km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (01/15/87)
I just noticed that the Uniforum vendor exhibits are 10-4
Wednesday through Friday. Unfortunatley, that means that
people attending 3 Usenix tutorials or full technical
sessions, will not be able to visit the exhibits.
I know there must be a lot of factors that complicate
the scheduling, but it does seem desirable to avoid this
situation. Perhaps it would be a good idea to try and
schedule things so that Usenix ended a day earlier or
started a day later then the exhibits. Or perhaps the
Uniforum people could be persuaded to keep the exhibits
open later one night.
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Ken Mandelberg | {akgua,sb1,gatech}!emory!km USENET
Emory University | km@emory CSNET,BITNET
Dept of Math and CS | km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANET
Atlanta, Ga 30322 | Phone: (404) 727-7963fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (01/17/87)
I've been going to USENIX Conferences since 1983, and I find that during the technical presentations there is always at least one session (no matter how they run things) that, for me, has no interesting papers. That's when I go to visit the /vendor/show and poke fun at the marketroids. Since these shows aren't that big (Comdex, it ain't) it is possible to get through the /vendor/show in three hours, if you don't dawdle at any particular booth too long. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu