Today is the middle day of the 3-day DocEng 2009 ACM Symposium (not including the Workshop held before the Symposium, which was on document versioning). The website is http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/, and the program is available at http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/download/program.pdf. Please contact me on any questions/comments on the conference.

The conference focuses on the engineering of documents. Documents are intentionally crafted information items, such as the "traditional" paper or electronic word processing/form/record. Engineering involves innovation on performance, reliability, system efficiency, etc. Combined, this means working to build efficacious systems focused on the conveyance of information. Now, perhaps you can see how this relates to security printing for brand protection.

My presentation (just finished a couple of hours ago) is posted at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2009/HPL-2009-177.html.

The conference is in Munich, and with the long days of talks and meetings, all I've seen of Munich is at night. With Oktoberfest coming this weekend, the streets have not been empty, even though the working day has ended around midnight.

Typical Street Scene

Rathaus

I won't get to stay for Oktoberfest, so these early morning images will have to suffice. Besides, the conference is quite good, regardless of location (it's actually on an Army base!). And, my legs are not the right kind for Lederhosen (http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/).

Cheers,

Steve