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So how do you explain the information in the OP?
I don't know enough about the specific situation of computer science at the University of Florida to add anything useful. It sounds like a serious scandal.
I'm gonna get enemies for that .... But let's face it: the Academia peer review process is pretty rotten. - Many organisations could not care less about whatever crap you publish as long as you publish. And if possible a lot. - Many journal's reviewers are friend of friends and you can often easily guess their names, even in double blinded review. - Many reviewers care more about you quoting their own paper than givi…
My experience is different. Peer review is far from perfect but: * Most of my papers have had thoughtful comments. Typically, they improved the paper, sometimes a lot. * I have very rarely been asked to quote a specific paper from a specific author. Of course, pointing out important references that the paper has missed is part of peer review, so this would not necessarily be evidence of corruption. * There are loads…
Nearly all reviews were superficial, not a single review ever found any technical flaw, even when some were discovered later. The acceptance recommendations seem to be governed by the overall impression the reviewer had from the paper and not by any factual points they make in the review. This manifested in getting 5 reviews at one conference, where all reviewers made nearly the same points in their review: all about the presentation of the paper. The paper received all of the five recommendations: Accept, weak accept, borderline, weak reject, reject. (The most critical and useful with a small correction of one formula was the "Accept" review.)
Many reviewers also leave the impression they didn't read the paper in full or at all, or ran out of time while for the review, so looked for a reason to reject the paper and didn't look any further.
Note: I am not saying my papers should have been accepted, 2 had serious issues I glad I discovered later! I also had a few very useful reviews to improve the presentation of my paper.
I just want to note that nothing caused suicide other than his decision to kill himself. I don't condone suicide as a method of protest. The damage to the family and the person are too severe. He talked about another world in his letter. That doesn't happen and I hope he meant that metaphorically, because otherwise he really did not know what he was doing. I wish media stopped reporting on suicides except in statisti…
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>Now, I have my dream job, my dream location, my own damn house, and my family. -Whole thing feels like a dream I might wake up from if I am not careful... and I feel totally weighed down when it comes to speaking up in a way I would have never countenanced a few years ago. I'm not at this point yet, but reading this makes me wonder why any employer would ever prefer younger employees with nothing tying them down, fo…
Having to pay less is pretty major if you are the one doing the paying.
I want to express sympathies in a particular way: When I had a job I didn’t want, in a city i didn’t want, no kids, no wife, and prospects abounding, it was easy to speak truth to power. I did it, and I was right technically, businesswise, and morally. What a win...(?) Now, I have my dream job, my dream location, my own damn house, and my family. -Whole thing feels like a dream I might wake up from if I am not carefu…
>Now, I have my dream job, my dream location, my own damn house, and my family. -Whole thing feels like a dream I might wake up from if I am not careful... and I feel totally weighed down when it comes to speaking up in a way I would have never countenanced a few years ago. I'm not at this point yet, but reading this makes me wonder why any employer would ever prefer younger employees with nothing tying them down, fo…
I want to express sympathies in a particular way: When I had a job I didn’t want, in a city i didn’t want, no kids, no wife, and prospects abounding, it was easy to speak truth to power. I did it, and I was right technically, businesswise, and morally. What a win...(?) Now, I have my dream job, my dream location, my own damn house, and my family. -Whole thing feels like a dream I might wake up from if I am not carefu…
Totally understandably so. However I think that it is also a matter of perception: If we view it as a matter of living the dream while some intrusion might endanger that dream, surely minimizing the damage done to the dream is a logical consequence. But what if the intrusion stops making your job a dream job? I was in a similar situation where a superior demanded that I breach the trust our users had in the privacy o…
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"I was right technically, businesswise, and morally." ... and in third place, morality. And now lost in the distance. I'm not a Christian, but this is worth considering by everyone: "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?"
> I'm not a Christian, but this is worth considering by everyone: >"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?" This would only affect people who assume “they” have an immortal component, i.e. a soul.
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"I was right technically, businesswise, and morally." ... and in third place, morality. And now lost in the distance. I'm not a Christian, but this is worth considering by everyone: "For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?"
> I'm not a Christian, but this is worth considering by everyone: >"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? Or what will a man give as an exchange for his soul?" This would only affect people who assume “they” have an immortal component, i.e. a soul.
Conscience doesn't really die overnight (and this is from my experience of living in a corrupt society), it's a death-by-a-thousand-cuts situation. The beginning is "Come on, everyone is doing it" and you can guess the end.
From the suicide note: > Considering that this will have an impact on my career in the future and my reputation in the area of Computer Architecture, my future life will be worse than death and I will be totally in a dilemma. Maybe we also need to change academic culture to allow people to confess academic fraud, receive punishment and than be forgiven and continue academic careers. Currently once you started, there…