[comp.org.ieee] ICASSP Suggestions

malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) (09/03/89)

Does anybody have any suggestions/complaints about IEEE ICASSP (International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing)?  I'm on the organizing
committee for the 1992 ICASSP (yes, '92, we started work on this about a year
ago.)

We'd like to hear any comments, complaints or suggestions you might have.  
Somebody on the net has already suggested bigger print on the name tags and
that is on the list.  Anything else?  We know that the poster session at
the 1988 ICASSP in NY was too packed.  One of our committee members is 
lobbying for better coffee.  We've tried to figure out a way to get better
presentations but haven't really come up with any ideas.  (We've talked
about giving people the hook if they use more than four equations but then
somebody else pointed out that some people don't think it has any technical
content unless it has equations.)

So how about it?  ICASSP is approaching a 2000 person per year conference 
and we are anxious to do this one right.  What do you think?   Are the prices
too high?  The food not good?  What do you like about the banquets?  Are
there too many sessions?  Too many papers?  Too many people?

Cheers.

							Malcolm Slaney
							malcolm@apple.com