Well it’s been more than a year since the last time I talked about projects I’m working in.
But here I am, reporting on the conclusion of C-Cast.
Last week I was in Florence, Italy (so far the city I most enjoyed in Italy) in the Future Network & Mobile Summit, during which we presented C-Cast publicly through a workshop and demonstration booth.
In the days preceding the conference, we were audited by the European Commission with a final result of “Good to excellent progress (the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations).“, plus we were considered the best “run up demo” in the conference.
Like in C-Mobile we produced a video, also presented in Florence, that gain the attention of both the reviewers and conference attendees.
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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