How Can SIGGRAPH Be More Effective in Promoting Computer Graphics? How can or should SIGGRAPH foster a vigorous public policy agenda for computer graphics research, development, and applications? SIGGRAPH has the potential to affect all walks of life, industry, and academia by actively addressing certain public policy issues. The panel and the audience define and debate the potential agenda. Organizer Nahum D. Gershon The MITRE Corporation Panelists Jose Encarnação Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Bob Ellis Alain Chesnais Alias | Wavefront Donald P. Greenberg Cornell University Bran Ferren Walt Disney Imagineering Webbed Spaces: Between Exhibition and Network Webbed Spaces, a roundtable panel discussion, brings together artists, curators, and theorists, each of them actively engaged with the Internet in their own practice. They discuss works that emphasize public installation and multi-user approaches, and use these works as points of departure to begin a critical discussion of the Internet and its implications for artmaking, representation, and interactivity. Co-Organizers Perry Hoberman Telepresence Research Victoria Vesna University of California, Santa Barbara Panelists Lorne Falk Consultant Ken Feingold School of Visual Arts Laura Kurgan University of Pennsylvania Stelarc Artist Advanced Television for the United States: Status and Issues An advisory commission on advanced television service (ACATS), appointed by the FCC, is recommending deployment of a new television system that includes interlace, 59.94 and 60 Hz, and non-square pixel spacing. These parameters are fundamentally incompatible with modern computer graphics displays, which do not use interlace, and which operate at display rates exceeding 70 Hz. The panel discusses and debates these issues. Organizer Gary Demos DemoGraFX Panelists Alvy Ray Smith Microsoft Corporation Craig Birkmaier Pcube Labs Glenn Reitmeier Sarnoff Labs Mark Richer Advanced Television Systems Committee The Soul of the Machine: The Search for Spirituality in Cyberspace In 1964, Marshall McLuhan prophesied a collective consciousness made possible by electronic technology. Thirty years later, through the Internet, virtual reality, and mass digitization, McLuhan's vision is being realized beyond even his wildest dreams. This panel brings together a diverse array of individuals actively involved in creating work that explores the spiritual impact and meaning of life in the digisphere. Organizer Celia Pearce momentum media group Panelists Mark Pesce Author Paul Godwin Gravity, Inc. Char Davies Softimage Rita Addison Artist Issues in Networking for Entertainment, Graphics, and Data The next generation of networking combines the telecommunications and data communications industries. Experts discuss this phenomenon and other technologies and issues related to networking in the entertainment, graphics, and media fields. The discussion focuses on the technology behind integrated networking for film, video, and audio distribution, as well as generic computer networking. Organizer Marke Clinger FORE Systems, Inc. Panelists A. Mark Valenti Sextant Group Chuck Garsha Paramount Pictures Ray Feeney RFX Bob Amen Cinesite James D. McCabe Full Spectrum Communications, LLC Graphics PCs Will Put Workstation Graphics in the Smithsonian Graphics accelerators for personal computers are rapidly becoming cheaper and more powerful. The panelists consider whether this development spells the end of graphics workstations as we have known them. Organizer Samuel P. Uselton MRJ, Inc./NASA Ames Research Center Panelists Michael Cox S3, Inc. Michael Deering Sun Microsystems Computer Company Jay Torborg Microsoft Corporation Kurt Akeley Silicon Graphics, Inc. Cognition, Perception, and Experience in the Virtual Environment: Do You See What I See? Panelists compare and contrast cognitive, perceptual, and experiential modes of learning as they relate to immersive, interactive, real-time simulations. They also formulate an approach for applying these modes to design of useful virtual environments. This panel intends to establish a precedent: panelists and the audience will launch an effort within the SIGGRAPH community to establish a much-needed stylistic guide to designing, building, and displaying virtual environments. Organizer Linda Jacobson Silicon Graphics, Inc. Panelists Creve Maples MUSE Technologies Brenda Laurel Interval Research Mark Pesce Author Char Davies Softimage Rob Tow Interval Research Mark Schlager SRI International

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