S2002 News

December and January have been very busy months for the S2002 committee.

December started off with the CAG reviewing and refining the S2002 conference budget which, later in the month, was presented to and approved by the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (EC). In addition to having our budget approved, the EC also approved a CRF initiative to basically fund the advancement of new technologies into the conference. This is a three year initiative starting with S2002 so we're excited about having the capabilities to curate some new works that may not have ordinarily been submitted. While all this was going on, Val was receiving a record number of Course submissions with a great selection of material.

January began where December left off and continued to build on the amount of things going on for the committee. After getting all the Course reviews in, the Courses jury met and, after a very difficult selection process, they whittled the nearly 100 viable courses down to the 59 to be held Sunday through Wednesday at S2002. In addition to Courses selecting content, the Papers and Educators deadlines came in the second week followed by the Panels submission deadline the following week. I'm told Capstone looked like a paper repository with all the deliveries that were being made. A record number of Paper submissions - Happy reading Spike!

We've now closed the month with the ETech submission deadline on the 30th. There have been a lot of email inquiries to Scott about the program so we'll all be interested in seeing what he has in store for us.

Everyone is busy with their programs and as we move into February. The first thing on our agenda is to make a decision about possibly changing our policy of accepting only original SAFs now that ACM will allow faxed signatures. We all seem to be in favor of making the change but we'll be quickly working out the logistics so that those programs whose submission deadlines are on the horizon have make use of this newly discovered policy change.

Phew, quite a couple of months and the exciting thing is that we're just getting started!

San Antonio Factoid: The Paseo del Rio, or River Walk, is the No. 1 visitor attraction in Texas. (Sorry, no, it's not the Freeman carpet cleaning facility in Dallas)

Stay tuned,

Tom appolloni@siggraph.org