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- From: budd@fog.CS.ORST.EDU (Tim Budd)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: OOPSLA 92 summary
- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.225106.16039@CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:51:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: CS.1992Nov06.225106.16039
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- husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) writes:
- >pbahrs@netftp.austin.ibm.com (Peter C Bahrs (boca)) writes:
- >
- >
- >>Guest Speaker:
- >>Bummer, he was running windows and it crashed 3 times during his presentation.
- >>He went to using slides. no flames, just fact. This speaker was a
- >>press type. He did make some comments about ...those japenese...I think
- >>the attendees from Japan were insulted a little....?
- >
- >Kind of set/showed the direction the whole conference was turning to:
- >commercialize as much as possible.
- >
-
- Dirk's comments (not all of which I reproduce) seem to indicate he thinks
- the conference has lost its intellectual roots, and become simply a vehicle
- for commercialization. This is not the first time I have heard this.
- I might make an obvious observation: the range of papers accepted and
- presented reflects the papers submitted. If more cutting-edge research
- papers had been submitted, more would probably have appeared at the conference.
-