http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/11/infovis-followup/ Life & Research Notes Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:38:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/11/infovis-followup/comment-page-1/#comment-17721 Robert Kosara Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:53:18 +0000 http://blog.brentfitzgerald.com/2007/11/infovis-followup/#comment-17721 The clash between the academic and the commercial world is the sound of revolution! (or something like that ;) The idea of letting your ideas out into the wild to be used by everybody/anybody is still an idea that's rather foreign to most academic folks, and does bring with it some anxiety. But that is exactly why that panel was so important! I think that we made quite an impression on a lot of people, I got a lot of good feedback from conference attendees (including btw a lady from Microsoft - not just the academics) who said they were inspired by the panel and were now reconsidering their work. The clash between the academic and the commercial world is the sound of revolution! (or something like that ;) The idea of letting your ideas out into the wild to be used by everybody/anybody is still an idea that’s rather foreign to most academic folks, and does bring with it some anxiety. But that is exactly why that panel was so important! I think that we made quite an impression on a lot of people, I got a lot of good feedback from conference attendees (including btw a lady from Microsoft – not just the academics) who said they were inspired by the panel and were now reconsidering their work.

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