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		An Introduction to Digital Effects Visual effects are a mystery to those who are not involved in the process. This paper summarized the basic concepts and the pieces that make up the picture. Steve Wright Cinesite Visual Effects 1017 North Las Palmas Avenue Los Angeles, California 90038 USA wright@cinesite.com
		Creating 2D Animation Compositing and 2D animation are exciting fields for digital artists, effects editors, and designers. But they need to understand the basic software. Marco Paolini Digital FilmWorks 3330 Cahuenga Boulevard West, Suite 300 Los Angeles, California 91351 USA marco@dfw-la.com
		Creating 3D Animation 3D computer animation is everywhere, from Saturday morning cartoons to high-end feature film creatures and effects. What may not be obvious, though, is how these effects were created. This presentation covered the basics of the production tasks of the 3D artist. Eric Hanson Dream Quest Images 3509 Purdue Avenue Los Angeles, California 90066 USA ehanson@loop.com
		Computer Camp: For Girls Only! A Web-based computer camp for girls only helps thwart the image of computer and math-related activities as male dominions. Graphic design, interactivity, and human-interface concepts are emphasized. Rebecca Mercuri University of Pennsylvania P.O. Box 1166 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105 USA mercuri@acm.org
		Organizing Summer Computer Graphics Courses How the annual Computer Graphics Summer Camp at Purdue University is organized and operated for students from all states and territories in the United States. Mark W. McK. Bannatyne Purdue University Department of Computer Graphics 1419 Knoy Hall, Room 363 West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1419 USA mwbannatyne@tech.purdue.edu
		The Atmosphere: Incorporating Interactive Multimedia into the Classroom This multimedia alternative was inspired by an introductory atmospheric science class in which the instructor described precipitation processes by drawing pictures and waving his hands. MaryEllen Coleman IBM Corporation 70 Rossway Road Pleasant Valley, New York 12569 USA mea@us.ibm.com
		The Round Earth Project: Collaborative VR for Elementary School Kids An ImmersaDesk, a stereo-capable monitor, and a collaboration among researchers in computer science, education, and psychology investigating two alternative pedagogical strategies help teach children that the Earth is spherical. Andrew Johnson Electronic Visualization Laboratory EECS Department (M/C 154) University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Illinois 60607-7053 USA aej@evl.uic.edu
		Exploratories: An Educational Strategy for the 21st Century What computer-based learning environment will students of all ages be immersed in five, 10, or 20 years from now? And, how can we best prepare for learning and teaching in that environment? The Exploratories project uses the introductory undergraduate computer graphics course as a testbed to address these questions. Rosemary Michelle Simpson Brown University Computer Science Department Box 1910 Waterman Street, 4th Floor Providence, Rhode Island 02912 USA rms@cs.brown.edu
		ThinkQuest: Students & Teachers Exploring a Global Web-Based Education Project (See also Playground) ThinkQuest challenges teachers and students of all ages to use the Internet in innovative and exciting ways as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool. In this panel, students and teachers discussed the process of creating a Web-based educational resource. Robert Sibley Advanced Network & Services Educational Project Manager 200 Business Park Drive Armonk, New York 10504 USA sibley@advanced.org
		SP3D and The Lighthouse: Explorations in 3D Internet Learning (See also Playground) "Shakey's Place 3D" and "The Lighthouse," Web sites designed to breathe life into Shakespeare, philosophy, and the students who study them, use 3D graphics to create striking environments that increase the educational value of interactive devices. (A ThinkQuest project.) Clint Andrew Hall Rockhurst College 1240 SW Crossing Drive Lee's Summit, Missouri 64081 USA st076437@vax1.rockhurst.edu
		Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? (See also Playground; Workshop) How US high school computer graphics students collaborated with partners in Sweden to investigate the centuries-old enigma: Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling? (A ThinkQuest project.) Steve Feld John F. Kennedy High School 99 Terrace View Avenue Bronx, New York 10463 USA sjfeld@erols.com
		Web Pages, Interactive Interfaces, and Worm Holes: The Next Generation of User Interface Designers In the spring of 1998, a group of fifth- and sixth-grade students worked with a team of information development professionals from IBM while learning computer technology and teamwork. This panel included a 20-minute videotape documenting the experience and exploring the students' Web sites. Carol Bahruth MaryEllen Coleman IBM Corporation 70 Rossway Road Pleasant Valley, New York 12569 USA mea@us.ibm.com
		Proposal Writing 101: Ensuring Your Submission is Understood Contributing submissions to the annual SIGGRAPH conference can be frustrating when you don't know the submission, review, and jury process. This presentation gave the hopeful presenter some inside information and discussed some basic rhetorical considerations to ensure that the proposal is considered on the merit of its content. Tom Burkhart University of Iowa 308 East Burlington #107 Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1602 USA thomas-burkhart@uiowa.edu
		Get a Job! A Recruiter Tells You What You Need to Know What does it take to get a job at a visual effects, traditional animation, or inter-active company? This session summarized how to put your life and your talent - or your students' life and talent - on a one-page résumé and a three-minute-or-less demo reel. Pamela Thompson Independent Recruiter 10173 Sully Drive Sun Valley, California 91352 USA pamrecruit@aol.com
