Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: Re: Disillusionment with Usenix tutorial Message-ID: <1550@utah-gr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:23:27 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1550 Posted: Mon Aug 12 20:23:27 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 04:06:16 EDT References: <92@tekadg.UUCP> <6@nbs-amrf.UUCP> Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept Lines: 26 In article <6@nbs-amrf.UUCP> libes@nbs-amrf.UUCP (Don Libes) writes: >While I'm on the subject, just what is the point of offering courses >like "Elementary C programming" or "Elementary shell programming" or "An >Introduction to UNIX" at a Usenix conference? The conference is >supposed to cater to experienced UNIX users, no? You're not going to go >to AAAI or SIGGraph to get an introduction to AI or graphics, are you? Well, let's see. Looking through this year's SIGGRAPH program, we find the following courses: 1. Introduction to computer graphics 2. Introduction to color raster graphics 8. How to evaluate and shop for computer graphics hardware 9. Introduction to computer amimation 18. Introduction to solid modeling 26. Introduction to image processing So 6/27 = 22% of the SIGGRAPH tutorials were introductions to some topic in "computer graphics". The answer, in this case is "yes, many people go to SIGGRAPH to get an introduction to computer graphics." -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) "To feel at home, stay at home. A foreign country is not designed to make [one] comfortable. It's designed to make its own people comfortable." Clifton Fadiman