“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now”

Re:“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research r... by gautamdivgi on Sunday May 01, 2016 @10:02PM (#11608802)

I think the reason academics don't publish their code is that they don't want to get stuck into an endless discussion on the code along with people asking for "support" on it.

What I have found is that if you need the code for a specific data analysis then send an email to the authors of the paper. More than ever you will be surprised. They do share code with fellow researchers.

So - if you do really want code, write the email. Be forewarned though - the quality is often bad from a s/w engineering perspective and suits a very specific purpose. It will also come in a language of the authors choice (Tcl/Tk for ns2 scripts, matlab scripts, octave, etc.)

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Re:“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research r... by derf_ on Sunday May 01, 2016 @11:32PM (#11609062)

I've published code for most of my papers, and rarely, if ever, received support requests. When I have, it's usually been from someone else trying to do work with it, who asks good, intelligent questions (i.e., the requests you want to receive).

Maybe that just means I don't write very interesting papers.

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Re:“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research r... by vanderZwan on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:57AM (#11609425)

I think you're doing pretty well if you've gotten more than zero supports requests, and they are all relevant to the topic too.

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