Mark ReidA friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
Pekka Mäkinen@mdreid When I attended my first conference...counting the years...in 1989, there was a one French guy who had found a cardboard box on the street, stomped it flat (you could still see his dusty shoe prints on the box) and wrote his poster on the cardboard. And it was on display at the same time as my poster, for which I had prepared for weeks.
@PTM I know the feeling. One of the best “posters” I’ve seen at a conference was also by a French researcher. He stood up an empty, poster-sized blackboard and proceeded to summarise all the main results in his paper when the poster session started. In became an impromptu interactive lecture as the crowd that formed around him started to ask questions and for more details.