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Introduction: This is a reminder that many deadlines for summer conference registration are coming up, and attendance is a very good idea. It’s entirely reasonable for anyone to visit a conference once, even when they don’t have a paper. For students, visiting a conference is almost a ‘must’—there is no where else that a broad cross-section of research is on display. Workshops are also a very good idea. ICML has 11 , KDD has 9 , and AAAI has 19 . Workshops provide an opportunity to get a good understanding of some current area of research. They are probably the forum most conducive to starting new lines of research because they are so interactive. Tutorials are a good way to gain some understanding of a long-standing direction of research. They are generally more coherent than workshops. ICML has 7 and AAAI has 15 .
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