Hi all, This year's WORLDCOMP, an amalgamation of 20 different computer conferences, is being held in Las Vegas the week of July 21. If you are one of those narrow-minded nerds that is ONLY interested in a particular presently-popular flavor of AI, or only use Microsoft products, or fit into some other really narrow-mind slot, then WORLDCOMP is NOT for you. However, if you are like a bumble bee and like to cross-pollinate by carrying ideas between sub-disciplines, than this is the ONLY conference for you. I have NEVER heard of ANY paper being rejected there as being "off topic", as even the AGI conference has done to me. If a paper survives technical review (as ~30% do) then it is accepted, though it may find its way to a nuts and loons session, typically labeled something like "Miscellaneous".
To illustrate, look at my recent patent. In addition to addressing parsing, it also stuck its fingers into language translation and web crawling, which were both definitely outside of my usual travels. I got my education on language translation from the people from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Russian Translator project who attended; and my education on web crawling from several people, because one of the Internet conferences was filled with these presentations. This goes on over 4 days that have been chopped into 20-minute slices. I run from one room to another every 20 minutes, catching the very best of all 20 conferences. It takes me about a day of work with the schedule before the conference just to plan which of the talks I am going to see. I only end up seeing ~10% of everything that goes on, but that 10% is MY choice and includes presentations from nearly every conference. I usually present something at WORLDCOMP, but this year I am making two presentations - the fast parsing algorithm, and the "secret sauce" for the new microscope that I hope will enable uploading/downloading. So, literally, be there, or be square. Perhaps we will see each other there. Steve ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
