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The ACM SIGGRAPH Nominating Committee has proposed the following candidates for the 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH election and voting will begin on 14 June 2019 for all members in good standing:

DIRECTOR A:     

• Adam Finkelstein, Princeton, University
• Paul Kry, McGill University

DIRECTOR B:   

• Elizabeth Baron, Founder of Immersionary Enterprises (formerly Immersive Realities Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company)
• Mona Kasra, University of Virginia

DIRECTOR C:

• Adam Bargteil, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Joaquim Jorge, INESC-ID / University Lisboa

To be a member in good standing, a person needs to be an ACM SIGGRAPH Member as of 31 May 2019.  Membership to ACM SIGGRAPH can be obtained online and through the myACM portal.

This is the first voting cycle for the new bylaw changes voted in by the ACM SIGGRAPH Membership last year.  Those new bylaw changes are as follows:

• All elected positions will be director positions and ACM SIGGRAPH officers will no longer be elected to specific positions through member elections. Every year, after the new Executive Committee (EC) takes office, it will select new officers from within the EC to serve one-year terms. Those officer positions will be Chair, Chair-Elect, Treasurer, and Treasurer-Elect. The Chair-Elect will become the Chair and the Treasurer-Elect will become the Treasurer after the next election. Electing officers to Chair, Chair-Elect, etc., will go into effect after the current president, Jessica Hodgins, completes her term on August 31, 2020.

• The EC can now appoint up to three voting members to its rank. This change allows the EC to increase representation from core constituencies, as needed, and allows key volunteers to make decisions for the organization. Marc Barr, the current Conference Advisory Group Chair, was appointed to one of these slots and now has full participation on the EC to better reflect his role in the organization.

• Finally, the third major change, enables members to elect directors to specific positions. For example, if three director positions are open in a given election — as is the case this year — the voters are to be presented with at least two candidates for each position, i.e., position A, position B, and position C. This change helps the Nominating Committee to achieve increased diversity in skillset, area of expertise, and geography.

Morgan & Claypool is pleased to announce the latest title in their series on Visualization:

Diversity in Visualization
Ron Metoyer, University of Notre Dame
Kelly Gaither, University of Texas at Austin

Paperback ISBN: 9781681734934
eBook ISBN: 9781681734941
Hardcover ISBN: 9781681734958

March 2019, 127 pages
http://www.morganclaypoolpublishers.com/catalog_Orig/product_info.php?products_id=1377

Abstract:

At the 2016 IEEE VIS Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, a panel of experts from the Scientific Visualization (SciVis) community gathered to discuss why the SciVis component of the conference had been shrinking significantly for over a decade. As the panelists concluded and opened the session to questions from the audience, Annie Preston, a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Davis, asked whether the panelists thought diversity or, more specifically, the lack of diversity was a factor.

This comment ignited a lively discussion of diversity: not only its impact on Scientific Visualization, but also its role in the visualization community at large. The goal of this book is to expand and organize the conversation. In particular, this book seeks to frame the diversity and inclusion topic within the Visualization community, illuminate the issues, and serve as a starting point to address how to make this community more diverse and inclusive. This book acknowledges that diversity is a broad topic with many possible meanings. Expanded definitions of diversity that are relevant to the Visualization community and to computing at large are considered. The broader conversation of inclusion and diversity is framed within the broader sociological context in which it must be considered. Solutions to recruit and retain a diverse research community and strategies for supporting inclusion efforts are presented. Additionally, community members present short stories detailing their “non-inclusive” experiences in an effort to facilitate a community-wide conversation surrounding very difficult situations.

It is important to note that this is by no means intended to be a comprehensive, authoritative statement on the topic. Rather, this book is intended to open the conversation and begin to build a framework for diversity and inclusion in this specific research community. While intended for the Visualization community, ideally, this book will provide guidance for any computing community struggling with similar issues and looking for solutions.

• Table of Contents:
  • Editor’s Note
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Framing the Conversation
  • Diversity: A Sociological Perspective
  • Factors Hindering Diversity
  • Case Studies
  • Community On-Ramps
  • Retention
  • Building
  • Inclusive Communities
  • Marshaling the Many Facets of Diversity
  • Future of Diversity in Vis
  • Bibliography
  • Authors’ Biographies

Series: Synthesis Lectures on Visualization
Series Editors: David Ebert, Purdue University
Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland

2nd International Conference on Quantum Information Technologies Applied to Nature and Society ( QUITANS 2019 )  Pula, Croatia  June, 28 – 30, 2019

QUITANS 2019 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, workshops, doctoral consortium, demo session, research-work-in-progress, poster presentations, etc.

The contributions must be submitted following the instructions found on the submission of papers section. All accepted papers will be published in the respective conference proceedings (in printed book form, CD/DVD and magazine) by international and prestigious publishing houses in America and Europe

1. Post-conference publishing book. IGI Global Hershey, Pennsylvania – USA
2. An academic CD proceedings version –not commercial (distribution in the room), with ISBN ISBN 978.88.96.471.85.2 and DOI 10.978.8896471/852
3. International Scientific Journal in Europe with IEEE format guidelines
4. The works/papers are will be submitted for indexation by EI COMPENDEX, INSPEC, THOMSON REUTERS, AMERINDEX and DBLP.UNI-TRIE.DE

Very Important The authors can present more than one contribution with only one registration (maximum 3 works).

All contributions should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance, impact and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period.

Our main goal is to create a real space for the constructive debate and interchange of theoretical ideas, practical aspects, experiment results, conclusions, learned lessons and very specially the future lines of research. The great areas are quantum computing, new technologies, simulation, communication, communicability, information, R&D, education, nature, society, agriculture, robotization, biochemistry, HCI which will be presented next, and broken down in accordance to the division of the topics. Finally, the current listing (alphabetical order) doesn’t mean that other issues of general or interest are excluded currently, or in coming editions of the event. In other words, the authors are free to present other topics which may enrich the content of the conference.

All submitted works will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their research works/papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their contributions.

Important Dates and Information

Works Submissions Open. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international conference, visa requirements, should plan travel well in advance, etc. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process.

• Deadline May, 14th – 2359 local time in Hawaiian Islands.
• Authors Notification One/two weeks after the submission/s.
• Camera-ready, full papers June, 21th.

Special Links to Third International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, High Education, Augmented Reality and Technologies ( HCIHEART 2019 )  Pula – Croatia  June, 27 – 29, 2019

• Keynote Speakers and Relators with Human and Professional – super ‘High Quality’
• Certificate of participation and conference proceedings.
• Participation for the selection of the best paper and research awards.
• Cultural Events local excursions in Croatia (free for all authors and participants).

This conference is organized by AInCI International Association of Interactive Communication (Asociacion Internacional de la Comunicacion Interactiva)  www.ainci.com, and ALAIPO  Latin Association of Human-Computer Interaction (Asociacion Latina de Interaccion Persona Ordenador)  www.alaipo.com