Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] om>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>well, a copy of "the bell technical journal" with the first >>paper describing unix is on my shelf. > >On my bookshelf too. > >I believe this was more of a "technical reports" series >than a referreed journal since it contained only

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-29 Thread Michael . Dillon
>well, a copy of "the bell technical journal" with the first >paper describing unix is on my shelf. On my bookshelf too. I believe this was more of a "technical reports" series than a referreed journal since it contained only work being done by the one organization. A lot of universities and

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:18:59 -0600 "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Golding writes: > > > >>Slightly off-topic... > >> > >>Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish > >>inte

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
> > What ever happened to the blue, paper-back-book-sizes > > periodical, "Proceedings of the Bell Laboratories" or > > summatlikethat? > > > > (H...I wonder which library _those_ are buried in.) > > well, a copy of "the bell technical journal" with the first > paper describing unix is

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:29 PM +0100 3/26/04, Randy Bush wrote: > What ever happened to the blue, paper-back-book-sizes periodical, "Proceedings of the Bell Laboratories" or summatlikethat? Bell System Technical Journal. > (H...I wonder which library _those_ are buried in.) well, a copy of "the bell tec

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Randy Bush
> What ever happened to the blue, paper-back-book-sizes > periodical, "Proceedings of the Bell Laboratories" or > summatlikethat? > > (H...I wonder which library _those_ are buried in.) well, a copy of "the bell technical journal" with the first paper describing unix is on my shelf. ran

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Golding writes: Slightly off-topic... Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Golding writes: > >Slightly off-topic... > >Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish >interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to >the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of pub

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-26 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:45 AM + 3/25/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take precedence over content. Vijay hit it on the head - have we all been foolish by trying to put our collect

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-25 Thread sgorman1
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:27 am Subject: Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish > > >> Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed > journal>> submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend > to take >

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
>> Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal >> submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take >> precedence over content. >Attention to sidebar on page 192 of the Columbia Accident >Investigation Board report entitled "Engineering by Viewgraphs": >ht

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-25 Thread Michael . Dillon
>> Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal >> submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take >> precedence over content. >Vijay hit it on the head - have we all been foolish by trying to put our >collective expression of service provider best practi

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Irwin Lazar wrote: For what it's worth, in many cases, you can also put your ideas into an Internet-Draft (www.ietf.org). You don't get the "publish or perish" brownie points from those (at least as far as I know), but at least you have a way of sending out the idea. May

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
[ mark had posting problems and asked me to post for him ] To: Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Mark Allman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: "Matthew F. Ringel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish We

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Irwin Lazar
>> I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. >> Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of >> journals obsolete? :) > > My favorite journal is the NANOG slide presentations. They are > nice abstracts of someone's work, much better than th

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Golding writes: > >Slightly off-topic... > >Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish >interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to >the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of pub

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Rob Nelson
I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of journals obsolete? :) Don't forget SysAdmin, altho it's waning as its page size has continuously decreased. http://www.samag.com/ Rob Nelson [EMAIL P

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
At 11:33 AM 3/24/04, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: vijay gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal > submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take > precedence over content. Attention to sidebar on page 192 of the Colu

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Robert A. Hayden
It is my firm believe that if a Powerpoint presentation was to say "The Ocean is made of Yogurt", it would be believe by management. I believe next time I give a presenation I will put that line in. - Robert On 24 Mar 2004, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > > vijay gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Joe St Sauver
Hi, #Powerpoint has its place, but it's not really a #format for the distribution of research information. The information #density just isn't there. That, and without the audio of the #presentation to go along with the slides, most of the actual content #is lost. That doesn't *have* to be the

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
vijay gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal > submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take > precedence over content. Attention to sidebar on page 192 of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report entit

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
> I believe that NANOG should have an actual journal of some kind, > likely with issues on a thrice-yearly basis. I'd wager that most > NANOG presentations have a paper's worth of information backing > them. researchers publish in real journals with academic peer review, and would get no brownie

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew F. Ringel
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: > > Slightly off-topic... > > Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish > interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to > the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do the

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/24/04 9:50 AM, "vijay gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: > > > [ various journals ] > > >> Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of >> journals obsolete? :) > > > Powerpoints have a hard time m

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Randy Bush
>> Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of >> journals obsolete? :) > Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal > submission, because with the powerpoint, soundbites tend to take > precedence over content. Power corrupts; Powerpoint corrup

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread vijay gill
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 03:01:56PM -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: [ various journals ] > Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of > journals obsolete? :) Powerpoints have a hard time matching the depth of a refereed journal submission, because with the powerpoint,

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Michael . Dillon
>I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. >Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of >journals obsolete? :) My favorite journal is the NANOG slide presentations. They are nice abstracts of someone's work, much better than the traditiona

RE: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-23 Thread Bora Akyol
ACM SIGCOMM CCR is a good venue to publish early results of research and the editorial process is quick.

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-23 Thread Scott Weeks
IEEE, but it's a little on the expensive side if you pay your own dues... http://ieee.org/portal/index.jsp http://www.comsoc.org/ http://www.comsoc.org/~ni/ scott On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Daniel Golding wrote: : : Slightly off-topic... : : Most technical fields have standard journals that they

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-23 Thread Scott Whyte
Daniel Golding wrote: Slightly off-topic... Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of publications exist in the networking/carrier

Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Golding
Slightly off-topic... Most technical fields have standard journals that they use to publish interesting findings and new ways of doing things. Everything from Nature to the JAMA. Here's the question for the group: Do these sorts of publications exist in the networking/carrier/internetworking spac