dga-dave

Hi, James - if you can turn the time machine back to when you were first starting to attend CS conferences and do a bit of extrapolation: What was the experience like as a young black grad student, especially in ways that might differ from a young highly-represented grad student, and what changes to the conference experience might have improved that? Corollary: Are you a fan or non-fan of "diversity"-style workshops and addenda to the conferences?

(Why the hell am I asking you this on reddit instead of in person, I wonder? Don't answer that, it's rhetorical; I've never thought to do so until you invited the question. :-)

Beall's list of predatory "open access" journals is a good start:

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

But when you're researching something - I find it easier to filter first by positive inclusion rather than excluding the crap. You can find, e.g., Microsoft Academic Search's ranking of CS journals/conferences (it's not particularly accurate, of course, because such rankings are subjective -- but the difference between a conference in the top 10 in its area and a fake journal is large, so it's quite useful for this purpose). http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=4&topDomainID=2&subDomainID=0&last=0&start=1&end=100

awesome - thanks! (This makes me believe that the increasing trend towards having even-larger poster sessions is also good -- it's, at minimum, one more thing on the list of possibilities to chat about for networking.)