I mentioned physics pecifically because it is the progenitor of this approach.
> CS allows authors to easily and openly distribute our papers by putting them up on arvix and our webpages which doesn’t seem to be true of physics journals.
ArXiv started as a physics preprint server so I don’t understand how you could claim that physicists don’t have such a system. And of course WWW and HTML came from physics, not computer science.
More to the point, though physics also has conferences, modern physics developed In the early 20th mostly without them travel was more complex in those days. The modern conception of journals dates to this period (and cf my comments about Physics Letters).
Conferences as experienced in CS are even less vital in mathematics than in Physics.
None of which is to claim physicists are somehow superior in some way! I’m just saying that it’s ironic that CS, of all disciplines, has a social model more like the social science than the physical sciences. Perhaps that is what should change, and there are good wxetant models to follow.
I mentioned physics pecifically because it is the progenitor of this approach.
> CS allows authors to easily and openly distribute our papers by putting them up on arvix and our webpages which doesn’t seem to be true of physics journals.
ArXiv started as a physics preprint server so I don’t understand how you could claim that physicists don’t have such a system. And of course WWW and HTML came from physics, not computer science.
More to the point, though physics also has conferences, modern physics developed In the early 20th mostly without them travel was more complex in those days. The modern conception of journals dates to this period (and cf my comments about Physics Letters).
Conferences as experienced in CS are even less vital in mathematics than in Physics.
None of which is to claim physicists are somehow superior in some way! I’m just saying that it’s ironic that CS, of all disciplines, has a social model more like the social science than the physical sciences. Perhaps that is what should change, and there are good wxetant models to follow.