That's how you can guess my age: NIPS in my head always was more prestigious due to more math-y content, but otherwise similarly well known as ECML ;)
That's how you can guess my age: NIPS in my head always was more prestigious due to more math-y content, but otherwise similarly well known as ECML ;)
From my experience starting Berlin Buzzwords: one thing that's easier with a new name is building up your own format without influence from existing expectations. But that needs buy in from multiple influential ppl out of the community.
Like entirely new name, not even taking ECML.