Shannon Jacobs wrote:
> Curt Fischer wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>> That is very unlikely.  Did you know that international conferences
>> happen all the time in Japan?  I'll probably be attending one next
>> month in Tsuruoka.
> 
> 
> Perhaps my interests are too narrow in terms of the "major" conferences. 
> For example, OOPSLA has never come to Japan, but that's not an adequate 
> data point, since it's never left North America. I see CHI has gone to 
> Europe a few times, but probably never come to Japan. (Not certain about 
> 1997-1999.) I'm pressed to consider SIGGRAPH as a major conference these 
> days, but if it came to Japan recently, then I missed it, and nothing in 
> the historical archives to suggest it came in past years. ECOOP 
> obviously can't come. Embarrassing, but I'd have to do some research to 
> identify other majors...

I don't know what CHI, OOPSLA, or SIGGRAPH are.  I'm a chemical engineer 
working in the field of biotechnology.  What's your idea of a major 
international conference?  How many participants?

-- 
Curt Fischer