Birds of a Feather

Monday - Friday, 11-15 August
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Presentations, discussions, and demonstrations for people who share interests, goals, technologies, environments, or backgrounds.

Birds of a Feather events are proposed by SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees. They must be free of charge, related to computer graphics or interactive techniques, open to all SIGGRAPH 2008 attendees, and non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or company are discouraged).

All requests for Birds of a Feather sessions are evaluated on a case-by-case basis to make sure they conform to SIGGRAPH 2008 rules. Sessions are scheduled in rooms at the Los Angeles Convention Center and at most SIGGRAPH 2008 hotels.

Birds of a Feather Online Submission Form

SIGGRAPH 2008 Birds of a Feather Sessions

Monday 11 August
International Virtual Reality Contest
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
11:30 am - noon
Akihiko Shirai
Shirai (at) mail.com

Blender Foundation: Community Meeting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
2 - 3:30 pm
Ton Roosendaal Ton (at) blender.org

Playing Nice: How to Teach Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
2 - 3:30 pm
Holly Rushmeier
Holly.rushmeier (at) yale.edu
Gitta Domik
Domik (at) uni-paderborn.de

Ai Career Services
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
4 - 5 pm
Jennifer Lasater
Jlasater (at) edmc.edu

Blender Foundation: Open Movie/Game Presentations
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
4 - 6 pm
Ton Roosendaal
Ton (at) blender.org

The 21st Anniversary CG Performance Show/Sake Barrel Opening at SIGGRAPH 2008
Wilshire Grand Los Angeles
Golden State Room
7:30 - 9:30 pm
Rica Okabe
ricaokabe (at) iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Reunion
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Garden East
8 - 11 pm
Bing Yu Chen
Robin (at) ntu.edu.tw

Tuesday 12 August
Bringing Visualization Into the Primary and Secondary Classroom
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
10 - 11 am
James Martinez
jamesmartinez (at) wyeriverupperschool.org

Web3D Consortium Member Meeting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
10 - 11:30 am
Anita Havele
Anita.havele (at) web3d.org

X3D Medical Working Group
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
10:30 am - noon
Michael Aratow
maratow (at) noegenesis.com

Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) Open Forum
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
Noon - 1:30 pm
Sue Gollifer
Sue.gollifer (at) googlemail.com

SCS Simulation and Computer Graphics BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
12:30 - 1:30 pm
John Richardson
Richards (at) spawar.navy.mil

ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Project Birds of a Feather Meeting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
12:30 - 2:30 pm
Theresa Marie Rhyne
tmrhyne (at) ncsu.edu

Teaching Math Through Game Development
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
2 - 3:30 pm
Mitch Williams
Mitch.williams(at) 3d-online.com

Temerity Pipeline Users Group
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
2 - 5pm
Jim Calllahan
Jim (at) temerity.us

Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Xray Halperin
Xray (at) agentxray.com

Biomedical Visualization
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
3 - 4:30 pm
Drew Berry
Berry (at) wehi.edu.au

Motion Graphics Creators
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
4 - 6 pm
Gil Conoa
Gil at conoa.com

OpenSG BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
5 - 6 pm
Dirk Reiners
mail (at) dirkreiners.com

Rochester Institute of Technology
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
5 - 6 pm
James Ferwerda
Jaf (at) cis.rit.edu

Computer Graphics Pioneers Reception (open to Pioneers only)
Wilshire Grand Los Angeles Hotel
Rosewood
6 - 9 pm
Ingrid Carlbom
icarlbom (at) comcast.net

UNC Chapel Hill Reunion
Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown
Santa Monica Room
8 - 11 pm
Herman Towles
Herman (at) cs.unc.edu

Tokyo ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Party
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Golden State
9 - 11 pm
Yukio Ando
Yukio.ando (at) gmail.com

Wednesday 13 August
Women in Animation
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
8 - 10 am
Pamela Thompson
pambo (at) q.com

Where Do You Send Your High School Graduate?
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
9 – 10 am
James Martinez
jamesmartinez (at) wyeriverupperschool.org

Undergraduate Computer Graphics Research Alliance
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
9 - 10:30 am
William Joel
Joelw(at) wcsu.edu

Spatial 3D Interfaces in Video Games
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
9 - 10:30 am
Joseph La Viola, Jr.
jjl (at) cs.ucf.edu

DIVERSE-Flexible Open Source VE API
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
10:30 - 11:30 am
John Kelso
Kelso (at) nist.gov

Use of CAD Data Through X3D
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
10:30 am - noon
Alan Hudson
giles (at) oz.net

Educating the Animator-Teaching Animation and Game Design in a University Setting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
11 am - 12:30 pm
Adam Crespi
acrespi (at) digipen.edu

