On Feb 21, 1:18 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI I'll be an invited speaker at ISSAC 2008 in Linz, Austria in July: > http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/issac2008/ > ... I don't have any idea what to expect > since I've never been to ISSAC before.
That's very good news. The people at ISSAC are mostly researchers who work on algorithms for symbolic computation. They will have likely heard of Sage, but they may not have actually seen it. A quick demo would go over well. Also, you can mention some of the areas where Sage has seen original development of state-of-the-art algorithms (HNF, Zp[x], etc). People will be very interested in that. You probably don't want to emphasize other systems too much (ie: better than system X), just say that Sage is the fastest at this and talk about the things people are working on next. Also, it might be worth talking a bit about Sage programming. Unlike other systems, if you're going to work on Sage you learn Python, which you can use to write applications too. That's a big plus. You should probably also mention that you can compile the code, etc, to get native speed. But the overall draw of ISSAC is algorithms. The audience wants to use fast algorithms and develop fast algorithms and develop new algorithms that probably aren't fast for problems nobody knows how to solve. You can give a very positive view of Sage development and it will attract the interest of some very good people. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
