If you study the first pic in the article where he shows the installed dome from above, you can see that this is exactly what he did.
See http://209.10.40.245/dome/images/IMG_1244c.jpg
Authors of articles published in IEEE Journals and Conferences already pay for the article to be published.
In IEEE Journals this comes as a flat fee per page and an extra fee. "After a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author's company or institution is asked to pay a charge of $110 per printed page to cover part of the cost of the publication." (Some Journals, depending on the Journal; is it IEEE or IEEE Computer Society make this mandatory and some make it obligatory). Reference http://www.computer.org/tc/author_new.htm
There are also extra fees for each page beyond a certain number of pages. For example, for IEEE Transactions on Computers the page limit is 10 pages for $110 per page. Every extra page beyong 10 (up to 16) is charged $200 per page (this is a mandatory fee).
Conferences are similar. When you publish at a conference you must register for the conference and guarantee you will be there to present for it to be published in the proceedings. Typically the conference registration fee helps pay for the publication of the papers. Some of these conferences charge upwards of $400-$450. (I am attending IPDPS next month and I paid $200 for a student registration; my professor is paying $505.)
So authors already pay (or their institution pays) for publication of their articles. If these fees are increased it will be harder for authors to publish. I already paid over $500 to register for and present a paper at FPL'2004 (fpl.org) out of my pocket. I will end up paying $200 for the IPDPS registration and probably another $250 for the hotel. This time my school has already paid for some other expenses.
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If you study the first pic in the article where he shows the installed dome from above, you can see that this is exactly what he did. See http://209.10.40.245/dome/images/IMG_1244c.jpg
Authors of articles published in IEEE Journals and Conferences already pay for the article to be published.
In IEEE Journals this comes as a flat fee per page and an extra fee. "After a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author's company or institution is asked to pay a charge of $110 per printed page to cover part of the cost of the publication." (Some Journals, depending on the Journal; is it IEEE or IEEE Computer Society make this mandatory and some make it obligatory). Reference http://www.computer.org/tc/author_new.htm
There are also extra fees for each page beyond a certain number of pages. For example, for IEEE Transactions on Computers the page limit is 10 pages for $110 per page. Every extra page beyong 10 (up to 16) is charged $200 per page (this is a mandatory fee).
Conferences are similar. When you publish at a conference you must register for the conference and guarantee you will be there to present for it to be published in the proceedings. Typically the conference registration fee helps pay for the publication of the papers. Some of these conferences charge upwards of $400-$450. (I am attending IPDPS next month and I paid $200 for a student registration; my professor is paying $505.)
So authors already pay (or their institution pays) for publication of their articles. If these fees are increased it will be harder for authors to publish. I already paid over $500 to register for and present a paper at FPL'2004 (fpl.org) out of my pocket. I will end up paying $200 for the IPDPS registration and probably another $250 for the hotel. This time my school has already paid for some other expenses.