Who invented the concept of 'Technical Paper Presentation'?
Recently, one of my lecturers said it's compulsory to give a National Level Paper Presentation for all students. (they will give 5 extra marks to students who will show them their participation certificate! Duh! 😕)
I have seen students at different colleges giving paper presentation and mind you, the competitions are always "National Level" (even though nobody has ever heard of those college names)
Plus, I see that the organizers always keep the same topics when they call for papers.
Typically for Computer Science it is:
- Digital Image Processing
- Real Time Application
- Data Mining and Warehousing
- Security and Information assurance, etc.
- Natural Language Processing
Therefore, could someone explain what's the whole point in giving a technical paper presentation?
PS: I suppose they started this in the foreign countries for technology innovators to present their innovation before the mass audience and get reviews.