For some reason, over the past year or so it's become almost standard in the humanities (but not in science/engineering). I'm in CS but occasionally go to interdisciplinary conferences, where every CS person will have a PowerPoint, while every humanist who has a digital presentation at all will have a Prezi (to a close approximation).
Ah, those happen too, though not as much at the type of interdisciplinary conferences where you'd also have a lot of humanities people--- seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory. I sort of prefer latex presentations myself, but just because I like editing source-code-like stuff rather than editing a presentation in a GUI tool.
> [...] seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory.
Indeed. At the International Conference on Functional Programming last year LaTeX was the norm. I enjoyed the hand-written slides somebody had produced on their tablet pc.
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For some reason, over the past year or so it's become almost standard in the humanities (but not in science/engineering). I'm in CS but occasionally go to interdisciplinary conferences, where every CS person will have a PowerPoint, while every humanist who has a digital presentation at all will have a Prezi (to a close approximation).
How did LaTeX-presentations fare?
Ah, those happen too, though not as much at the type of interdisciplinary conferences where you'd also have a lot of humanities people--- seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory. I sort of prefer latex presentations myself, but just because I like editing source-code-like stuff rather than editing a presentation in a GUI tool.
> [...] seems to be mainly a thing for people who need equations in their presentation, esp. in cs-theory.
Indeed. At the International Conference on Functional Programming last year LaTeX was the norm. I enjoyed the hand-written slides somebody had produced on their tablet pc.