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ACM SIGGRAPH News — siggraph.org

ACM SIGGRAPH News — siggraph.org

FeedMeCoolShit.com The Official Site of Bill Gates - The Gates Notes SID - Society For Information Display SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. Overview[edit] Some highlights of the conference are its Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations, where recently created CG films are played. Dozens of research papers are presented each year, and SIGGRAPH is widely considered the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. In addition to the papers, there are numerous panels of industry experts set up to discuss a wide variety of topics, from computer graphics to machine interactivity to education. In 1984, under LucasFilm Computer Group, John Lasseter's first computer animated short, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premiered at SIGGRAPH. Conference areas[edit] SIGGRAPH Asia[edit]

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