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- From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
- Subject: Re: The Worst of Siggraph (Was 'The Best of Siggraph')
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.200250.8910@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <1992Aug12.173253.17737@colorado.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:02:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.173253.17737@colorado.edu> speer@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (Rick Speer) writes:
- >In a previous note,
- >...
- >
- >I said,
- >
- >> 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.
-
- *Not entirely accurate*???? How about, as different as night and day.
-
- The first version presumes that a session chair knows the answer to
- such a question, presumes that it's a proper question to ask during a
- session, and accuses Pat of trying to duck the issue.
-
- The second version simply reports that Pat performed his duties as
- session chair correctly. Perhaps the most important job of a session
- chair is to meet the schedule.
-
- If you'd like more questions from the floor, please agitate for SIGGRAPH
- to specify a fixed time for presentation, to be followed by a fixed time
- for questions. Don't blame the session chair when the presenters use
- 100% of their alloted time.
-
- If you have questions that didn't get answered - corner the speaker
- after the session. The first question you can ask is, "Why didn't you
- leave time for questions".
-
-
-
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