During the business meeting of 25th LICS in Edinburgh the program
committee chair informed that all contributions from USA (or USA and
Canada) have been rejected. This was a big surprise to many
participants of the meeting, since we all highly value our American
colleagues.
After the meeting I discussed this problem with some of my American
friends, and I have learned that for many of them LICS is too far
away from computer science, that they prefer to submit logic related
papers to conferences that are closer to the mainstream of computer
science such as POPL or PODS. To get promotion they have to convince
their department chairs, that the research they are doing in logic
is relevant for computer science.
In my talk I plan to discuss how far the research of our community
is carried away from computer science and whether we should do
something about that.
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