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Friday, June 18, 2004

Sociological follow-up on JoA/TALG

There continue to be signs of change in the wake of the mass resignation of the highly respected editorial board of Journal of Algorithms and their subsequent decision to found a competing, low-cost alternative journal, ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG). As noted previously, CV updating is an activity loathed by the vast majority. Donald Knuth, Helmut Prodinger, and Kurt Mehlhorn have overcome inertia to proclaim their new allegiance/editorial duties with TALG.