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What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful

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Addendum: I've added a few additional tips for conference papers chairs, papers committee members, and papers sorters. "SIGGRAPH hates systems papers," I've heard frustrated researchers say. During a SIGGRAPH PC meeting, I've heard a committee member disparagingly comment: "I don't believe there is novelty here, maybe it's a good systems paper." And from a recent SIGGRAPH post-rebuttal discussion post: "This is clearly a systems paper rather than a research contribution." This is not an issue of whether systems research has a place in the graphics community. (It does!) Rather, these comments suggest that both graphics papers authors and reviewers hold a misunderstanding of the intellectual value of graphics systems research. Understanding the key principles and values of systems research thinking is important to system designers that wish to communicate their findings and for reviewers evaluating those results. Improving this understanding will make the graphics community better equipp

What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful Kayvon Fatahalian , Stanford University Addendum: I've added a few additional tips for conference papers chairs, papers committee members, and papers sorters . "SIGGRAPH hates systems papers," I've heard frustrated researchers say. During a SIGGRAPH PC meeting, I've heard a committee member disparagingly comment: "I don't believe there is novelty here, maybe it's a good systems paper." And from a recent SIGGRAPH post-rebuttal discussion post: "This is clearly a systems paper rather than a research c

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