Project Number

324

Title

Tomorrow's Yesterday: Mapping the E-Tech Continuum

Description

Navigable visual history of SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies programs, 1991 - 2002.

Contact

John M. Fujii

Affiliation

Hewlett-Packard Company

Address

3404 East Harmony Road 
Fort Collins, Colorado 80528-9599

E-mail

etech-map@siggraph.org

WWW

http://www.siggraph.org/~fujii/etech/history.html

Year

2002

Reference

SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"In computer graphics, history frames the possible, imagination paints the impossible, and passion fills in the rest. This history-mapping project recognizes the visionaries, explorers, artists, and pioners who have shaped the Emerging Technologies programs since 1991. It is today's starting point to 'what is next' and 'who might take us there.'" 
 
"The project idea grew from inspirations by ancient explorers' maps. Maps elegantly tell the story of exploration by revealing the fluid edges of 'the known' and 'unknown' and providing a visual context for 'where to explore next.'" 
 
"The final results reveal a compelling look at evolution and revolution in action. The data follow journeys of now familiar themes such as hypertext, virtual reality, visualization, distributed interaction, simulation, avatars, spatial sound, autonomous agents, communities, telepresence, machine recognition, tangible interfaces, and immersive sensory feedback." 
 
"We believe that this project will be an ongoing community effort to appreciate and build upon SIGGRAPH's heritage."

Sight

Emerging Technologies historical map, database, and analysis

Sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

3 - Application (expression, enabler)

Primary

306 - education

Secondary

306 - education

Remarks

 


Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH, Copyright © 2002 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
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