Review of RAMS 2025

Abstract

Chris and Fred discuss the success or otherwise of the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) 2025 … with a focus on AI. What are your thoughts?

Key Points

Join Chris and Fred as they discuss the success of RAMS 2025 and its focus on AI. This year, RAMS 2025 was held in Florida.

Topics include:

• How did its focus on AI go? RAMS historically has ‘themes’ that rarely reflect what it is all about. This year’s theme was about ‘AI.’ While there was a fair bit of AI content, it didn’t feel like this was any more than what was included last year. And unfortunately, AI appeared to be touted as a universal panacea to reliability issues. It isn’t. You come up with a crumby design for a new product, AI won’t all of a sudden make it reliable.


• Conference ‘academic’ writing standards remain a challenge. Technically, to get accepted into a journal or conference proceedings, a paper needs to reflect something that is ‘new’ or adds to the ‘state of the art.’ However, some of the best stories are people talking about mistakes they made on their journey to making something amazing and reliable. These stories often get rejected by the paper selection committee as they are not ‘technical enough.’ But then the papers that are ‘technical enough’ tend to address a very small fraction of real world problems. So it is hard to understand what is ‘acceptable’ or ‘not’ … meaning we get a wide range of papers in terms of quality and relevance.


• Location, Location, Location! The RAMS hotel selections remain inexplicable. The nearest ‘main’ airport is almost two hours away! The hotel, while nice, is so isolated that it charges like wounded bulls for food, amenities, and so on. This matters! When people are choosing which conference to attend, conferences held in expensive, hard-to-reach places are not a selling point. The RAMS committee can only pretend to openly complain and worry about how to attract future attendees while travelling to the dumbest places to hold conferences so many times …

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