SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH 2007 official logo

Hydraulophone, presented at SIGGRAPH 2007

SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. Past SIGGRAPH conferences have been held in Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Diego and elsewhere across the United States.

Overview

Sand printer, presented at SIGGRAPH 2004

Some highlights of the conference are its Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations, where recently created CG films are played. There is a large exhibition floor, where several hundred companies set up elaborate booths and compete for attention and recruits. Most of the companies are in the engineering, graphics, motion picture, or video game industries. There are also many booths for schools which specialize in computer graphics or interactivity.

Dozens of research papers are presented each year, and SIGGRAPH is widely considered the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. The recent paper acceptance rate for SIGGRAPH has been less than 20%. ^[1] The papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH are currently printed in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal. Prior to 2002, SIGGRAPH papers were printed in the SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings series of publications.

In addition to the papers, there are numerous panels of industry experts set up to discuss a wide variety of topics, from computer graphics to machine interactivity to education. SIGGRAPH also offers many full- and half-day courses in state-of-the-art computer graphics topics, as well as shorter "sketch" presentations where artists and researchers discuss their latest work.

In 1984, Pixar's first animated short, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premiered at SIGGRAPH. Pixar has debuted numerous shorts at the conference since.

SIGGRAPH Asia

As of 2008, SIGGRAPH conferences have been held in Asia (known as SIGGRAPH Asia), in addition to the conferences in the United States. The first SIGGRAPH Asia conference was held in Singapore from the tenth to the thirteenth of December 2008 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Specific SIGGRAPH Conferences

See also

• Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• ACM Transactions on Graphics
• Computer Graphics, a publication of ACM SIGGRAPH
• The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

References

External links

• ACM SIGGRAPH website
• Tim Rowley's Website which offer links to Siggraph Papers and Projects etc.
• SIGGRAPH 2009 Important Dates (Submission Deadlines)
• SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 website
• SIGGRAPH 2007 Live reporting from San Diego - tips, shuttle info, daily reporting
• Oral history interview with Carl Machover, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Machover is a computer graphics pioneer and president of Machover Associates, a computer graphics consultancy founded in 1976. Creation of stand-alone computer-aided design (CAD) platform the IDIIOM (IDI Input-Output Machine), the adoption of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing), and ACM's SIGGRAPH CORE graphics standard in the 1970s.