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2026 Pioneers Featured Speaker Announced

Jul 14, 2026 |

Computer Graphics legend Don Greenberg is the ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers Featured Speaker for 2026!

Greenberg’s astonishingly multi-disciplinary career started in architecture, and has spanned the computer graphics revolution from its genesis in the 1960s. He has taught in the fields of architecture, engineering and computer science, while also being an elite athlete and life-long advisor to the tennis and soccer teams at Cornell. Greenberg’s teaching has covered computer-aided design in architecture as well as computer animation in the Department of Art, and he has simultaneously taught courses in computer science and technology strategy.

Greenberg received the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, its highest honor, and the 1989 NCGA Academic Award, the highest educational award given by the National Computer Graphics Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering; Fellow, Association for Computer Machinery; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the founding director of the 11-year National Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization.

Don will be sharing his thoughts on THE FUTURE OF SIGGRAPH, in what is sure to be one of the most memorable, pivotal and inspirational keynote conversations in our organization’s history. You do not want to miss this! 

Please note: Due to a format change, this session will be delivered via live stream for the onsite audience. The talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A, where questions will be taken from both live *and* online attendees.

 Attend Don’s presentation live by Zoom on 21 July at 10:00am Pacific:

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Call for Computer Animation Festival Advisory Board Chair

Jul 14, 2026 |

Deadline: 15 August 2026

The Computer Animation Festival Advisory Board is searching for an incoming chair. The Chair interacts with CAFAB members to help with high-level tasks and issues related to the upcoming SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festivals.  This extends to year-round activities like the Computer Animation Festival Traveling Show.

The Computer Animation Festival Advisory Board was established to elevate the role of the Computer Animation Festival (CAF) as a global asset for promoting SIGGRAPH (the conferences and the organization) to new communities and territories.  The CAFAB will provide guidance and support to the CAF Chairs for SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia. This group will also provide counsel to the CAG and SACAG as needed. Here is a link to a full description of the CAFAB.

The Computer Animation Festival Advisory Board (CAFAB) members are primarily past, current and future directors of the SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival.  The CAFAB was established to provide long term vision and consistency to both Computer Animation Festivals while helping to promote the SIGGRAPH Organization and Conferences.

As with other advisory groups, the CAFAB chair also interacts with other SIGGRAPH committees on issues pertaining to the CAF.

All applications will be sent to the ACM SIGGRAPH Project Manager at project-manager@acmsiggraph.org who will forward the applications to the relevant Advisory Board/Group and will copy the Chair of the Nominations Committee as an FYI. The Advisory Board/Group will nominate a person for the Chair position from the shortlist (of at least two names) of candidates who applied or were potential applicants and send this nomination to the EC for approval. Because the Chair of an Advisory Board/Group may want to run for a second term, an EC Director will manage this process, i.e., the SIGGRAPH Project Manager will forward the applications to the EC Director who will then forward the applications to the Advisory Board/Group, excluding the current Chair. The ACM SIGGRAPH Chair shall inform the approved candidate of the EC’s decision and copy the EC Director in charge of the process. If there were other candidates who were not selected, the EC Director will inform them of the decision. 

Practitioner Award Committee Chair

Jun 29, 2026 |

ACM SIGGRAPH is recruiting for the chair of the Practitioner Award Committee.

The SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the practice and advancement of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The award recognizes the very best and most influential applications and practitioners. The award includes a $2,000 cash prize.

The Chair solicits nominations for the Award by advertising the Award through the standard ACM SIGGRAPH channels, e.g., website, Interactions Newsletter, and social media during the late Fall and again in early January. Nominations for the Practitioner Award must be submitted to the Chair by January 31 of each year. The Chair may gather additional information on the nominees and maintains the list of previous nominees who did not receive the award as they may be carried forward as candidates.

The Practitioner Award Committee consists of five members who serve three-year terms. Each year one or two members rotate off, and new members join the committee. These new members are chosen by the Chair based on recommendations from past Committee members.  The Committee discusses the candidates over several sessions, gradually narrowing the candidate pool until a winner is selected. The Chair facilitates the conversation and takes notes of the committee’s decisions but does not contribute to selecting the award winner.

Once an awardee is selected, the chair works with the SIGGRAPH Awards chair to coordinate announcement of the selection and its presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference.

If interested in the position, please contact the SIGGRAPH Awards chair, Jeff Jortner. Applications for the position will close August 15,2025.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee Chair

Jun 29, 2026 |

ACM SIGGRAPH is recruiting for the chair of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee.

The SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is given annually to recognize an exceptional Ph.D. thesis in computer graphics and interactive techniques that has been defended in the 12 months before the nomination deadline. The award is presented to the winner during an award ceremony at the SIGGRAPH conference. Besides the award winner, one or two other candidates can receive an honorable mention. The criteria for the award are (1) the scientific impact and relevance of the research presented in the thesis as well as (2) the quality of the written thesis itself. In cooperation projects and joint publications, the individual contribution by the Ph.D. candidate should be clearly visible.

The chair of the award jury solicits nominations for the award by advertising the award through the standard ACM SIGGRAPH channels, e.g., website, interactions newsletter, and social media during late fall and again in early January. Nominations for the Dissertation Award must be submitted via the online nomination form by January 31st of each year.

The Dissertation Award jury consists of four to six members, including the chair. Jury members usually serve a three-year term. The decision about the Dissertation Award winner is made in three steps. In the remote reviewing phase (step 1), the nominations are assigned by the chair to jury members who write short reviews. Each nomination is assigned to at least two jury members. Each jury member creates a ranked list of the nominations that are assigned to them. In an online jury meeting, each nomination is discussed and a short list is distilled (step 2). Usually in the same meeting, a winner and potentially honorable mentions are then selected from the short list (step 3) based on further discussion or, if necessary, by voting.

Once an awardee is selected, the chair works with the SIGGRAPH Awards chair to coordinate announcement of the selection and its presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference.

If interested in the position, please contact the SIGGRAPH Awards chair, Jeff Jortner. Applications for the position will close August 15,2026.

ACM SIGGRAPH Announces 2026 Award Recipients and SIGGRAPH Academy Inductees

May 19, 2026 | ,

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) has announced the recipients of its 2026 honors, recognizing leaders whose work has shaped computer graphics, interactive techniques, digital art, visualization, animation, and the broader creative and technical communities.

This year’s awardees represent groundbreaking contributions across research, education, artistic practice, production technology, and service to the field. ACM SIGGRAPH also welcomes four distinguished individuals into the SIGGRAPH Academy for their sustained and influential contributions to computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Award recipients are:

Distinguished Educator Award
James Foley
In recognition of his pioneering work and sustained innovation in the fields of computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and information visualization.

Distinguished Artist Award
Claudia Hart
In recognition of her decades-long, internationally influential contributions to digital art, media theory, and experimental practice.

Significant New Researcher Award
Lingjie Liu
For outstanding contributions to neural representations and human performance animation.

Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Alexei Efros
For pioneering work in data-driven and machine learning approaches to a wide range of visual content generation, computational photography, and image and video editing tasks.

Practitioner Award
Florian Kainz
For his foundational role in developing the OpenEXR high-dynamic-range image format and for his pioneering contributions to the field of computational photography.

Outstanding Service Award
David Spoelstra
In recognition of his long-term, visionary, and dedicated service to ACM SIGGRAPH.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Guy Tevet
For pioneering a unified framework for human motion generation, combining text-guided animation through diffusion models with semantic control and physically realistic character motion.

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
Budmonde Duinkharjav

Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention
Ethan Tseng

ACM SIGGRAPH also recognizes the 2026 inductees to the SIGGRAPH Academy:

SIGGRAPH Academy Inductees

Hui Huang
For technical contributions to point-set processing and urban-scale reconstruction, and for sustained service to the graphics community.

Eitan Grinspun
For fundamental contributions to physically-based animation and the development of models bridging the gap between discrete and continuous mechanics.

Hongbo Fu
For fundamental contributions to sketch-based modeling and interactive 3D content creation, and for substantial leadership in the graphics community.

Ken Anjyo
For pioneering research in blendshapes and stylized rendering, and for sustained leadership in graphics and digital production.

The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program honors individuals whose achievements have advanced the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques through innovation, leadership, artistry, education, and service. The recipients will be recognized during SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.

Founded in 1969, ACM SIGGRAPH is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. ACM SIGGRAPH serves an international community of researchers, artists, developers, filmmakers, educators, and industry professionals advancing the fields of computer graphics, interactive techniques, visualization, animation, virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and digital art. Through its conferences, publications, educational initiatives, and year-round programming, ACM SIGGRAPH fosters innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the exchange of ideas shaping the future of technology and creative practice.