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Re: ACM or IEEE conference? (A Babel of Initialisms)
Subject:Re: ACM or IEEE conference? (A Babel of Initialisms) From:Ad absurdum per aspera <JTCHEW -at- LBL -dot- GOV> Date:Wed, 5 Jan 1994 23:44:47 GMT
> I have the feeling that October's conference in Banff
> is an IEEE IPCC conference, _not_ an ACM SIGDOC conference.
Yep. <deep breath> The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers International Professional
Communication Conference <whew!>. And time is running
out if you want to submit an abstract (deadline is the
end of January, I think).
Sometimes initialisms and acronyms are used to obfuscate;
sometimes to impress; sometimes as a courtesy to asthma
sufferers. :)
Joe
"Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
