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From: vt_ai@abo.fi
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Subject: Re: ** Some impressions on AAAI-90 **
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Date: 9 Aug 90 13:57:06 GMT
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In article <|~0$!}_@ads.com>, marcel@ADS.COM (Marcel Schoppers) writes:
> 
> I attended the annual American Control Conference in San Diego earlier
> this year.  In that conference there were usually 10 parallel sessions
> and the proceedings weighed over 20 pounds.  When I commented on that,
> I was told that people just wouldn't come if their papers weren't published.
> I have often wondered why the AAAI proceedings seem to be the same size
> every year.

We too take that attitude. It is easier to get the expenses for the conference
only if a paper or a poster is being presented.

> (How many papers in this year's
> proceedings even mention an application, let alone a successful one?  Leave
> it to someone else to fail in the attempt to migrate the ideas into practice!)

That is the work of the engineers more than that of computer scientists.
The level is often lower, since the engineers have been doing things other
than computer science also. It is therefore a little more difficult for them
to get papers accepted to computer science conferences. 

AI research group
V{rmeteknik, ]bo Akademi