Just to add, the famed IITs (Indian Institute of Technologies) do have exchange programs. But the living conditions in most IITs will not suit (you might call them appalling by US college standards) most americans. So choose the institute properly (IIT delhi, e.g., might be a better choice than IIT Kharagpur). But, yes, India will be a good economical choice. And almost all institutes in India have english as their medium of teaching, so language won't be a problem at all.

PS: I am from IIT Kharagpur.

But what explains the fictional author being chosen as a session chair?

This is a conference not a journal. CS journals do go through multiple revisions, conference acceptance usually don't go through any. If any, they go through atmost one, which may or may not be compulsory.

Computer Science is not just algorithms and programming :). So a list of other important books:

* Introduction to Graph Theory - Douglas B West

* Computer Architecture - John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson

* Switching and Finite Automata Theory - Zvi Kohavi

* Compilers - Aho Ullman and Sethi (the dragon book)

* An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking - Keshav

And if you are going to be writing papers, don't forget to read "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk.

I feel like you posted the first comment as AC to set yourself up nicely for the "Two buttons;" joke.

Karma whore!

My countrymen are confused. The top ten how-to lists has most people trying to figure out "how to reduce weight" (#1) while some are trying to find "how to gain weight" (#6). Men are trying "to impress a girl" (#9), while women are trying "to get pregnant" (#4).

And everyone else wants to learn to play guitar, learn english, create a website, make money and kiss (in no particular order).

They are going to support extensions. The list includes content-filtering extensions like ad-block.