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Playing “Spot the Difference” with Springer
Christiane Peters
University of Illinois at Chicago
CRYPTO 2011Rump Session
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Recalling “Spot the Difference” games
Source: http://games2rule.com/
Setup:
• Take a document (e.g., a picture).
• Introduce N errors.
• Publish alternate next to the original and tell the player tofind the N differences.
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“Spot the difference” games for LNCS authors
If you want to play:
• write a paper
• get it accepted at a conference with LNCS proceedings
• send your camera-ready paper to Springer’s “ScientificPublishing Services” (SPS).
• wait for the “final” version of your paper and startcomparing.
Features:
• The number of errors N will be much higher than in anysmall flash game on your smart phone.
• You won’t know N in advance.
• You can play several rounds.
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“Spot the difference” games for LNCS authors
If you want to play:
• write a paper
• get it accepted at a conference with LNCS proceedings
• send your camera-ready paper to Springer’s “ScientificPublishing Services” (SPS).
• wait for the “final” version of your paper and startcomparing.
Features:
• The number of errors N will be much higher than in anysmall flash game on your smart phone.
• You won’t know N in advance.
• You can play several rounds.
2/13
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Example
• Players: Dan, Tanja, and I.
• Challenge document: article on Smaller decodingexponents: ball-collision decoding
We had the pleasure of playing 3 rounds in which we found 34,14, and 1 errors, respectively.
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Round 1: Round 2:
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Round 1: Round 2:
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Round 1: Round 2:
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Round 1: Round 2:
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My favorites (spoiler alert)
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Renaming conferences
• ASIACRYPT 2009 →• CRYPTO’87 →
Extra fun: try entering “CRYPTO 1987” and “ASIACRYPT 09”on http://www.springerlink.com/ and see if you can findthe proceedings.
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Reversing the order of authors/editors:
• Cohen, G., Wolfmann, J. (eds.): Coding theory andapplications. →
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Can introduce more errors by copy/paste-ing the wholebibliography from the submitted PDF and editing it (rather thanusing the submitted LaTeX source code):
•
• codewords →
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Can introduce more errors by copy/paste-ing the wholebibliography from the submitted PDF and editing it (rather thanusing the submitted LaTeX source code):
•• codewords →
11/13
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All-time favorite
A bib entry which should look like:
Charpin, P. (ed.): EUROCODE ’94 – Livre des resume –
EUROCODE ’94, Abbaye de la Bussiere sur Ouche,
France, October 1994 (1994); See [16]
Round 1:
Round 2:
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All-time favorite
A bib entry which should look like:
Charpin, P. (ed.): EUROCODE ’94 – Livre des resume –
EUROCODE ’94, Abbaye de la Bussiere sur Ouche,
France, October 1994 (1994); See [16]
Round 1:
Round 2:
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All-time favorite
A bib entry which should look like:
Charpin, P. (ed.): EUROCODE ’94 – Livre des resume –
EUROCODE ’94, Abbaye de la Bussiere sur Ouche,
France, October 1994 (1994); See [16]
Round 1:
Round 2:
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In conclusion:
• I usually do not play “Spot the Difference” games because Iconsider my time too valuable to do so.
• Sadly Springer’s SPS doesn’t seem to care.
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