Computational geometry column
Joseph O’Rourke · ACM SIGACT News · 1988
The Fourth ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry [CG88] was held June 6-8, 1988 on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Champaign .Herbert Edelsbrunner, the conference chair, estimates attendance at 168 , with 37% of the attendees students (and 63% non-students), and about 22 % of the attendees from industry (with 78% affiliated with universities) .Th e conference chair Bernard Chazelle reports that 106 papers were submitted , and 39 (37%) accepted.Although the number of attendees and paper submissions have remained approximately constant over the four-year histor y of this symposium (175 attendees and 100 papers), there was a widespread feeling that this was the first year a large number of excellent papers coul d not be accommodated .This situation may be relieved next summer whe n there are two conferences : the Fifth