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Dr. Carolina Cruz Neira will be part of the Generations panel at the SIGGRAPH 2018 Business Symposium, 11-12 August in Vancouver, British Columbia. A virtual reality (VR) pioneer and leading expert in Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) technology, Dr. Cruz...
Figure: Courtesy of Authors/Google Video stills: Courtesy of Team Coco/CONAN People have a natural knack for focusing on what a single person is saying, even when there are competing conversations in the background or other distracting sounds. For instance, people can...
In the burgeoning world of virtual reality (VR) technology, it remains a challenge to provide users with a realistic perception of infinite space and natural walking capabilities in the virtual environment. At SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver this summer, a team of computer...
In part two of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee's (IRC) "next generation" series, Rebecca Ko (founder, Rooftop Animation) sits down with 3D artist and Brazil native Natalia Freitas (independent animator based in Vancouver) to discuss Freitas’s...
This is an important election for the ACM SIGGRAPH membership, as it will contain not only a ballot of candidates for Treasurer and two Director At Large positions, but also a request for approval for major bylaw changes which will change the way leadership is...
Pictured: Caroline Beyne (left) and Myriam Beauvais (right). For part one of the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resource Committee's (IRC) "next generation" series, Rebecca Ko (founder, Rooftop Animation) sits down with Myriam Beauvais (graphics programmer and intern,...
The SIGGRAPH Doctoral Consortium is a new initiative that will take place at SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver, BC, 11 August 2018. We chatted with Consortium Chair Maneesh Agrawala of the Stanford University Brown institute for Media Innovation to find out more about the...
In partnership with Microsoft, the ACM Student Research Competition — presented annually at the North American SIGGRAPH conference — is a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees....
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Dr. James Foley is Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, which he joined in 1991 to found the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (now GVU) Center. 1. What was your first job? My...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Jules Kenville works in production management for animation and visual effects, currently at Cartoon Network. 1. What do you do, and how long have you been doing it? I work in...
By Melanie A. Farmer For his pioneering contributions in the creation of realistic graphics and advances in computer vision, Ravi Ramamoorthi has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ramamoorthi is part of a newly elected class of...
By Melanie A. Farmer Steven Seitz’s work in teleportation and virtual reality is giving people the ability to feel like they are somewhere they are not; essentially, transporting them to a physical experience with VR technology, novel camera technologies and Google’s...