Last week it was the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS41) on the Big Island and this week it's the Pacific Telecommunications Conference (PTC '08 -- or alternatively, PTC30) in Honolulu.
HICSS now has several mini-tracks related to social media within the Collaboration and Digital Media & Communication tracks. The typical hard choices between sessions had to be made. As usual the opportunity to keep in touch with the people and their work was wonderful. HICSS is most academic researchers but big companies like Microsoft and IBM also present papers by a few of their researchers. Nobody presented a paper that would make my dissertation obsolete so one outcome was a reminder to me to speed up!
PTC is the reverse -- more from industry and fewer academics. The researcher group is expanding and completely filled the researcher lunch meeting room yesterday. Telecom policy papers, whether from regulators or academics, have been particularly strong at PTC. There are several good papers today and an important session on organizing research on ICTs and development. I get to pursue both the day-job interest in internet aboard aircraft with vendors in town, and research interests.
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