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From: reiter@forth.ed.ac.uk (Ehud Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: ** Some impressions on AAAI-90 **
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Date: 10 Aug 90 15:53:10 GMT
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In article <6888.26c16bb2@abo.fi> vt_ai@abo.fi writes:
>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.

I met a lot of people at AAAI who attended one of the (numerous) workshops,
and used that as a funding justification for attending the conference.
AAAI workshops have fairly open attendance, and I suspect that many of the
workshop papers had larger audiences than many of the papers presented at
technical sessions (many of the technical sessions I went to only had
50-100 people in the audience).  I certainly enjoyed the workshop I went to,
and wish I had gone to more.

So, next time AAAI comes around, I suggest signing up for one or more
workshops, and using that as a justification for travel money.

						Ehud Reiter
						(e.reiter@edinburgh.ac.uk)

						Ehud Reiter
						(e.reiter@edinburgh.ac.uk)