Trailer Spotlight: SIGGRAPH 2015 Technical Papers
Image Credit: Codimensional Non-Newtonian Fluids © 2015 Bo Zhu, Minjae Lee, Ed Quigley, and Ronald Fedkiw, Stanford University You never know what kinds of things you might see at SIGGRAPH 2015! The SIGGRAPH Technical Papers program is the premier international forum...
Spend a Week at SIGGRAPH Student Program
One of the core components of ACM SIGGRAPH is its first-class educational support. The community accomplishes this through a variety of avenues. Today we are exploring the Spend a Week at SIGGRAPH Student Program, which focuses on underrepresented groups who...
SIGGRAPHITTI Issue 2: 2015 Conference Sneak Peeks
SIGGRAPHITTI is the newsletter for the SIGGRAPH Conference and includes in-depth news, information, sneak peeks and previews of what you'll find at SIGGRAPH 2015, a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience in the latest computer graphics and interactive...
Immerse Yourself in the VR Village
Debuting in 2015, The VR Village is a virtual screening room for cutting-edge Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and immersive media programming. Participants will experience content in a variety of ways, including stand-up/sit-down VR and tabletop AR,...
7 Reasons to Attend SIGGRAPH 2015
Why attend SIGGRAPH 2015? As always, the annual SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition gathers the world's leading experts in the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques. Of course, 2015's event also offers attendees incredible networking opportunities. And...
Behind the SIGGRAPH 2015 Juries
pictured above: the 2015 Unified Jury group Trailers for SIGGRAPH 2015 will be out very soon so we sat down with Technical Papers Chair Doug James to go behind the jury process for this year's program content. Here's what he had to say. Why does SIGGRAPH use a jury...
Enter the #6SecSIGGRAPH Vine Contest
SIGGRAPH 2015 invites you to share your creativity for a chance to win complimentary Full Conference registration! The #6SecSIGGRAPH contest is easy, fun, and a great way to share your SIGGRAPH story. The Challenge: Create a Vine film highlighting what SIGGRAPH means,...
Voting, Volunteerism, and Value
It is that time of year again when ACM SIGGRAPH members are asked to vote for our elected Executive Committee (EC) members. In mid-April, members were sent a unique 10-digit code via email. You can still use this PIN to CAST A VOTE until June 1st. It is also the time...
Celebrating Chapter Pride
Local and regional chapters help the ACM SIGGRAPH community promote excellence in computer graphics and interactive techniques.These professional and student chapters throughout the world organize meetings, site visits, conferences, screenings, art shows, and special...
What to Expect at SIGGRAPH 2015
SIGGRAPH 2015 is fast approaching and we want you to be ready, so we sat down with Conference Chair Marc J. Barr to learn what has inspired the planning process for what promises to be a true "Xroads" for technological thinkers. Tell us about the “aha” moment when you...
5 Tips for Innovators from Not Impossible’s Elliot Kotek
It's been close to a year since SIGGRAPH 2014 attendees heard an inspirational keynote address from Not Impossible Labs Co-founder Elliot Kotek. Kotek and his team are proof that a lot can happen in the span of one year, including the completion of inspiring projects...
Learning to Color with the Apple Macintosh and Related Devices
When the Macintosh and Lisa Computers were introduced by Apple Inc. in the early and mid 1980s, it was my good fortune to be a programmer analyst and long range planner with the Center for Information Technology at Stanford University. My day job involved exploring...