by B. Meyer review in [2])
[1]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1106763 [2]: http://bertrandmeyer.com/2009/08/14/rejection-letter-classic...
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#18There is a famous rejection, not in CS but in econ, that I know of: Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 21st century, winner of the John Bates Clark ('51) and Nobel ('76), and preeminent monetarist was fired by the econ department at the University of Wisconsin Madison for being jewish and too data driven. They did not advertise this fact at the department when I was there =P He went 90 min…
err 20th century?
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#19I don't think these reviews are real, but similar things have happened. One example: Stephen Cook was denied tenure at Berkeley (before the NP-completeness paper). Another: Svante Arrhenius barely passed his PhD defence (before getting a Nobel prize for the same work).
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#20As far as I know the page/brin pagerank paper was also rejected by SIGIR (the main information retrieval conference) before being published in WWW.
Any citation?
"In early 1998, Page submitted his first paper, an overview of the PageRank algorithm, to the Special Interest Group on Information Retriviel of the Association for Computing Machinery (SIGIR-ACM). But the paper was rejected. One peer reviewer wrote of the paper, "I found the overall presentation disjointed…. This needs to focus more on the IR issues and less on web analysis."