I was always sceptic about the peer-review system of the scientific papers and recently I witnessed a discussion about this topic in a mail-list and one of the member of this list sent the Simona Santini’s paper:
This paper includes rejection letters of the reviewers of the famous computer science papers. I want to cite some of them:
“On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem.”
If the article is accepted, Turing should remember that the language of this journal is English and change the title accordingly.
“A Mathematical Theory of Communication.”
The author mentions computing machines, such as the recent ENIAC. Well, I guess one could connect such machines, but a recent IBM memo stated that a dozen or so such machines will be sufficient for all the computing that we’ll ever need in the foreseeable future, so there won’t be a whole lot of connecting going on with only a dozen ENIACs!
IBM has decided to stay out of the electronic computing business, and this
journal should probably do the same!
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