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A Conversation with SIGGRAPH 2016 Conference Chair Mona Kasra
We're less than one week from the SIGGRAPH 2016 conference. Get ready for all the inspiration ahead and read on to find out some things you may not know about this year's gathering. SIGGRAPH 2016 (S2016): The job of conference chair for SIGGRAPH is certainly a big...
A Festival for the World: Innovative Animation at SIGGRAPH 2016
Cosmos Laundromat © 2016 Blender Foundation When it comes to SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival, there's always more than meets the eye. The leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators, the...
#SIGGRAPHchat – Women in Computer Graphics
Join SIGGRAPH for our next Twitter chat on Wednesday, 22 June, at 2 pm PT. Once again, we'll use the #SIGGRAPHchat hashtag. Our topic this month will be Women in CG. Women are still a minority in many areas of computer graphics, games, and interactive technologies....
SIGGRAPH Student Volunteers: Oh, The Places You’ll Go (part 3)
In this three-part series, SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer alum and guest blogger Jessica Sommerville looks at how the SIGGRAPH SV program has shaped the professional lives of some of its alumni. If you missed the first installment, you can read it here and you can read...
SIGGRAPH Student Volunteers: Oh, The Places You’ll Go! (part 2)
In this three-part series, SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer alum and guest blogger Jessica Sommerville looks at how the SIGGRAPH SV program has shaped the professional lives of some of its alumni. If you missed the first installment, you can read it here. MARISA GINGER...
SIGGRAPH Student Volunteers: Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
In this three-part series, SIGGRAPH Student Volunteer (SV) alum and guest blogger Jessica Sommerville looks at how the SIGGRAPH SV program has shaped the professional lives of some of its alumni. JESSICA SOMMERVILLE I truly believe that SIGGRAPH and more specifically...
Meet Juan Miguel de Joya
photo: Juan Miguel de Joya (r) with Paulo Machado (l) and a student volunteer at SIGGRAPH 2015. This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Juan Miguel de Joya is a member of the SIGGRAPH 2016 Games Committee. He was also the Poster's...
7 Things You Did Not Know About IRC (Number 2 Is Our Favorite)
If you’ve ever been at a SIGGRAPH conference and needed information in a language other than English, you’ve interacted with the International Resources Committee (IRC). If you’re not from North America, you’ve talked to us. If you’ve wandered into the SIGGRAPH...
VR: Where Everything Is New, Or Old, Or Both!
ACM guest blogger and Research Vice President at Gartner and self-proclaimed SIGGRAPH junkie Brian Blau shares his POV on the evolution of Virtual Reality and its intersection with SIGGRAPH conferences over the years. I’ll admit it straight away, I’m a SIGGRAPH junkie...
Meet Mashhuda Glencross
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Mashhuda Glencross is the SIGGRAPH 2016 General Submissions Chair. Her work has spanned a diverse range of areas including computational photography, 3D reconstruction/imaging, visual...
Everything You Think You Know About Networking is Wrong
The concept of networking has always struck me as absurd. To me, networking isn’t a skill to be perfected, or a critical proficiency to be checked off a list. It’s something we already do. As humans, we learn, grow, and carve out our place in the world by building...