Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:11:38 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 15:55:56, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 18, 2003 at 15:49:28, Matthew Hull wrote: > >>Why do you say that? Because we don't do lots of low-tech "physical events"? > >You are not a programmer, you have not been to a physical event, so >I understand your ignorance of their importance. > >>It seems we (Americans) have little say in the matter. Europeans have all the >>say and they make sure it stays in Europe. Hmmm, I wonder why that is? Maybe >>they don't like getting the stuffing beat out of them by our supercomputers. > >Supercomputers play remote. You don't think they moved the entire SARA TERAS >cluster to Graz for Diep do you?!?! Of course not. But traveling to europe EVERY YEAR FOR A DECADE is somewhat not feasable/justifiable from a financial and/or marketing POV. Now, if the event were in North America every other year, the picture is very different from a News-coverage/marketing standpoint. It is much easier to get sponsors for high performance, high-tech engineering involvement. And it is much easier to engage global media interests in the USA. But, as long as Europeans insist on limiting the event to their small, technologically limited (little windows machines) sphere of influence, then it will forever continue to be a small European event of little interest to AI and the scientific community at large. IMHO, of course. MH > >-- >GCP
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