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ACM SIGGRAPH Announces 2017 Election Results

ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce the results of their annual elections. This year members voted on candidates for the positions of President, Vice President and Director-at-Large. Voting ran from June15th though August 15th, with the new EC members taking office in...

Crafting Valerian's Interdimensional Journey

By Ian Failes. Republished with permission from Spark CG Society. Perhaps the most talked about sequence in Luc Besson’s Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets is the interdimensional journey undertaken by the title character through a merchant world....

Don't Forget to Vote!

On June 15, members of ACM SIGGRAPH who were in good standing as of May 31, 2017 were sent voting information in an email message or letter from Election Services Corporation (ESC). If ACM does not have an email address on file, members will receive voting information...

How Do You Animate an Emoji?

By Ian Failes. Republished with permission from Spark CG Society. We’ve all probably sent emojis from our smart phones, in our emails, and in messaging apps. Now Sony Animation has taken us into the animated film world of the ubiquitous ideograms with Tony...

Where to Find SIGGRAPH 2017 Papers and Other Content

SIGGRAPH is the world’s largest, most influential annual conference and exhibition in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Five days of research results, demos, educational sessions, art, screenings, and hands-on interactivity, and three days of...

Women in Computing: ACM SIGGRAPH Meets ACM-W

By Aruquia Peixoto. Edited by Jessica Sommerville and Diana Arellano. In mid-June, I traveled to NYC for the first time. The trip, however, was not for a vacation. Instead, I was fortunate enough to attend the Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women...

2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Award Winners Announced

The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing. This year, ACM SIGGRAPH will recognize six individuals whose impressive...

SIGGRAPH 2017 Party Calendar

In search of a list of after-hours events at SIGGRAPH 2017? Maybe we can help. SIGGRAPH.org has compiled a calendar of public parties and events at SIGGRAPH 2017 (also embedded below), which will be updated as information becomes available. To import the party...

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 Announces Keynote Speaker Michael Cohen

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 has announced that Michael Cohen, Director of the Computational Photography Group at Facebook, will be a keynote speaker at the conference this November in Bangkok, Thailand. In addition to his position at Facebook, Michael is an affiliate professor...