Academia

The conference NeurIPS instituted a new reviewing policy this year:

“In order to cope with the growing number of submissions, this year we will adopt an “early desk-reject” process involving only Area Chairs and Senior Area Chairs. Area Chairs will be responsible for…

You may recall the origin of the holiday Festivus in Seinfeld, as described by Frank Costanza:

FRANK: Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had — but so did another man. As I rained blows…

The P vs. NP problem has been singled out as one of the most challenging open problems in mathematics/computer science, and carries a $1M prize for the first correct solution. It is considered by many to be the single most important open problem in computer science. It was first…