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From: brp@sim.uucp (bruce raoul parnas)
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Subject: Re: Neuron Digest V4 #6
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Date: 27 Sep 88 02:30:51 GMT
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In article <7753@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> pastor@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Jon Pastor) writes:
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>the special issue containing the abstracts for INNS).  There are no plans to
>publish proceedings, and the reason is financial.  INNS wished to keep the
>cost of the conference down, so as to make it accessible to as many researchers
>and students as possible.  The INNS board decided that the inclusion of
>proceedings would have increased the cost of conference registration by an 
>unacceptable amount (let's say, $90, based on the ICNN Proceedings costs).


I have had some dealings with the INNS, and I find that they are very concerned
about money, to the exclusion of the interests of science.  But that's 
another issue.
   The IEEE Neural and Information Processing Systems conference held last
November in Denver DID have available proceedings which could be purchased by
those who attended the conference for about $29 or so.  The cost of 
registration was $50 (for students, and pretty low for others), which is
considerably less than that of the INNS conference.  They did not seem to have
a problem making proceedings available.  These were done (as you suggested) by
getting the orders FIRST, then publishing.  Still, the conference was cheaper,
probably equally good, and there were no problems with proceedings.
   I think the problem lies more with the administration at INNS than it does
in fact.

-bruce