Re: [Tccc] presentations by non-authors

Very true. A restriction on at least one author registration should be
modified to at least one author attendee. In any case there is a problem
regarding their presence than the presentation should be directly uploaded
instead of presenting by anyone. A conference has a main motive of
discussing the issues and getting feedback on your work.

Gaurav Somani
LNMIIT, Jaipur

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in the past, we had problems that accepted papers didn't get presented,
> when authors would not show up at the conference. This has since been fixed,
> usually by requiring a presentation before accepted papers are published in
> the digital library.
>
> My impression at GLOBECOM this year is that roughly 1/3 of the papers are
> presented by someone other than the authors. This usually means that it is
> impossible to ask any substantial questions. Several authors actually
> directly end with a slide that says "send questions to the authors by
> email."
>
> One of the main attractions of attending a conference IMO is being able to
> interact with the authors, both in the session and during the breaks. When
> authors aren't here, that's not possible and the value of the conference is
> greatly diminished. I might as well watch a YouTube video of the talk.
>
> (I do understand that sometimes visa issues, etc. can prevent an author
> from attending a conference on short notice. But I don't believe this
> explains the large number of cases I see here.)
>
> An easy fix would be to require presentation of a paper *by an author*
> before it's published. I'm wondering what others think of this idea?
>
> Lars
>
>
>
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