What Makes a (Graphics) Systems Paper Beautiful
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
saved by
related reading
- How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research)nicholas.carlini.com
- A Survival Guide to a PhDkarpathy.github.io
- Everything I know about good system designseangoedecke.com
- Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods – Something Similarsomethingsimilar.com
- PowerPoint Presentationcs.ryerson.ca
- behind the scenes of paper writingsophielwang.com
- Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Whence Systems Research? - by Ben Reinhardtparpa.substack.com
- How to Read a Paperweb.stanford.edu
- Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Mathcs.cmu.edu
- Classic Systems Papers – Mark's Musingsverber.com
- Building a better memory systemmichaelnotebook.com