Aug 12 2007
IJCNN 2007 Day 1
Day 1
Arrived the other day for the 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN Conference. Boy this is an expensive conference! And I really don’t understand these so called “Tutorials” for which the privilege of attending you are supposed to pay an extra $130. Really, these are just another way for these people who proposed and give the tutorials for presenting and communicating their work (almost always just the same thing as an extended special session). They are almost never really tutorials, for the purpose of the participants learning a new skill or tool. One hint to other conference goers, these kinds of tutorials, in my experience, are not worth paying the money to go to them (and in all conferences I have attended, no one actually checks your registration, so you can walk in and listen to them anyway).
Well at least IJCNN provides free wireless for the conference participants, unlike some other conferences I can think of (CogSci I’m looking at you).