From eliswilson at hushmail.com Wed May 1 00:09:50 2013 From: eliswilson at hushmail.com (eliswilson at hushmail.com) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:09:50 -0400 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Message-ID: <20130430220950.AD9E614DBDE@smtp.hushmail.com> Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science 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 richer. After that, we received few reminders from WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two fake papers already published (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any thoughts of participating in 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 Section 2 of 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. 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 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. He also makes anonymous phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of Section 5 of above website). 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. Prof. Hamid Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a victim of cyber-attack (see Item 8 in Section 5 of above website). Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, 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. That is why WORLDCOMP?13 is taking place at a different resort. WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. The draft paper submission deadline is over 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! We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to 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 ask him to look at the Open Challenge (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he has any professional values. 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 at http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the keyword worldcomp fake for additional links. From mmcnickle at gmail.com Wed May 1 00:44:18 2013 From: mmcnickle at gmail.com (Martin Mc Nickle) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:44:18 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science In-Reply-To: <20130430220950.AD9E614DBDE@smtp.hushmail.com> References: <20130430220950.AD9E614DBDE@smtp.hushmail.com> Message-ID: We're not interested in propaganda of any sort. Please don't post here again. On 30 Apr 2013 23:40, wrote: > Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science > > 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 richer. After that, we received few reminders > from WORLDCOMP to pay > the fee but we never responded. This fake paper is different from the two > fake papers already published > (see https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 for details) in WORLDCOMP. > > > We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any > thoughts of participating in > 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 Section 2 of > 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. 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 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. > He also makes anonymous > phone calls and threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (See Item 7 of > Section 5 of above website). 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. Prof. Hamid > Arabnia makes a lot of tricks. For > example, he appeared in a newspaper to fool the public, claiming him a > victim of cyber-attack (see Item > 8 in Section 5 of above website). > > > Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP for more than 10 years, 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. That is why WORLDCOMP?13 is taking > place at a different resort. > WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. > > > The draft paper submission deadline is over 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! > > We ask Prof. Hamid Arabnia to 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 ask him to look > at the Open Challenge > (Section 6) at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 and respond if he > has any professional values. > > > 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 at > http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the > keyword worldcomp fake for > additional links. > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Last month we worked on a Subcrawl planner - it found the closest pub at each subway station and planned out your route to make sure you could do the full circle in a day. Some of the code is here: https://github.com/python- glasgow/subcrawl We will be following the format of the London Python Dojo - to read more about what to expect look here: http://ntoll.org/article/how-to-run-an-awesome-code-dojo Tickets are available now at https://pythonglasgow.eventwax.com/dojo-june-2013 Hopefully see you all there! Cheers, Dougal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From redsteg at gmail.com Tue May 28 10:22:26 2013 From: redsteg at gmail.com (Steven Holmes) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:22:26 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Pub meetup - Today! Message-ID: Hello Everybody, There's supposed to be a pub meetup this evening. As Mark can't make it, he asked me to arrange things, so I'll try and book a table at Bert's Bar for around 1830. Sorry for the short notice. For anybody who doesn't know me, I'm likely to be the only one in the pub with a python logo on a bit of paper. Look forward to seeing you all! Cheers, Steven From redsteg at gmail.com Tue May 28 16:21:32 2013 From: redsteg at gmail.com (Steven Holmes) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:21:32 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Pub meetup - Today! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Again! If anybody has plans to come along, could you please let me know? Most of the regulars I've asked aren't able to make it, so unless there are some others planning to attend, I think it's best to cancel. Cheers, Steven On 28 May 2013 09:22, Steven Holmes wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > There's supposed to be a pub meetup this evening. As Mark can't make > it, he asked me to arrange things, so I'll try and book a table at > Bert's Bar for around 1830. Sorry for the short notice. > > For anybody who doesn't know me, I'm likely to be the only one in the > pub with a python logo on a bit of paper. > > Look forward to seeing you all! > > Cheers, > > Steven From dgmccallum at agamik.co.uk Tue May 28 16:33:01 2013 From: dgmccallum at agamik.co.uk (Douglas McCallum) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:33:01 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Pub meetup - Today! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Steven I shall be there. Douglas On 28 May 2013, at 15:21, Steven Holmes wrote: > Hello Again! > > If anybody has plans to come along, could you please let me know? Most > of the regulars I've asked aren't able to make it, so unless there are > some others planning to attend, I think it's best to cancel. > > Cheers, > > Steven > > On 28 May 2013 09:22, Steven Holmes wrote: >> Hello Everybody, >> >> There's supposed to be a pub meetup this evening. As Mark can't make >> it, he asked me to arrange things, so I'll try and book a table at >> Bert's Bar for around 1830. Sorry for the short notice. >> >> For anybody who doesn't know me, I'm likely to be the only one in the >> pub with a python logo on a bit of paper. >> >> Look forward to seeing you all! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Steven > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh From Magnus.Hagdorn at marsupium.org Tue May 28 16:43:52 2013 From: Magnus.Hagdorn at marsupium.org (Magnus Hagdorn) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:43:52 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Pub meetup - Today! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51A4C2A8.1050003@marsupium.org> On 28/05/13 15:21, Steven Holmes wrote: > Hello Again! > > If anybody has plans to come along, could you please let me know? Most > of the regulars I've asked aren't able to make it, so unless there are > some others planning to attend, I think it's best to cancel. > > I was thinking of coming along. Cheers magnus From redsteg at gmail.com Tue May 28 17:19:49 2013 From: redsteg at gmail.com (Steven Holmes) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:19:49 +0100 Subject: [Python Edinburgh] Pub meetup - Today! In-Reply-To: <51A4C2A8.1050003@marsupium.org> References: <51A4C2A8.1050003@marsupium.org> Message-ID: As there are only a couple of us who can make it, I'm going to cancel this month. If this screws up anybody's evening plans, please accept my apologies. Cheers, Steven On 28 May 2013 15:43, Magnus Hagdorn wrote: > On 28/05/13 15:21, Steven Holmes wrote: >> >> Hello Again! >> >> If anybody has plans to come along, could you please let me know? Most >> of the regulars I've asked aren't able to make it, so unless there are >> some others planning to attend, I think it's best to cancel. >> >> > I was thinking of coming along. > Cheers > magnus > > > _______________________________________________ > Edinburgh mailing list > Edinburgh at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edinburgh