All the buzz at AI's big shindig

"CORPORATE conferences still suck." So read the T-shirt sported by Ben Recht, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, as he collected an award at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference this week. Dr Recht, pictured above in lecture mode, was protesting against the flood of corporate money pouring into NIPS, aping the words Kurt Cobain wrote on a T-shirt when he appeared on the cover ofRolling Stonein 1992. "It's not an academic conference anymore," Dr Recht sa...