Literature Search Update

So going into undergrad, I (surprise) had no idea what it was I wanted to do with my life. My alma mater, therefore, was not the most prestegious of computer science schools. This was driven home to me over the weekend when I found out they had only one year of the proceedings of one neural network conference in their stacks. That year? 1992.

And since I can't check books out of the DC Consortium system as an alumnus, it looks like I'm going to be spending a lot of time reading in the libraries of GMU and UMD. Furthermore, when I say a lot of time, I mean a _lot_ of time. Assuming the 1992 IJCNN proceedings are representative, then I have an estimated 20,000 pages of very dense literature to search in order to cover the last five years of neural net and major general AI conferences.

A lot of that will get tossed out after a brief glance at the table of contents, but even if I throw out 9 out of every 10 published papers as not what I'm looking for, I will be reading a more over the coming months than I may ever have before.

And I can't wait.