MICCAI 2016 Daily - Thursday

MICCAI Daily: I’m at the Springer booth with Wayne Wheeler , who is Senior Editor for Computer Science at Springer London . I see you display your catalogue in many scientific conferences. Why do you come and propose your books here, and what kind of books are they? Springer: Two main reasons: Basically, Springer is the number one world publisher in proceedings of scientific conferences of all sciences. MICCAI, of course, has been one of our core audiences for many years. We publish the proceedings for MICCAI so we always want to be here to support the MICCAI communities. We like to showcase our journals, our books, our proceedings, and all of our products to let the community know that we support them in whatever publications they have or ideas that they might have and to answer questions. We come here to meet face to face and support them. MICCAI Daily: Is there still a place for paper in this kind of business? Springer: Absolutely - Thank you for the question. Books actually are surging again. We’re finding data to support that. Whereas, under the electronic revolution, books started to decline, they are starting to come back up, especially textbooks because students don’t prefer looking at and studying online. They prefer paper. We’re increasingly publishing only in electronic for journals. Although journals are more preferred in electronic form, regarding books, many people like to hold them in their hands. MICCAI Daily: You have certainly met a lot of young people and students around different conferences. What makes MICCAI special and what particularly charms you with the people that you meet here? Springer: [ laughs ] This is a tricky question, but one thing that I really appreciate about the MICCAI crowd is that it is very international. Some conferences that I attend are really focused on one or two major markets or major regions of the world. MICCAI is very international. There’s a great dynamic and mixture of people from academia and industry, and a great mixture of age groups. We get to meet and support young talent and also nurture long standing relationships. Springer 23 MICCAI Daily: Thursday