We are happy to inform you that the topics of the keynote lectures to be presented at the first R user conference `useR! 2004' in Vienna (May 20-22th) are now available from the conference web page at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/Conferences/useR-2004/ The submission process for oral and poster presentations started this month and a web form for registration is available since last week. The Xmas days are a perfect time to write and submit an abstract, the final deadline for the submission of oral or poster presentations is February 15th, 2004. Authors will be notified about the acceptance of their contribution until March 15th. For poster presentations only, an extended final deadline ends April 15th. A poster highlighting the most important informations about the conference is available from the conference web page. It would be great if you could put up a poster in your department if only to demonstrate that using R is serious research and not only a hobby for computer geeks. We wish you a Merry Xmas, a Happy New Year and hope to see you in Vienna! Torsten, Achim, David. _______________________________________________ R-announce at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-announce