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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).
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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