John Karat 'Issue Process' Featured at IFIP Congress '94 Introduction In September of 1994, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) held its biannual congress in Hamburg, Germany. The IFIP Congress is intended to be a broadly based technical conference. The designation of the event as a congress rather than a conference is intended to convey the importance of active discussion as an important part of the meeting. However, in my experience, I have not see a distinction between the general structure of this "congress" and other "conferences" I have attended. There are papers, panels, and demonstrations arranged in parallel sessions, and discussions happen during coffee breaks and social events. There were roughly 1000 attendees from around the world- a number that is much smaller than in the peak years of this event. There was one interesting innovation attempted at this 1994 congress that is worth mentioning. Through the efforts of the International Program Committee chair, Dr Ronald Uhlig, an "Issue Process" was introduced as a means for structuring the overall conference. The first phase of the congress was organized as a two and a half day technical program with tracks with specific themes. In this phase attendees
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'Issue Process' Featured at IFIP Congress '94
Karat, John
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, Volume 27 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 1995
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