Wednesday, January 07, 2009

SODA news: American Association of Chiropractors in a deep funk...

As promised, there was no hard copy proceedings at the conference this year, causing spinal columns everywhere to heave a huge sigh of relief. What's even more amazing is that ALL the papers from the conference are online: I downloaded them all last night ! Bill Gasarch has this, and more on why he enjoyed SODA, which apparently disturbed Lance so much he had to snark in the post immediately after :)

p.s the comment linked above points out that Las Vegas was the "first choice" for SODA in 2010, even though Austin was the "realistic second" that ultimately won.

2 comments:

  1. The lack of printed proceedings is nice on the wallet, too. With wifi in the conference site, they wouldn't have been missed -- even then, the program was followed by every paper's abstract, which mostly sufficed (though it would have been 17% better if the abstracts had had separators indicating the session, so we could binary search).

    Is SoCG following suit?

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  2. the SoCG proceedings are quite thin, so I don't know if there's a plan to follow suit. This appears to be something that SIAM is doing for all its conferences: ACM would have to follow suit for it to work at SoCG.

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