ACM SIGGRAPH News
From the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.
Congratulations to Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, John Monos, and Mark Sagar on their Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award win!
Congratulations to Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, John Monos, and Mark Sagar on their Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award win!
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 – a kaleidoscope of digital media experiences
As the four-day SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 drew to a close, approximately 6,500 visitors from more than 50 countries all across Asia and globally made their way to Pacifico Yokohama to participate in the region’s largest display of the latest in computer graphics, interactive techniques, and digital media and content. More than 500 artists, academics, and industry experts presented a vibrant array of thought-provoking works, breakthrough ideas and radical innovations at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Computer Animation Festival winners announced
Join us at the SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Computer Animation Festival award ceremony on 17 December 2009 to honor the well-deserved award winners! Lindsey Olivares will accept the Best of Show Award for her film "Anchored," and Alex Rabb from Digic Pictures in Hungary will accept the Best Technical Award for "Assassin's Creed 2".
Jun Rekimoto at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Jun Rekimoto (The University of Tokyo and Sony Computer Science Laboratories) will explains how pervasive human-cumputer connectivity based on advanced sensing technologies, and large-scale fusion of real and digital worlds, will change our physical space and what the user-interface challenges will be.
David Kirk at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
In this featured talk, David Kirk will review the evolution of GPU technology and will share his vision of how current work in academic and industrial labs around the world will be applied to future generations of computer graphics systems.
Walt Disney's Joe Rohde at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009
Joe Rohde, Executive Designer and Senior Vice President with Walt Disney Imagineering, is the third Featured Speaker for SIGGRAPH Asia. Entitled “Story Structure and the Design of Narrative Environments”, his talk will discuss the use of narrative structure as a guideline for the conceptualization and design of physical and virtual spaces…
Maneesh Agrawala awarded the 2009 MacArthur Fellow "Genius" Grant
SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher and Computer Vision Technologist Maneesh Agrawala, has been named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
ACM SIGGRAPH Announces the Technical Award Recipients
And the winners are: Robert L. Cook received the Steven Anson Coons Award, Michael Kass received the Computer Graphics Achievement Award and Wojciech Matusik received the Significant New Researcher Award
ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award given
ACM SIGGRAPH ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF NEW AWARD HONORING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIGITAL ART. This first year two awards have been given to Roman Verostko and Lynn Hershman Leeson. Congratulations Lynn and Roman!
