2021 Distinguished Educator Award: Barbara Mones

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to recognize Barbara Mones with the 2021 Distinguished Educator Award. Barbara is currently at the University of Washington where she has been part of their Animation...

2021 Practitioner Award: Brent Burley

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to recognize Brent Burley with the 2021 Practitioner Award.  The Practitioner Award is given annually to practitioners who have had an impact on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Since the early...

2021 Outstanding Service Award: Marc J. Barr

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation For his long-term service to ACM SIGGRAPH, both to the organization and to the SIGGRAPH Conference, ACM SIGGRAPH recognizes Marc J. Barr with the 2021 Outstanding Service Award. Marc started his service career as the manager of the ACM...

2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award: Minchen Li

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to present Minchen Li, PhD, with the 2021 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Minchen’s dissertation presents a breakthrough in the notoriously challenging and long-standing problem of robust frictional...

2021 Significant New Researcher Award: Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to present the 2021 Significant New Researcher Award to Jonathan Ragan-Kelley for his outstanding contributions to systems and compilers in rendering and computational photography.  Jonathan is best...

2021 Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Doug L. James

Photo credit: Karen James Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is delighted to present the 2021 Achievement Award to Doug L. James for his pioneering work in the simulation of deformable models and in sound rendering. Doug’s early work focused on fast animation...

2021 Steven Anson Coons Award: Markus Gross

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH Citation ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to present Markus Gross with the 2021 Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.  He is being recognized for his research contributions in geometry processing,...

Chair’s Corner – On Ethics

Howdy, This is a difficult essay to write. I know people will disagree with me. But, it is an important and timely topic. Issues falling under the “ethics” umbrella seem to be riling computer science more than at any time I can remember. Many of these end up in my...