The New STOC Rules for the AI Era

The 59th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing takes place in Atlanta next June, part of the Federated Computing Research Conference. I don't usually do announcement posts but we need to talk about the Call for Papers (deadline November 2) whereIn light of rapid advances in generative AI and their impact on research and scientific communication, STOC 2027 is experimenting with several new policies intended to encourage high-quality submissions and promote clear and effective communication of research. Let's talk about these changes, which seem more designed to limit the deluge of AI generated papers.STOC 2027 submissions will not be anonymous; all listed authors must be human and are responsible for the submission.This reverses the move to removing authors' names that STOC made in 2023. I was never a fan of double blind reviewing and you need authors who can take responsibility for the submission.Each author may appear on at most five submissions.Understood but it might hurt some…