<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Two observations:</font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">1. All the comments seem to be posted by one person seeing that the time is the same</font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">2. This is a congress of conferences. For the BioComp, see </font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13/committee">http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13/committee</a></font></div>
<div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Disclaimer: I went to the links out of academic interest, because part of my research is to extract knowledge from literature for end users. This has to include gray literature and even unpublished reports to avoid publication bias.</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Phil Gooch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philgooch@gmail.com" target="_blank">philgooch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">The article talks about '<span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">his conference' - it's a bit unusual for an international conference to be organised by one person, isn't it?</span><div>
<span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">If this is genuine, then there would surely be an organising committee - who are the organising committee for WorldComp and why are they not backing him up?</span></div>
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<div><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:15px;text-align:left;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Phil</span></div>
</font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Kevin B. Cohen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.cohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.cohen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Interesting that every one of the twelve comments on that article was<br>
anonymous...<br>
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Kev<br>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Terry Murphy <<a href="mailto:tmorpheme@hotmail.com" target="_blank">tmorpheme@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Another point of view:<br>
> <a href="http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elaborate-cyber-attack/article_03344d54-cd7f-5753-a870-e3bcee5c87ce.html" target="_blank">http://www.redandblack.com/news/professor-deals-with-elaborate-cyber-attack/article_03344d54-cd7f-5753-a870-e3bcee5c87ce.html</a><br>
><br>
>> From: <a href="mailto:kevin.cohen@gmail.com" target="_blank">kevin.cohen@gmail.com</a><br>
>> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:32 -0700<br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:corpora@uib.no" target="_blank">corpora@uib.no</a><br>
>> Subject: [Corpora-List] Fwd: [BioNLP] World’s Biggest Computer Conference<br>
>> WORLDCOMP is Cancelled<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> There's been traffic about this topic on the CORPORA list in the past, so<br>
>> I'm sure that some of you will be amused by this email.<br>
>><br>
>> Kev<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
>> From: <<a href="mailto:amgsolo@hushmail.com" target="_blank">amgsolo@hushmail.com</a>><br>
>> Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:22 AM<br>
>> Subject: [BioNLP] World’s Biggest Computer Conference WORLDCOMP is<br>
>> Cancelled<br>
>> To: <a href="mailto:bionlp@lists.ccs.neu.edu" target="_blank">bionlp@lists.ccs.neu.edu</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> The world’s biggest computer science conference WORLDCOMP is canceled<br>
>> after twelve successful years of service. Defamation campaign is going<br>
>> on WORLDCOMP: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf</a> or<br>
>> <a href="http://dumpconference.ueuo.com" target="_blank">http://dumpconference.ueuo.com</a> or<br>
>> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1</a> or<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://weka.8497.n7.nabble.com/WORLDCOMP-World-s-Biggest-Bogus-Conference-is-Back-Again-td26681.html" target="_blank">http://weka.8497.n7.nabble.com/WORLDCOMP-World-s-Biggest-Bogus-Conference-is-Back-Again-td26681.html</a><br>
>> or Google using the words worldcomp, fake or worldcomp, bogus.<br>
>><br>
>> We filed lawsuits in 2012 to stop this defamation but no use. Due to<br>
>> this, we are finding it highly difficult to get paper submissions,<br>
>> sponsors, etc. We are determined to solve this problem permanently<br>
>> through legal channels. We are focusing all our efforts on legal<br>
>> matters and that’s why we canceled WORLDCOMP’13. We update WORLDCOMP’s<br>
>> website also, once we complete some legal/technical formalities.<br>
>><br>
>> As ordered by the University of Georgia, Prof.Hamid Arabnia<br>
>> (<a href="http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra" target="_blank">http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra</a> WORLDCOMP coordinator) is refunding half<br>
>> the amount of the registration fee for all the registered authors of<br>
>> WORLDCOMP from 2005-2012. If you are a registered author and your<br>
>> physical address is changed then send an email to hra (AT) <a href="http://cs.uga.edu" target="_blank">cs.uga.edu</a><br>
>> and CC to morehead (AT) <a href="http://uga.edu" target="_blank">uga.edu</a> with your name, year, paper title,<br>
>> list of all co-authors of the paper, the amount of fee you paid, and<br>
>> the new mailing address for sending the refund check. The deadline to<br>
>> email this information is one week from now. Please forward this email<br>
>> to all your friends who have papers in previous WORLDCOMPs.<br>
>> Sincerely,<br>
>><br>
>> AMG Solo (Ashu Solo)<br>
>> <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=BIOFUSION;f9748581.0705" target="_blank">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=BIOFUSION;f9748581.0705</a><br>
>> (WORLDCOMP publicity chair since 2005)<br>
>><br>
>> My interesting activity is:<br>
>> <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/17/saskatoon-bus-display" target="_blank">http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/17/saskatoon-bus-display</a> or<br>
>> Google using the words ashu solo, christmas<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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