I was at both the talks you mentioned. The tips for presenters was... mostly common dog kinda stuff, but common sense isn't, and it was presented in a way that made sense. I'm glad I wasn't the only underwhelmed person at the other you mentioned: I already knew all that stuff, and it's nothing somebody couldn't get from reading the intro to the topic anyway. I mean, the talk I gave a few years ago was pretty basic too, but it was only 15 minutes and I know there's few people on campus familiar with that particular technology. The talk this year, most of us know what the concepts were and why one would want to use it, the question was how. Or something. It's actually kind of hard for me to say why I was kind of wishing for my 50 minutes back.
One of "my" grad students went to it too: he wasn't impressed. He was already somewhat familiar with the concepts being presented, but not entirely, and he wanted to be sold. Instead, he was anti-sold, to a certain extent.
I kind of agree with not holding the presentation tips beforehand: hold it before, and probably only people who are presenting this year are going to attend, and they want to encourage more people to give talks. On the other hand... yeah.
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Date: Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:13 am (UTC)One of "my" grad students went to it too: he wasn't impressed. He was already somewhat familiar with the concepts being presented, but not entirely, and he wanted to be sold. Instead, he was anti-sold, to a certain extent.
I kind of agree with not holding the presentation tips beforehand: hold it before, and probably only people who are presenting this year are going to attend, and they want to encourage more people to give talks. On the other hand... yeah.