Open Scene Graph BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
Noon - 1 pm
Mike Weiblen
Mew(at) mew.cx

Legal and Business Issues Faced by Emerging Companies in the Computer Graphics and Interactive Communities
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
Noon - 1:30 pm
Megan Sullivan
msullivan (at) fr.com

MUVE Moot: Multiuser Virtual Environments Meeting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
12:30 - 2:30 pm
Chris Thorne
Dragonmagi (at) gmail.com

Molecular Graphics
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Michael Pique
Mp (at) Scripps.edu

IGDA Game Development Series
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
2 - 3 pm
Jason Della Rocca
Jason (at) igda.org

3D Printing for Art and Visualization
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
3 - 4 pm
Michael Pique
Mp (at) Scripps.edu

AnimationMentor.com
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
3 - 4:30 pm
Molly Wolfsher
Molly (at) animationmentor.com

Friends of the Art Institutes
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
4 - 5:30 pm
Jennifer Lasater
Jlasater (at) edmc.edu

The Leonardo Education Forum (LEF)
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
4 - 6 pm
Andrea Polli
Apolli (at) hunter.cuny.edu

Ringling College Alumni Reception
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Glenwood
4 - 6 pm
Terri Arnell
Tarnell (at) ringling.edu

Ohio SIGGRAPH Members
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
4:30 - 5:30 pm
John Bowditch
Bowditch (at) ohio.edu

ACCAD Alumni Gathering
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Garden West
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Elaine Smith
Elaine (at) accad.osu.edu

That's How We do Feature Animation in Europe!
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
5 - 6 pm
Irene Sparre
Irene (at) irenesparre.dk

Purdue University Reunion
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Garden East
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Jim Sprinkles

Testing, CM, and Computer Graphics
Holiday Inn City Center
San Jose A
6 - 7:3 0pm
Anna Newman
Anewman (at) pdi.com

Alumni Reception-Syracuse University
Wilshire Grand
Chandler
6 - 8 pm
Susan Tooley
Sktooley (at) syr.edu

Open GL BOF
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Wilshire Room
6 - 8 pm
Elizabeth Riegel
Elizabeth (at) goldstandardgroup.com

Stony Brook University Center for Visual Computing Reunion
Wilshire Grand Hotel
Balboa
6 - 9 pm
Stella Mannino
Stella (at) cs.sunysb.edu

Thursday 14 August
Teaching Computer Graphics in Context in Computer Science
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
9 - 10 am
Steve Cunningham
Rsc (at) cs.csustan.edu

SIGGRAPH K-12 Primary/Secondary Membership Drive
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
10 -11 am
James Martinez
jamesmartinez (at) wyeriverupperschool.org

X3D Working Group
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
10:30 am - noon
Don Brutxman
brutzman (at) nps.navy.mil

IMERSA: Immersive Media Entertainment, Research, Science, and Art
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
11 am - 1 pm
Ed Lantz
Ed (at) visualbandwidth.com

Khronos Handheld API BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
11 am - 2 pm
Elizabeth Riegel
Elizabeth (at) goldstandardgroup.com

Nordic TD Forum-CG Artist Network in the Nordic Region
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
Noon - 1 pm
Irene Sparre
Irene (at) irenesparre.dk

The RenderMan Community of Japan
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
1:30 - 2 pm
Bernard Edlington
Bernard (at) nexusinternational.jp

331 BC to 21st-Century Digital and Encaustics
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
2 - 4 pm
Dona Geib
Djgeib (at) earthlink.net

CG-ARTS and EIZO SHUMBUN: Community Meeting
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
2 - 4 pm
Ayumi Miyai
Miyai (at) cgarts.jp

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Educator's Forum
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 307
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Barry Weiss
barry (at) imageworks.com

X3D Humanoid
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 507
3:30 - 5 pm
Keith Victor
kvictor (at) mediamachines.com

COLLADA BOF
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 511A
4 - 6 pm
Elizabeth Riegel
Elizabeth (at) goldstandardgroup.com

California Arts, Media, and Entertainment Educators
Los Angeles Convention Center
Room 501A
4:30 - 6:30pm
Kathleen Milnes
Kmilnes (at) entertainmentecon.org

GITCT: CGI Development Opportunities with Korea
Wilshire Grand
Garden East
4:30 - 8:00 pm
Byungwook Lee
m.son (at) entertainmentasia.com

IPAX: Faculty Development Opportunities in Visual Effects and Animation
Los Angeles Convention Centerr
Room Room 307
5 - 6 pm
Sande Scoredosr
Sande (at) imageworks.com

Friday 15 August
DGIA (Dynamic Information-Generated Interactive Art): The Beauty of Information
Los Angeles Convention Center
1 - 1:30 pm
Room 501A
Umyot Boonmarlart
Umyot (at) gmail.com