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Quitting the Graphics Field Over SIGGRAPH

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the instead-of-fighting-for-change dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Professor at Stony Brook university has quit the field of computer graphics. He claims too much importance is given to one particular conference (SIGGRAPH) and that acceptance of papers in this conference has too much importance in terms of the careers (tenure, grants etc) of a researcher. Furthermore he claims the paper reviewing for SIGGRAPH is not fair and bright and novel papers are summarily rejected because they are either not from a 'hot' field or because the reviewer does not understand the concept and is not willing to spend time understanding it. He has started a discussion forum which has comments from several big names in the field including the papers chair of SIGGRAPH 2007."

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  1. Crybaby Sally by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There once was a boy who was in charge of watching sheep. He did his job so well that no wolves ever came around. It was very boring, day in and day out watching the sheep, making sure they didn't get eaten by wolves.

    One day he decided that in order to make things more interesting and himself more important, he would fake a wolf attack. He yelled at the top of his lungs "Wolf! Wolf!" and the villagers came running to help chase away the wolves. But when the villagers arrived, no wolves were to be seen.

    "It's a good thing I was able to chase those wolves away!" the boy exclaimed. The villagers agreed and patted the boy on the head and congratulated him on a job well-done.

    The next week the boy did the same thing. "Wolf! Wolf!" The villagers came running, but no wolf was to be found. They thanked the boy and went back to their homes.

    A week later, the boy tried his little ruse again. This time only half the villagers came, and when they saw there was no wolf, they went home.

    The next week a real wolf came. The boy cried "Wolf! Wolf!" But this time no one came. They just assumed that the boy was lying again.

    The wolf helped himself to the sheep and the poor little boy.

    The moral of the story is: Don't be a fucking dumbass and end your career because you've got a bee in your fucking bonnet. Don't wear bonnets.