- Currently Listening to:
- Vast — We Will Meet Again
A number of the SRG volunteered were conscripted for active service as helping hands for Pervasive 2006 this week, which was chaired by Aaron and Paddy. The conference was really well managed, and I think can confidentally be called a great success, our two fearless leaders being the apotheosis of cool under pressure (Lorcan on Paddy: “I don’t think he knows how to sweat.”).
While being a volunteer was tough going, seeing my first conference from behind the scenes has been a very interesting experience. The SRG gang really gelled together well, and our ranks were further bolstered by a complement of other great volunteers, who we had a terrific time with.
We have the official photo gallery. The man William “Richie” Hazlewood — who can down a carbomb like nobody else I’ve ever met 
— has also uploaded a great set of photos from the conference (and the after-party…).
Celebrating a job well done!
- The elephants in the room at TED
You might think that doesn’t matter, but it does. It’s a fabric that encourages your mind to absorb and synthesize the ideas discussed. But it does more than that. It makes being at TED an ultra-HD experience. One that you can’t really get from the TED Talks, although even in video you notice a visual richness that’s just not there in other conferences. It’s the details and the details cost money.
- Daring Fireball: Macworld Expo Prelude
- Greetings!
Remember your ultimate business goal. It isn’t to have me listen to a pitch. It’s something more. Like a story on TechCrunch about your startup, or an introduction to someone who can help your project. If you keep the ultimate goal in mind, you won’t screw up by forcing intermediate goals that don’t really help you, and just frustrate the listener.
- Resource for Computer Graphics - Ke-Sen Huang's Home Page
- iHCI 2010
- Pecha Kucha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ?), usually pronounced in three syllables like "pe-chak-cha", is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown, usually at a public event designed for that purpose. Under the format, a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds.
- Program Committee Overload in Systems | May 2009 | Communications of the ACM
The organizers of SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, SIGCOMM,a and other high-ranked systems conferences are struggling to review rapidly growing numbers of submissions. Program committee (PC) members are overwhelmed. Good papers are being rejected on the basis of low-quality reviews. And arguably it is the more innovative papers that suffer, because they are time consuming to read and understand, so they are the most likely to be either completely misunderstood or underappreciated by an increasingly error-prone process.
- inessential.com: Brent’s WWDC Tips
- Conference Acceptance Rate Statistics - Computational Intelligence & Related
This page is an attempt to gather Acceptance Ratio statistics for Computational Intelligence & Related conferences.
- New for SIGGRAPH 2009 | SIGGRAPH 2009
- Slashdot | Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference
1) peer review is an old boys network, 2) people don't look at substance, they look for fancy buzzwords of the month and equations that look hard (you're rewarded for the more convoluted your paper is!), and 3) the way the system is setup, 99% of what is published is crap...people at universities and labs are forced to produce as many publications as possible to get promoted.
- Apple at Expo: What went wrong? | Mac Word | Macworld
- Information Aesthetics Showcase | Galleries & Experiences | SIGGRAPH 2009
- UbiComp2008 Korea - a set on Flickr
Richie's photos from AIS.
- Flickr: "ubicomp2008"
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