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14 September 2005

SATNAC Reflections Part 2

So SATNAC is finally drawing to a close - there were more academic presentations yesterday and today. Unfortunately the bad Internet connection situation has continued - although it has improved dramatically from Monday. The download speeds are still rather crap though. To be honest, there has been very little value from SATNAC - most the work is either uninteresting (because its not our field) or seems rather poor. That is not saying that there are no good papers; but they seem to be too few. Maybe if SATNAC was about security or DRM I would be more interested.

The closing function was in an "English Pub" theme - i.e. the food was not that great (although there was malva pudding) and it was not as well decorated as last year's District 6 theme. More on the entertainment on a later post ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yah neh! I saw on the 10 O'Clock SABC 3 news yesterday [13.9.5] a discussion on the SATNAC proceedings. They were interviewing the CTO of Telkom, Thami Msimango. He was just throwing big words around, convergence, broadband --- looking all clued up until they asked him what exactly is this broadband?

Have fun there though. See you when you return.