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>no matter how well known you think it is. May be this is specific to I.T or Computer Science? Where there are thousands of abbreviations and acronyms which itself is often the name people use. SQL, DRAM, CPU, HTTP, SRAM, FPGA, URL, TCP/IP, UDP, NAT, DHCP, GPL, etc. I mean if you are discussing technicals of Neural network you expect your audience to at least know CPU, GPU, and FPGA. And if you are discussing software development I hope I dont have to spell out GPL. So I dont think it is a form of eletism/knowledge gate keeping. In the age of internet you can search those "acronyms" meant without the full name, which isn't something could be easily done 15 to 20 years ago. In other industry such as Mobile Wireless Networking, those acronyms are often clearly spell out because there are comparatively little of it. FDD, TDD, MIMO, NR or LTE are often spelt out in full when they first use. |
I'm my university first-year CS class, a third of the students had never heard of GitHub. Now, that's easy to look up, and GPL seems to be a lucky acronym as well, but CNN certainly isn't. Expanding it the first time or adding a footnote costs you nothing, but people not right in your field or still learning tremendously. Someone who got their Master's in CS 10 years ago likely wouldn't have heard of CNNs at all, and neither would most new CS students.
A scientific publication in such a broad field with such a widely-applicable topic and one of the most clashing acronyms right in the title should most certainly at least expand their key terms.