Re: [Tccc] summary of current conference concerns v4

Joe,
While conferences are useful and absolutely needed for students
and faculty, these conferences are also beginning to play an important
role in many major research labs all over the world. I can tell that at
least from my personal experiences, where I have been on both sides.

As the BOG member you might know that ComSoc has also started to
put some emphasis on Industry participation and as per ComSoc's new
president Byeong G Lee, industry is one of the vertices of the golden
triangle for serving the humanity. As new areas begin to emerge (e.g.,
Ehealth, P2Pnetwork) the Technical Activities Board needs to decide
either to create new technical councils or overload the existing ones.
Thus, we should put both academics and industry into perspective while
discussing anything related to conferences.

As the newly appointed chair for the public visibility committee, I
would like to see how ComSoc helps the humanity to the fullest extent
possible. Thus, having more conferences is no harm as long as people
need those, get benefited from the papers, networking and we have a
systematic way for evaluating the quality of those conferences on a
recurring basis. I believe TCCC has a set of rules that it follows in
evaluating the new and ongoing conferences.

Let us use our resources to make sure the benefits ComSoc reach the
common mass. This will increase the attendance of non-authors also and
improve the quality and variety as well.

Thanks
Ashutosh Dutta
ComSoc Public Visibility Committee Chair

Joe Touch wrote:
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> Henning Schulzrinne wrote:
>>> Infocom had over 600 attendees, and 282 papers. Each of 4 workshops had
>>> around 14 papers, so add another 60 or so for that, another 70 for the
>>> posters, and 100 for the mini workshop. That's 512, so assuming nobody
>>> doubled up on anything, yes, the majority *could* have been authors.
>>>
>> This would presumably need more analysis (anybody have an attendance
>> list?), but I suspect Infocom attracts a fair number of faculty who have
>> one of their students present the paper. Nothing wrong with any of this,
>> and certainly not an automatic criterion either way for making a
>> conference valuable or not. Some of the smaller events probably draw
>> mostly authors, but they can still be quite useful.
>
> We'd need not only the attendee list, but a list of relationships to
> authors (not all advisors are coauthors on students' posters or papers).
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> So the question is whether getting such data would even be a useful
> exercise - even if we had this data, what would we want to do with the
> conclusions?
>
> Joe
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