{"id":538,"date":"2007-04-20T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T17:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=538"},"modified":"2007-04-20T12:29:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T17:29:35","slug":"greetings-from-mics-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/20\/greetings-from-mics-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from MICS 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/279624309\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/119\/279624309_02184fb6c0_m.jpg?resize=240%2C146\" width=\"240\" height=\"146\" alt=\"Teamwork\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve arrived without incident in Grand Forks, ND, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.und.edu\/mics07\/\">MICS 2007<\/a>.  To be blunt, I tend to not come to MICS very often because the quality of the presentations generally isn&#8217;t very impressive (not the best examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/08\/ill-be-over-here-getting-my-sandwich-board-ready\/\">scientists as great communicators<\/a>, I&#8217;m afraid).<\/p>\n<p>We have four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morris.umn.edu\/\">UMM<\/a> student talks at this year&#8217;s conference, including a talk by two students I&#8217;ve been working with on the impact of geography and local mating on diversity in evolutionary computation.  Elena set up an evening practice session Wednesday where we could to see and provide feedback on the four talks, and they were quite impressive, so I&#8217;m quite confident about those presentations. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not so confident concerning the other presentations, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/19\/death-by-powerpointliterally\/\">PowerPoint Phluff<\/a> alone may induce an aneurysm before we&#8217;re done.  We&#8217;re currently being droned at by a panel of industry people talking about the state of the field (or some such &#8211; not clear what the point of this is), and a guy from Rockwell Collins just did his darnest to make interesting material really unfocused and hard to listen to.  Sigh.  The next guy (from Great Plains\/Microsoft) was much more interesting, and seemed to have a point and focus.  And thus we have what is likely to be a microcosm of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Quote for the day:  &#8220;If you don&#8217;t do at least a <em>billion<\/em> dollars in sales, you&#8217;re really just a rounding error at Microsoft.&#8221;  Yikes!  Sadly these industry guys all seemed to see this as a recruiting opportunity at least as much as a chance to share information with their audience.<\/p>\n<p>They have good wireless, though, so if nothing else I can catch up on e-mail and bury you in content free bored-conference-blogging :-).<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve arrived without incident in Grand Forks, ND, for MICS 2007. To be blunt, I tend to not come to MICS very often because the quality of the presentations generally isn&#8217;t very impressive (not the best examples of scientists as great communicators, I&#8217;m afraid). We have four UMM student talks at this year&#8217;s conference, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/04\/20\/greetings-from-mics-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greetings from MICS 2007&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[4,17,11,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1265,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2010\/05\/10\/im-published-in-cacm-but-not-in-the-way-one-might-have-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m published in CACM! 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On top of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/04\/10\/many-congratulations-to-go-around\/","url_meta":{"origin":538,"position":4},"title":"Many congratulations to go around","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"10 Apr 06","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been quite a week for Computer Science students here at UMM and they definitely deserve some props. In no particular order: Emily Christiansen just got back from a wonderful weekend as one of the finalists in this year's Google Anita Borg Scholarship. 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