[visionlist] Request of people sharing conference info: Please spell out the full conference name on first mention

[Bart Farell]

Lester et al.-

I prefer turning meaningless acronyms into ludicrous conference names,
then, if I have any further interest in it, googling to find the banal
truth.

Cheers,
Bart

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Bart Farell (ret.).

Institute for Sensory Research

Department of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering

Syracuse University

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:00 PM Andrew Watson <awatson3 at apple.com> wrote:

> Lester et al.,
>
> I completely agree, but would go further (politely):
>
> Complete name
> Dates
> Location (or “Virtual")
> URL
>
> -Beau
>
>
> *Andrew Watson *Chief Vision Scientist
>  Apple
>
> On Dec 16, 2020, at 2:38 PM, Lester Loschky <loschky at ksu.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I would like to politely make a request of anyone posting conference
> information.  If the conference name has an acronym, please spell out the
> full conference name at the beginning of the announcement.  That way,
> anyone who doesn't already know the acronym can have some idea of what it
> is, and if they should look into it.
>
> Some people posting conference information might think, "anyone who
> doesn't already know the acronym for our conference, doesn't need to know."
>  At least, that seems to be the implicit assumption of the numerous
> conference postings that only give their acronyms throughout the entire
> posting.  However, I am guessing that most, or many, conferences aspire to
> bring in new members and presenters, sometimes even from outside of their
> normal group of members.  Such new members or presenters can bring
> interesting new perspectives.  So, it certainly can't hurt to spend the
> extra 1-3 seconds it takes to type out the full name of the conference at
> the top of the message.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Les Loschky
>
> --
> Lester Loschky
> Professor
> Associate Director, Cognitive and Neurobiological Approaches to Plasticity
> Center
> Department of Psychological Sciences
> 416 Bluemont Hall
> 1114 Mid-Campus Dr North
> Kansas State University
> Manhattan, KS  66506-5302
> email: loschky at ksu.edu
> research page: https://www.k-state.edu/psych/research/loschkylester.html
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