President's Corner- What did you tell us via the virtual conference survey?
About a month ago we sent out a survey asking for your thoughts about what the virtual SIGGRAPH 2020 should look like. Here is a summary of what we learned from the survey.
Slate of Candidates for the ACM SIGGRAPH Director Positions Announced
The ACM SIGGRAPH election window is now open and will remain open until at 16:00 UTC, 14 August 2020.
Honoring the Outstanding Achievements and Service of our Community
ACM SIGGRAPH and Awards Chair John (Spike) Hughes are thrilled to announce the recipients of the ACM SIGGRAPH awards for achievements and service.
President’s Corner - We stand with you.
I would like to offer support to members of our ACM SIGGRAPH family and acknowledge the pain and injustice faced by the African American community on a daily basis.
The 2019 ACM Turing Award: Celebrating SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics Achievements
On March 18, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced that Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull and Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan had jointly received the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their respective fundamental contributions to 3D computer graphics and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.
Photo by Jim Hagarty © 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH
Stay Inspired: Virtual Education From SIGGRAPH
With much of the globe turning to virtual inspiration, we at ACM SIGGRAPH want to keep our community inspired. We share our top three SIGGRAPH University course recordings as well as the top three most-streamed SIGGRAPH Spotlight podcast episodes.
Photo by Dina Douglass © 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH
Upcoming Events
SCF 2020 – Postponed
SCA 2020
I3D 2020 conference postponed to September 15-17 (tentative)
SAP 2020 – Virtual
Digital Library Selections
Courses: An Introduction to Physics-based Animation
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses, Publication: Proceeding SIGGRAPH '19 ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Courses Los Angeles, California — July 28 - 28, 2019
“Birth of Planet Earth” fulldome excerpt: photosynthesis in a chromatophore
ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival, Digital Library submission. Scientific visualization of the energyharvesting process of an earlyphotosynthetic organelle called achromatophore.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 38 Issue 4, July 2019