From eliswilson at hushmail.com Wed May 1 01:18:11 2013 From: eliswilson at hushmail.com (eliswilson at hushmail.com) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:18:11 -0400 Subject: [PyAR2] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science Message-ID: <20130430231811.D89F0E6736@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. 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URL: From pythonlarry at gmail.com Tue May 7 19:43:05 2013 From: pythonlarry at gmail.com (Larry Hale) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 12:43:05 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] Python User Group Meeting - Tu, May 14, 7p In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry, forgot to specify: "The Library" is a room at the pub the meeting will be at. Please see the post on pyarkansas.org for COMPLETE details! :D Cheers, -Larry On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Larry Hale wrote: > Just a mention that this is the plan. Come to chat tech, python, or just > shoot the breeze. Hang out for an hour or longer! Bring something to Show > & Tell if you like - I plan on bringing cables and devices to demonstrate > connectivity-to/usability-with my phone (Android; Samsung Galaxy SIII, > specifically) and a Raspberry Pi _booting_ - these depending on the monitor > in The Library having HDMI input, and not just VGA... ;-) > > Hope to see everybody there! > > > Cheers, > -Larry > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kwadroke at kwadroke.com Tue May 7 20:31:49 2013 From: kwadroke at kwadroke.com (Kwadroke of The Wired) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:31:49 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] [PyAR2-organizers] Python User Group Meeting - Tu, May 14, 7p In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I should be able to make it this time. The TV there does have HDMI. It just might be hard to get to. Another group I'm a part of has hooked up to it before. I have a VGA converter for the RPi as well as DVI adapters too. I can bring some of my Pis along. On May 7, 2013 12:43 PM, "Larry Hale" wrote: > Sorry, forgot to specify: "The Library" is a room at the pub the meeting > will be at. Please see the post on pyarkansas.org for COMPLETE details! > :D > > > Cheers, > -Larry > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Larry Hale wrote: > >> Just a mention that this is the plan. Come to chat tech, python, or just >> shoot the breeze. Hang out for an hour or longer! Bring something to Show >> & Tell if you like - I plan on bringing cables and devices to demonstrate >> connectivity-to/usability-with my phone (Android; Samsung Galaxy SIII, >> specifically) and a Raspberry Pi _booting_ - these depending on the monitor >> in The Library having HDMI input, and not just VGA... ;-) >> >> Hope to see everybody there! >> >> >> Cheers, >> -Larry >> > > > _______________________________________________ > PyAR2-Organizers mailing list > PyAR2-Organizers at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pyar2-organizers > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pythonlarry at gmail.com Tue May 14 16:37:25 2013 From: pythonlarry at gmail.com (Larry Hale) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 09:37:25 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] Python User Group Meeting - Tonight @ 7p Message-ID: Meeting's tonight - hope to see you all there! Please see pyarkansas.org for details. Cheers, -Larry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pythonlarry at gmail.com Wed May 15 01:43:58 2013 From: pythonlarry at gmail.com (Larry Hale) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 18:43:58 -0500 Subject: [PyAR2] Python User Group Meeting - Tonight @ 7p In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here for the meet a bit early. There is a party in The Library (at Creegen's Bar: see pyarkansas.org) currently They MAY be done in time. If anybody else is coming, do email me here. ;-) -Larry Please forgive any typos, I sent this from my dumb phone... On May 14, 2013 9:37 AM, "Larry Hale" wrote: > Meeting's tonight - hope to see you all there! > > Please see pyarkansas.org for details. > > > Cheers, > -Larry > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: