EC News -

First, a big congratulations and thanks to Tom Appoloni and his outstanding committee for bringing together the SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference in San Antonio.

Second, thanks go to Jan Hardenbergh and his group of intrepid reporters for making the SIGGRAPH Reporters a huge success, for the second year in a row. These 7 individuals managed to cover the conference from every angle, and their reports can be see at www.siggraph.org/conferences/reports/s2002.

And third, thank you to Stephen Matsuba and his Online team for capturing content from the Papers and Panels sessions, as well as select Courses and the Keynote.

Just before the conference, we came to agreement with Computer Graphics World to provide a news feed to siggraph.org. Along with the Conference Reports and Online Content, news feeds will be able to provide current information to our members.

The ACM SIGGRAPH booth was co-located this year with Chapters, Educators, ACM, and our welcome guests from our cooperating societies. The Saturday following the SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference, the Executive Committee held our annual onsite meeting, open to all members of the ACM SIGGRAPH community. At this meeting, we said goodbye to outgoing EC members Steve Cunningham, Alan Chalmers, Leo Hourvitz, Mike McGrath and David Ebert.

August will be quite for us, as we recover from the conference and gear up for the next year of exciting programs. As always, we seek volunteers for a variety of positions. For more information, be sure to check out the Volunteers Needed area on siggraph.org.

Gudrun enger@siggraph.org