Doctor Chen was found hanging himself in the laboratory where he worked. His suicide note said that he was forced by a China tutor to publish a paper with serious problems, and his rejection was rejected, so he finally chose to commit suicide. From June 5438 to February last year, Chen wrote a paper on artificial intelligence accelerators in a very short time and submitted it to the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, which was successfully selected as one of the top conferences on computer architecture. The thesis is directed by (tutor), co-authored by four people, with Chen as the first author.
According to the timetable of ISCA's official website, the contributors need to submit the abstract of the paper at 65438 on February 3rd last year, and finish the first draft at 65438 on February 7th last year. At the end of 65438+ 10 this year, the meeting announced the results of the first round of selection, officially announced the selected papers in mid-March, and finalized them at the end of May. However, through further experimental authentication, he found that there were many problems in his paper, and many theories were meaningless at all, which made the whole paper equivalent to waste paper and had no value unless it was rewritten.
He found his tutor Li, hoping to withdraw his thesis. But the tutor refused and insisted on publishing it as scheduled. At Chen's insistence, the tutor also threw out a sentence: If you cancel your thesis, your six-year doctoral career will be completely abandoned and you will be expelled. ? According to his chat records with friends, Chen said that in order to justify himself, he could only try his best to make some similar reliable data. Chen once told many friends that he applied for withdrawing the manuscript many times, but all of them were rejected by his tutor. He thinks the paper meets the publishing standards? . In fact, this academic paper can be said to have crushed Chen? The last straw? .
Before committing suicide, Chen carefully set up regular emails and sent them one by one to his parents, tutors, friends and classmates. It is also in this suicide note that people found the reason for Chen's suicide: he was suspected of having a huge contradiction with his tutor before his death, and described in the suicide note that the paper was published by his tutor through relationships, which had serious academic problems. It is said that after Chen's death, the tutor was still tried by Chen for this article? The problem is obvious? On June 24th, I went to Phoenix, Arizona, USA to give a speech at the ISCA conference. Official findings: The allegations are true. Until recently, this punishment decision issued by the American Computer Society (ACM) prohibits individual members from publishing papers or participating in evaluation activities in all the journals under ACM in the next 15 years, which is the most severe punishment for its members in the publication regulations of ACM. After the release of this result, Chairman ACM also wrote to inform the family of the doctoral student of the investigation results and decisions. At present, the university involved (University of Florida) has not responded to this, and the tutor is still in office.