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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Richard Morris wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Some interesting conferences we could present our work at.
> I might be up to going to the one in spain/italy.
>
> Steph: what were the conditions about disemination on the grant?
>
> Rich
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Invitation to New York, Spain, and Italy; c/ba
> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:40:14 +0200
> From: IPSI Conferences <ny2005@ipsiconferences.org>
> To: pfaf@comp.leeds.ac.uk
>
> Dear potential Speaker:
>
> On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend a cordial
> invitation for you to submit a paper to the IPSI Transactions journal, or
> to attend one of the upcoming IPSI BgD multidisciplinary,
> interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary conferences.

I had a hunch their was something a bit suspect about these conferences.
indeed see:

Article on how a randomly submitted paper was accepted at the conferece
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/13/1723206&tid=133

Home page for automatic paper generator
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Critique of the conference
http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jz/sci/

Home page for conference
http://www.iiisci.org/sci2005/website/default.asp

It seems that conference costs $390, and very poor academic standing.

Rich