Workshop preparations complete
Here we are, only 3 weeks until the workshop starts. The organizers have had more than a dozen transcontinental telcos (try to organize a telco involving Australia, North America and Europe sometime) and have spent many hours poring over topic area applications, participant applications, inviting guest participants, making a new web site and mailing lists, raising money, organizing housing and logistics - the list goes on and on. This year the workshop had over 90 applications and only 30 spots, so the choice of participants was very constrained. This was also the most successful year on record for fund-raising. The NSF still provides the bulk of the funding (80% of which goes to pay for increasingly expensive Telluride housing), but this year we were fortunate to also receive support from the Kavli Foundation and Oticon Foundation. And this year we had the largest industry sponsorship: Intel, Mitre Corporation Google, and Prophesee together contributed nearly $100,000 to...