Welcome from the Con. Gen Chair
Exhibits Open Today
Window on the World
Issue 1
Exhibits Open Today
Colin Paul Gloster
As you may have noticed, the registration desks in the basement of the Foundation Building haven’t been dismantled and proceedings are still available nearby. You are now able to buy ICSE2000 t-shirts (the same as those worn by the student guides) and polo shirts from where you registered.
What’s happening? There are exhibits in this building. At the other end of the basement are tourism leaflets, and calls for papers and announcements for forthcoming conferences; workshops; and symposiums. Some of these were already there Tuesday but not as many as now on display. Dr. Neil Maiden, Head of City University London’s Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design and a participant in Sunday’s and Monday’s COTS workshop is advertising two research assistant posts. Well actually, like some of the other two hundred or so people at early workshops/tutorials who aren’t attending the rest of the conference he has gone already so it’s his cohort Cornelius Ncube (who became a doctor on March 6th) who’s stocking the exhibit with HCIDnews and these job advertisements.
Same building, first floor are posters (with A4 print-outs to be taken away) for concepts which haven’t had fully fledged papers written yet. There will be six book publishers on the first floor at whose stands (sized 2m2; 5m2; and 10m2) will be some of their wares for sale at discounted prices. John Wiley; McGraw Hill; Elsiever Science; Springer Verlag; Houston Education; and Harcourt Publishers will be there. These companies aren’t sponsoring the conference and have been given precedence for exhibition space because they’re selling items. This has surprised some people who would have thought that the sponsors would have been making their presence felt at the exhibition. It has been argued that people can easily see who the 20+ sponsors are at http://www.ul.ie/~icse2000/sponsors.html so that the sellers should be given a chance. As well as selling books there are brochures for some of their book ranges and subscription forms for and sample copies of their software engineering journals.
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