Leonid Libkin escreveu:
>
> Dear Members of the Brazilian Research Council
>
> it has recently come to my attention that a decision by the Brazilian
> Research Council would terminate a research grant by a leading Brazilian
> logician, Professor Ruy de Queiroz. I understand that the main reason for
> the decision is the lack of a significant number of publications in "high
> impact" journals.
>
> I urge you to reconsider your decision for the following reasons.
>
> 1. I view this criterion as extremely arbitrary when applied in the field
> of CS. In some areas of CS journals and conferences universally recognised
> as the top and most prestigious ones are not even indexed by the ISI,
> leading to very bizarre situations (that occur in some countries) when one
> paper in a very poor quality workshop that somehow managed to get its
> proceedings published in LNCS is ranked higher than several papers in the
> top and most important conferences and journals.
>
> 2. If we talk about criteria that are not arbitrary, one can easily see
> that Professor de Queiroz continues to be recognised as Brazil's foremost
> researcher working in the area of logic in CS. Only in the past 2-3 years
> he has had a visiting Professorship at Stanford, was invited to serve as
> Guest Editor of three very high-impact journals (Annals of Pure and
> Applied Logic, Theoretical Computer Science, Information and Computation),
> was a member of the editorial board of a journal published by the Oxford
> University Press, and was elected to a council seat of the ASL
> (Association for Symbolic Logic), which is to logicians what the ACM is to
> computer scientists. In addition he has published in well-established
> journals such as Arch. Math. Logic.
>
>
>
> Professor de Queiroz is extremely well known outside Brazil as a leading
> Brazilian researcher in a large area of CS (with several regular top-level
> conferences and several journals). A decision not to renew his research
> grant is likely to be detrimental not only to his research activity but
> may also affect Brazilian PhD students studying in North America and
> Europe who are thinking of continuing their research careers in Brazil.
>
> I very much hope that your decision is not final and can be reconsidered.
>
> With the best wishes for 2007,
> Leonid Libkin
>
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