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stoc-review-process
Use when reasoning about how a STOC (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing) submission is evaluated — the SIGACT program-committee model with external subreviewers, HotCRP mechanics, double-blind conflicts, the November-to-February decision arc, and what best-paper designation and rejection each actually mean.
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# STOC Review Process
Model for the anchor cycle: STOC 2026 submissions went to HotCRP
(`stoc26.hotcrp.com`) by November 4, 2025, and decisions were emailed on or
before February 1, 2026 — a roughly thirteen-week arc with no author-visible
intermediate stage announced in the CFP (checked 2026-07-08). The PC chair was
Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick); chairs and committees are reconstituted
every year by SIGACT, so treat all names as one-cycle facts.
## Who actually reads the paper
STOC uses the classical theory model, not the ML area-chair pyramid:
- A single program committee of several dozen theoreticians covers the whole