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  2. Symposium - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Greece, the symposium (Ancient Greek: συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, 'to drink together') was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation. [1]

  3. Symposium (Plato) - Wikipedia

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    One critic, James Arieti, considers that the Symposium resembles a drama, with emotional and dramatic events occurring especially when Alcibiades crashes the banquet. Arieti suggests that it should be studied more as a drama, with a focus on character and actions, and less as an exploration of philosophical ideas.

  4. Academic conference - Wikipedia

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    An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals and preprint archives, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between ...

  5. Symposium (Xenophon) - Wikipedia

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    A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Attic red-figure. The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a Socratic dialogue written by Xenophon in the late 360s B.C. [1] In it, Socrates and a few of his companions attend a symposium (a dinner party at which Greek aristocrats could enjoy entertainment and discussion) hosted by Kallias for the young man Autolykos.

  6. Encoding/decoding model of communication - Wikipedia

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    The decoding of a message is how an audience member is able to understand, and interpret the message. It is a process of interpretation and translation of coded information into a comprehensible form. The audience is trying to reconstruct the idea by giving meanings to symbols and by interpreting messages as a whole.

  7. Gossip protocol - Wikipedia

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    For example, a gossip protocol might employ some of these ideas: The core of the protocol involves periodic, pairwise, inter-process interactions. The information exchanged during these interactions is of bounded size. When agents interact, the state of at least one agent changes to reflect the state of the other. Reliable communication is not ...

  8. St. Gallen Symposium - Wikipedia

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    Plenary Sessions are divided into the One-on-One, where two people meet on stage, the Keynote Panel, a traditional panel discussion, and the Keynote Address, where a speaker delivers a speech. The roughly 30 Insight Sessions are held in smaller groups of about 25–35 attendees and serve as a follow-up to the Plenary Sessions.

  9. Source–message–channel–receiver model of communication

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    For Schramm, communication starts with an idea in the mind of the source. This idea is then encoded into a message and sent to the receiver. The receiver then has to decode and interpret the message to reproduce the original idea. [24] [25] [26] The concept of fields of experience plays a central role in this regard and was influential for ...