		Virtual Harlem (See also Playground) Students visualize the setting and context of fictional texts in a computer-generated environment that reconstructs approximately 10 square blocks of Harlem in the 1920s (the Harlem Renaissance period). Bryan Carter University of Missouri-Columbia 100 Locust Street Building Columbia, Missouri 65211 USA ccbryanc@atc.missouri.edu
		When Children Draw in 3D (See also Playground; Workshop) A student animation project in which children tell stories, draw, and work with modeling compound to create characters and scenery, and then produce their stories on computers. Katiuska Varela Independent Artist Calle Semprun Qta OLIM Sta Monica Caracas, Venezuela kvbmaz@hotmail.com
		Museums and Computer Games (See also Playground) How curators, writers, interactive designers, producers, and educators, each with different agendas, work together to create an entertaining learning environment for young museum visitors. Liz Caffry Elisabeth Cameron Los Angeles County Museum of Art Carla Roth Think Jacobson & Roth 1242 South Stanley Avenue Los Angeles, California 90019 USA croth@primenet.com Bill Zullo Z-Digital
		The Teacher's Mid-Life Crisis: Moore's Stairmaster of the Fittest Teachers face a serious challenge: the ongoing obsolescence of knowledge and skills, and the imperative to continually upgrade those facets to keep pace with technology and culture. Gregory P. Garvey 72 Ralston Avenue Hamden, Connecticut 06517 USA
		A Creative Journey (See also Playground) This panel explored a virtual exhibition of the "Space Field" series, which can be viewed anywhere on a personal computer and shows how art can be the conduit to teaching young children about the worlds of computers and science. Bob Goldstein Digital Consultant Jane Raphael Wonderland Avenue School Victor Raphael Victor Raphael Productions 328 North Irving Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90004-1508 USA v.raphael@worldnet.att.net
		Developing Creativity: A Curriculum Based on the Use of Computer Graphics Technology (See also Playground; Workshop) A practical curriculum that unleashes students' creative potential using state-of-the-art computer graphics technology and provides a pathway for students to explore, develop, and realize their individual creative potential. Jeremy Sutton Portrayals 245 Everett Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 USA
		Drawing & Learning London-based art and design institutions are developing a family of products to address the important subject of drawing. The focus is on developing a student's visual literacy. Robin Baker Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication Walden Road Chislehurst Kent BR7 5SN England r.baker@rave.ac.uk
		Art and Technology: Electronic Resources From the Getty ArtsEdNet: A Web Site in Progress ArtsEdNet consists of over 2,000 pages of curriculum resources, including lesson plans and online images from around the world. In this paper, the ArtsEdNet team detailed how the site became an expansive and extensive Web resource.   Exploring the Artworlds of Los Angeles: Worlds of Art This innovative Web curriculum resource provides lessons that tap Los Angeles' many artists, museums, community art programs, and public art.   Presenting and Managing Electronic Visual Resources: The Getty Experience How the Getty Education Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum collaborated to produce online exhibitions focusing on two of the Museum's opening exhibitions. Ria Bagaybagayan Getty Education Institute for the Arts 1200 Getty Center Drive Suite 600 Los Angeles, California 90049-1683 USA kbagayan@getty.edu Candace M. Borland Naree Wongse-Sanit Getty Education Institute for the Arts Anne-Marie Schaaf J. Paul Getty Museum
		Integrating Art and Technology in a State-Wide Curriculum This panel discussed issues related to how and why arts instruction in California public schools can be supported with contemporary technologies to enhance student learning and their preparation for life after graduation. Taylor Gutermute California Department of Education Lynn Hickey Los Angeles Unified School District 7829 Goodland Avenue North Hollywood, California 91605 USA John Hughes Rhythm & Hues Studio Alan Warhaftig Fairfax Magnet High School for the Arts
		Digital Design Education at UCLA (See also Playground) Panelists discussed the digitally oriented curriculum of the design department at the University of California, Los Angeles and presented examples of student work. The department completely revised its program three years ago to incorporate digital technologies. Rebecca Allen Mits Kataoka Cameron McNall Design Department University of California, Los Angeles 1300 Dickson Art Center Los Angeles, California 90066 USA cmcnall@ucla.edu Gail Swanlund University of California, Los Angeles
		The Integration of Graphics, Video, Science, and Communication Technologies As part of a Sister City project, students developed a Web site that allows science students, teachers, government officials, university personnel, and environmental scientists and engineers to share data, graphics, video, and artwork about the South Florida Everglades and the Hula Valley in Israel. D. Cauffield Glenn Dame Kevin J. Meehan Robert Wickman Forest Hill Community High School 412 SW 10th Avenue Boynton Beach, Florida 33435 USA hfore29@bellsouth.net
		The 4D Virtual Museum of the City of Bologna, Italy (See also Playground; Workshop) The process of integrating historical and graphic resources with current computer graphics technology to create a virtual time machine that plunges the participant into 12th century Bologna, Italy. Francesca Bocchi University of Bologna via Zamboni 34 Bologna, Italy 40126 bocchi_f@biblio.cib.unibo.it Marla Elena Bonfigli Manuela Ghizzoni Rosa Smurra University of Bologna Fernando Lugli Centro Ricerche S.C.r.l.
		Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Digital and Traditional Skills in Undergraduate Education A no-holds-barred debate on the challenges of balancing digital techniques in a fine art curriculum. Illustrations from faculty and students demonstrated the creative advantages of applying traditional skills in developing the most elaborate computer animations. Jeremy Butler Adrian Getzoff Kathy Griswold Jeffrey Lerer John McIntosh School of Visual Arts 209 East 23rd Street New York, New York 10010-3994 USA jmacsva@earthlink.net Joel Sevilla
		High-End Interactive Media in the Museum How high-end interactive media, computer graphics applications, and virtual reality technology are used in museums. Particular focus was given to projects created by the Foundation of the Hellenic World, which uses immersive virtual reality, VRML, and 3D graphics to reconstruct archeological sites, historical interpretation, and education. Maria Roussou Dimitris Efraimoglou Foundation of the Hellenic World 38 Poulopoulou Street Athens 11851 Greece mr@fhw.gr
		Going Farther in Less Time: Responding to Change in Introductory Graphics Courses The field of computer graphics has matured greatly since the formal statement of the introductory undergraduate course was created for ACM/IEEE Curriculum 91. This panel described a philosophical basis for change and gave examples of courses that are responding to the change. Steve Cunningham California State University, Stanislaus Scott Grissom University of Illinois at Springfield Lewis E. Hitchner California Polytechnic State University Rosalee Wolfe DePaul University School of CTI 243 South Wabash Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60604 USA wolfe@cs.depaul.edu
		Incorporating Principles and Examples from Art/Design and Film/Video into a CS Computer Graphics Course How principles and examples from art and design, film, and video can be incorporated into a computer science computer graphics course. Scott Owen Georgia State University Department of Mathematics & Computer Science 30 Pryor Street, Suite 750 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 USA owen@siggraph.org
		Math: What's the Use? Behind all great (and not so great) computer graphics images stands a great lady: Mathematics. This presentation reviewed the mathematics used in generating graphics images, from Euclidean geometry to the basics of spline interpolation. Valerie Miller Georgia State University Department of Mathematics & Statistics Atlanta, Georgia 30303 USA valerie_miller@siggraph.org
		Math and Computer-Generated Effects: Tools of the Trade Mathematical principles as they appear as visual effects in major feature films. Marcus Mitchell, a software designer at Digital Domain, showed examples of work, including "Titanic," "The Fifth Element," "Supernova," and "The Fight Club." Marcus Mitchell Digital Domain Software Development 1645 Crescent Place Venice, California 90291 USA marcus@d2.com
		The Future in Computer Graphics Education Recommendations for the future of computer graphics education from the Computer Graphics and Visualization Education Workshop (GVE 99), co-sponsored by Eurographics and SIGGRAPH, 3-5 July in Coimbra, Portugal. Judith R. Brown University of Iowa Dena E. Eber Bowling Green State University Werner Hansmann University of Hamburg Michael B. McGrath Colorado School of Mines Division of Engineering Golden, Colorado 80401 USA mike_mcgrath@siggraph.org Jose Carlos Teixeira University of Coimbra
		Creative Programming: Merging the Artist With the Computer Programmer (See also Playground) The Creative Programming Program at the University of Gävle is unique in its approach to education and selection of students. It allows highly creative and intelligent people to enhance their abilities in the world of digital media by combining their skills from other areas, such as art or programming. Mark Ollila University of Gävle Kungsb¨ckvagen Gävle SE-80 176 Sweden molly@hig.se