> maybe not bloated fields like AI/HCI/graphics Having reviewed papers in the 'bloated' graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a part

> maybe not bloated fields like AI/HCI/graphics Having reviewed papers in the 'bloated' graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a particular paper. > This may not be obvious to the normal grad student, but after a decade in a community of 1K-10K people The communities are smaller than that. Within sub-fields in graphics, you usually have perhaps five or six research groups to guess from.