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- From: speer@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (Rick Speer)
- Subject: Re: The Worst of Siggraph (Was 'The Best of Siggraph')
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.173253.17737@colorado.edu>
- Followup-To: speer@cs.colorado.edu
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:32:53 GMT
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- In a previous note,
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- > From: speer@cs.colorado.edu (Rick Speer) Wed, 12 Aug 1992
- > Article: 14786 of comp.graphics
- > Subject: The Worst of Siggraph (Was 'The Best of Siggraph')
- > Followup-To: speer@cs.colorado.edu
- >
- > To me, Siggraph was surprisingly more of a pain this year than in
- > many previous. Here's a few reasons-
-
-
- I said,
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- > 5. Unanswered questions about the degree to which Siggraph is run by an
- > 'old-boy' network... The growing suspicions are not helped by things
- > like Pat Hanrahan, a session chair, refusing to answer a question from
- > the floor about how and why a particular paper was accepted...
-
-
- This is not entirely accurate. Pat himself did not refuse to answer
- a question, as stated. Instead, he did not allow the second question
- from the floor for a particular paper to be answered, on the grounds
- of a lack of time.
-
-
- Rick Speer
- speer@cs.colorado.edu
-