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From: erich@eye.com (Eric Haines)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: No SIGGRAPH '91 Bowl
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.153404.6432@eye.com>
Date: 26 Apr 91 15:34:04 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.140738.6875@eecs.nwu.edu>
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In article <1991Apr24.140738.6875@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>I just got the registration package for SIGGRGAPH '91.  It seems that they have
>decided not to have a bowl this year.  Does anyone know why not?  Is there 
>someone we can all write to to try to talk them into changing their minds?

We just saw Pat Hanrahan (who organized it last year) and he said that
hopefully one will occur next year.  Pat joked that generating questions and
organizing things and whatnot was more time consuming than any real work he
did that year.  I can imagine:  questions like "What are the 3 most heavily
referenced SIGGRAPH papers by other SIGGRAPH papers?" must take a heck of a
lot of page flipping and counting, and that's just one question.

Eric Haines (one of the losers on Team Ithaca - hey, what can I tell ya, we
    were one of two teams from a town of 30,000, compared to the winners
    representing an entire first world nation...)