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People attending a conference

July 28, 2009 English

This is something that came up during a talk in my research group, which I would like to share, in order to check if someone agrees:

It’s true that I haven’t attended a conference in a while. And my main opinion is that they are mostly not worthy the travel expenses… but that will be a different post!

Either way here is my caustic view of  the 3 kinds of people attending a Science Conference nowdays:

- The authors of the papers (which usually sit in the front row) and will only ask you a question out of courtesy.

- The friends of the authors (well the folks you know, and who happen to be attending the conference that will sit there while you present, before leaving with you to go somewhere else more interesting)

- The “Others” which could actually make you a good question but will not. Either because they are polite not to shoot you down in public, or simply because there only there for the free wifi and not really for you paper.

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@Athens, Greece

September 5, 2007 English

This week I’m attending PIMRC’07 where I’ll be presenting a paper entitled IP Multicast Dynamic Mapping in Heterogeneous Environments (I’ll post the URL when the paper becomes available at IEEExplorer)

I had never been to greece before, but I must say to you, their taxi drivers are the most insane I’ve ever met. I was comming from the Airport at 12.30AM at more then 150km cutting through lanes while listening to the driver, that shouted (literally) to my ears how bad his life was, and how much the € made it worst…

Besides this, the weather is really nice (warm) and the conference although a bit side track to my main interests is being really interesting.