COSIT 07 - Day 1
COSIT really has the perfect size for a conference like this. With roughly 120 attendants, it is a single track conference, so you never miss an interesting talk because you are in another session. Moreover, since only about ¼ of all submissions have been accepted, the level of the presentations is very high. Yet, the topics are pretty diverse. Today’s afternoon session was completely filled with presentations by current or former ifgi-people, all dealing with different approaches to similarity. The other sessions dealt with cultural studies and semantics. The opening of the poster session then was quite entertaining, since every poster author had exactly 1 minute to briefly outline what their poster is about. I am a bit afraid that the doctoral colloquium on Sunday will also consist mostly of talks which are cut off in the middle because the presentation time is over, but seven minutes is still seven times as much as the poster authors had today. So I hope people really keep in mind that there is a strict time limit for the presentations.
In general, COSIT has a very nice atmosphere and being here and talking to people is really interesting and also fun most of the time. And it is very good (both for our project and my PhD research) to see that similarity and context seem to be the hot topics at the moment.
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