I enjoyed MMSP’06 greatly and would like to thank the organizers for doing such a good job end-to-end.

--Chou Wu

--Colin Doutre

Although there is great value in the oral and poster presentations, I strongly believe that the keynote and invited lectures are the highlights of technical meetings like MMSP and should be a regular feature at these meetings.  I personally learned a great deal from each of the keynotes and invited lectures and I believe each of the speakers did an excellent job in providing sufficient detail and broad perspective on each topic.  Keep up these keynotes and invited lectures.

--Larry Rabiner

The workshop was very good. It was small enough to allow attendees to focus on almost everything that was going on, but big enough that there was good representation from different areas within our domain. The keynotes were outstanding, and the overviews were extremely useful, especially for attendees with little exposure to certain sub-specialties to be able to understand the current state-of-the-art of those particular areas before listening to the full oral presentations in that area. Something I would like to see in the future would be for the slides of the keynotes and the overviews to be included in the CD, and not just the proceedings. Would it be possible to make those available for attendees to last week’s edition? I look forward to next year’s workshop.

--Martinez Alfonso

Thank you for your efforts.  You did a great job of lining up really interesting keynote/overview lectures, as well as having an interesting mix of papers. It would be nice if a check box could be added to the paper submission form, so that the submitting author could indicate whether they would rather have an oral or poster session (and possibly how strong this preference is).  Some topics do not lend themselves to posters (highly mathematical developments) and some do not lend themselves to oral presentation (when there is an associated demo or when the author is hoping for more feedback from the audience. It would also be nice if the poster sessions had more support for laptop-based video or demos (power strips, tables, wired drops).  This might make it so that there is not a need for an explicit "demo session".

--Michele Covell

The workshop was very well organized.

--Pietro Zanuttigh

I found 6 overview sessions a bit too much. Maybe one per day is fine. One keynote might also be fine. I have found the 2 panels interesting. Interaction with the audience should be emphasized. Maybe the panel can start with some selected demos to trigger the interaction with the audience and to trigger a discussion about future research directions. I have no clear picture how a demo or hands-on session would look like, but the impact of such a session should be explored and tested.

--Markus Flierl

 I prefer that keynote lectures be included in the next MMSP, but only two at most. I prefer that overview lectures be included in the next MMSP, but only three at most (one per day). I prefer that panels be included in the next MMSP, but not more than one.

--Claudio Weidmann

I suggest having not more than one panel. I suggest having a more focused list of topics for discussion. Also I propose that the panel discussion have a topic that is fixed well before the event to allow a good preparation of all panelists and the audience as well.

--Wolfgang Theimer

I found the MMSP a very nice and interesting workshop. But poster session should not be in parallel to oral sessions.

--Markus Friebe

I would maintain the actual poster sessions (posters for one day).

--Federico Matta

I think that an approach like ICIP, where posters are not seen as a consolation prize, would be an improvement. This would enable both poster and oral sessions to be made more coherent. I would also like to see more discussion, perhaps in parallel sessions. This would enable small communities with a common interest to have very detailed discussions.

--Michael Frater

For the poster session, I'd like the session chair to briefly introduce every poster, e.g. make a brief walk-around.

--Igor Fischer

It will be good if materials like PPT are included in proceeding CD.

--Sh Kim

I wonder more meals should be included in the workshop. It would give participants more time to talk to one another.

--Sumit Roy