1. Attend sessions made up of invited talks. Invited-only sessions offer the best prospect of understanding, albeit partially, the science content of the talks. Invited talks tend to be longer, which gives the speakers the chance to properly introduce their topics to nonspecialists. Short, contributed talks, by contrast, have to jump right to the results, leaving nonspecialists in a state of puzzlement.
2. Don't spend all your time in talks. When we go to meetings, it should be to meet people, as well as to learn about new work.
3. Introduce yourself to people. Eexpand your network of acquaintances and potential collaborators by introducing yourself to what I call near strangers. These are people whose papers you've read and admired or who collaborate with your collaborators but not yet with you.
4. Visit the exhibit hall. For one thing, people tend to visit the hall alone, which makes them easier to approach than if they're outside a session, talking with their friends and collaborators.
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the field of information retrieval.
Internet Generations, the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, bringing together scholars from many disciplines and nations.
Work on the Semantic Web is all to often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realis
Work on the Semantic Web is all to often phrased as a technological challenge: how to improve the precision of search engines, how to personalise web-sites, how to integrate weakly-structured data-sources, etc. This suggests that we will be able to realis