Thanks Jeremy :). In response to the discussion about submitting abstracts versus papers, there are of course disciplines that do both well, but one of our biggest challenges is our inter-disciplinary nature. One of the reviewers this year made a great suggestion- that when submitting abstracts have the authors include, perhaps as a keyword, their disciplinary affiliation. And on the flipside, potential reviewers would also list their disciplinary affiliations so that we could try to match at least one reviewer from the discipline to the abstract. We also, unfortunately, must sometimes assign reviewers abstracts outside of their areas of expertise, or simply see the abstract go un-reviewed. The solution there is of course to have more reviewers-- which is a challenge from year to year. I'd be in favor of having full papers for future conferences, but I will agree with Ted and some others that I do go to conferences that review full papers only, and it is NOT a guarantee of quality. I'd stack AoIR's quality against any other conference, and I think we'd win many times. Mia -- Mia Consalvo, Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies 213 RTV Building School of Telecommunications 9 South College Street Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 740.597.1521 On 4/26/07 9:43 AM, "Jeremy Hunsinger" <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
It was, as usual with all things AoIR, volunteer work that made it happen, and it was primarily Mia Consalvo who volunteered. Without here there would not have been an annual, just as there would not have been one without the program chairs who served as editors, nor without the contributors.
Mia deserves much accolades for her work with AoIR. I know she has my appreciation and I suspect many others:)