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Technology Helped Him Speak for the First Time in 15 Years

By Kristy Barkan Don Moir was diagnosed with ALS in 1995. As a farmer, a husband, and a father of three, the idea of losing the ability to move around freely was a tremendous blow. Over the next four years, Don slowly lost the capacity to work his farm, move around...

Yes, This Gorgeous CG Short Was Made by Students

Interview by Cody Welsh These days, student films are not in short supply. An increasingly large number of schools offer programs in computer animation, and sites like Vimeo and YouTube are teeming with student films — some of which rival those of major...

Virtual Reality That Reacts to Your Thoughts

By Kristy Barkan As it turns out, The Force isn't just a figment of George Lucas' imagination. Students in the UC Berkeley chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH have come up with a fascinating virtual reality system that reads users' brain waves and changes the world...

London ACM SIGGRAPH Hosts a Flurry of CG Events

Since its refounding last summer, the London Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH has hit the ground running, hosting at least one computer graphics event every month. The events have been well attended, and open to anyone and everyone in the London computer graphics community....

Call for Submissions to Spring Conference on CG (SCCG '15)

The Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG) is one of the oldest annual meetings of the computer graphics community in Central Europe, and covers a wide variety of topics on computer graphics, image processing and imaging applications. This year, SCCG will be...

CES 2015: Through the Eyes of a SIGGRAPH Veteran

By Jacquelyn Ford Morie, ACM SIGGRAPH Director-at-Large My first CES (Consumer Electronics Show) just happened in January 2015 in Las Vegas, NV. How could I have waited so long to actually attend one of these mythical events? I thought it would be much like the heady...

Big Hero 6 Character Design & Development Panel in NYC

Source: NYC ACM SIGGRAPH NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and NYIT’s Fine Arts Department are proud to announce . . . On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, at 7:00PM, in NYIT’s Auditorium On Broadway, Walt Disney Animation Studios will present “Big Hero 6: The Art of...

Computer Graphics International Deadline Approaching

The deadline for submissions to Computer Graphics International (CGI) '15 is swiftly approaching. Full paper submissions to the conference — which takes place from June 24 to 26 in Strasbourg, France — are due by February 15, 2015. Short papers and...

From Paper to VR: 360-degree Animation of 2D Illustrations

By Cody Welsh In the modern day, there are a number of software options for artists who wish to animate their illustrations without a lot of the tedious work that might otherwise be involved in the process. One company that produces this kind of software is Live2D,...

ACM Names Fellows for Achievements in Computing

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced the names of 47 members who will be recognized as ACM Fellows for their exceptional contributions to computing. Fellowship is ACM's most prestigious member grade, and is held by only 1% of ACM members....