SAICSIT Masters and Doctoral Symposium 2009
On the 11th October 2009, our Digital Libraries Research Group flew to Gauteng for the SAICSIT 2009 Conference. SAICSIT is the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, and there is a conference running in October of every year. This year I was lucky to be there and witness things myself. That doesn't make me just a spectator though! I presented my work in progress for my Masters to my peers on the 12th October, which was the first day of the conference. Thereafter, I had the honour to attend the presentations in the main SAICSIT conference. It was quite a nerve-wrecking experience indeed. There was positive feedback from the attendees although it culminated in an idiot throwing stupid questions which were way off my research topic! I took a while trying to get him to the theme of my research, but in vain! The worst was him referring to a "layman", at a conference attended by Computer Scientists and Information Technologist! how fun