I was doing research for my project on Procedural Content generation last night, and I wanted to contact the author of one of the papers I was reading. When I put his name into google, I found his “reasons for leaving the field of computer graphics research.” He listed what he thought were serious probelms in the field, including a sort of arrogance and obsession with a particular conference. Apparently, everybody in the graphics field wants to present their work at one conference, so the competition is brutal. I absolutely loved a lot of the papers I read, but I did notice that most of the papers written in the past 15 years were all from the SIGGRAPH Annual Meeting proceedings. I hope I’m not considering going into a field with serious problems.