From newtonhanes at hushmail.com Wed Apr 3 00:59:30 2013 From: newtonhanes at hushmail.com (newtonhanes at hushmail.com) Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:59:30 -0400 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20130402225930.83A8A10E2D3@smtp.hushmail.com> We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study on the world?s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP ( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia, USA. We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from that paper include: (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or inheritance (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia (Chairman of WORLDCOMP) rich. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts to submit a paper to WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP?s proceedings since 2011 due to its fakeness. See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for of one of the conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. See http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known researchers about WORLDCOMP. The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from ?scientific? to ?other? (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. See the comments http://www.mail-archive.com/tccc at lists.cs.columbia.edu/msg05168.html of a respected researcher on this. Better not to have a paper than having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is a money making business, using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published in WORLDCOMP?s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. That is, the puppet does all his best to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia?s) pockets. Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP until 2012) has refused to provide the venue for WORLDCOMP?13 because of the fears of their image being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP?s fraudulent activities. WORLDCOMP?13 will be held at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The paper submission deadline for WORLDCOMP?13 was March 18 and it is extended to April 6 (it will be extended many times, as usual) but still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP?s website is just an email address! What bothers us the most is that Prof. Hamid Arabnia never posted an apology for the damage he has done to the research community. He is still trying to defend WORLDCOMP. Let us make a direct request to him: publish all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. We also request him to look at the Open Challenge at http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to stop this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists and people. We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet?s activities http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links. From richard.j.zak at gmail.com Fri Apr 12 21:28:41 2013 From: richard.j.zak at gmail.com (Richard Zak) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:41 -0400 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] American Python programmer seeking to relocate Message-ID: Greetings everyone! I'm wondering if there might be any companies in or around Edinburgh interested in hiring a Python programmer from the States. I've had a lot of experience with Python programming on Linux, including PyCUDA, graphical interfaces with GTK, and mpi4py to run Python jobs on clusters. I've also written Python modules in C/C++. I'm currently interested in seeing what employment opportunities exist around Europe and the UK. Thank you. -- Regards, Richard J. Zak http://www.linkedin.com/in/rjzak -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk Mon Apr 22 11:35:59 2013 From: mark.smith at practicalpoetry.co.uk (Mark Smith) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:35:59 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Python Dojo - Tomorrow! Message-ID: Dear Python Edinburgh, We've been planning to organise talks and other events for a while, but frankly, I haven't got around to it. Fortunately, FanDuel, one of the larger Python shops in Edinburgh has offered to help, so tomorrow instead of the usual pub meetup, we'll be running a Dojo at FanDuel's offices[1], starting at the usual meetup time of 6:30pm. The plan is to follow something similar to the format of the London Python Dojo: 1. Free beer and pizza, courtesy of FanDuel. 2. Programming tasks are proposed and voted on. 3. Attendees choose/divide-into teams to work on the winning task. 4. The teams competitively attempt to solve the problem in the most efficient and or fun way possible for about an hour and a half. 5. Each solution is presented to everybody, and a vote is taken as to which solution is the 'best'. 6. There are no prizes - you already got free beer and pizza! To read more about what to expect look here: http://ntoll.org/article/how-to-run-an-awesome-code-dojo Afterwards we'll probably wander in to one of the selection of nice pubs in the area. 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Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for other ways our user group can help our members. --Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at no-surprises.co.uk Sun Apr 28 19:09:08 2013 From: michael at no-surprises.co.uk (Michael Maclean) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:09:08 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Tech Talk Event at STV this week Message-ID: Hi, We're running a new developer event this week at STV's offices in Glasgow. For this first event, we'll have Chris Molizian from Basho coming up to talk about Riak, the open source distributed database. This will also be the first meetup of what we hope will become the Scottish Riak user group, to be formed on the night. We'll also have Dale Harvey from Mozilla, talking about PouchDB - a JavaScript implementation of CouchDB's ideas. There will be beer and pizza provided. The event is free, though you'll need to register at http://stvtechtalks.eventbrite.co.uk/ ahead of time so we can keep track of the number of people attending. We'll kick off at 6:30pm prompt. We hope to see you there! -- Cheers Michael