{"id":27,"date":"2006-03-30T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T16:16:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-11T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T21:00:36","slug":"how-to-make-spie-papers-worth-listening-to-a-modest-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"How to make SPIE papers worth listening to (a modest proposal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SPIE Microlithography Symposium is without question the premier annual conference in the field of semiconductor microlithography.  But all is not well in litho conference land.  Many of the papers are simply not worth listening to.  Of course, with any event this big you have to expect a range of quality in technical papers \u2013 to get the good one must accept the bad and the ugly.  As the conference has grown over the years, the very good papers have stayed very good.  But the bad papers have gotten worse, and the average quality of papers at the conference has steadily declined as the conference has grown.  The reason for this is clear to me:  an increased influence of sales and marketing goals over technical goals.  With the conference\u2019s growth in size has come a growth in influence, and a desire by many to control that influence.  <\/p>\n<p>What can be done to fix this problem?  I&#8217;ve written a short whitepaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lithoguru.com\/scientist\/essays\/spie_proposal.html\">A Modest Proposal<\/a>,  with concrete recommendations that I believe can improve paper quality.  If you disagree, please let me know.  If you agree, please let the conference organizers know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SPIE Microlithography Symposium is without question the premier annual conference in the field of semiconductor microlithography. But all is not well in litho conference land. Many of the papers are simply not worth listening to. Of course, with any event this big you have to expect a range of quality in technical papers \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microlithography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}