Chair’s Corner
This is a regular column to keep ACM SIGGRAPH members and those who are interested in computer graphics and interactive techniques informed on news and updates from the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. The ACM SIGGRAPH Chair will be updating everyone on key initiatives and priorities set by the Committee as well as providing information on a range of matters about the organization he feels are worth sharing.
Fifty years is a long time.
We celebrated 50 years of SIGGRAPH in 2023. In its heyday, SIGGRAPH drew almost 50,000 attendees. In our 51st year, we were back in Colorado, where it all began. Attendance was closer to 9000. Given this context, it behooves us to ask some hard questions. Where are we...
Chair’s Corner – On the scale of SIGGRAPH’s activities
As I prepared for the first Executive Committee meeting of the 2024-25 year, my first meeting as Chair, I found myself confronted by the breadth and scale of our activities as a Special Interest Group.
ACM’s Transition to 100% Open Access Publishing: A Q&A with Jonathan Aldrich
Interviewed by Mona Kasra, ACM SIGGRAPH Chair In 2026, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will fully transition its publication process to 100% Open Access. Concurrently, the ACM Digital Library will shift from its current Pay-to-Read model to a...
Chair’s Corner – Chair’s Welcome Essay
Having come from a background of primarily low-level GPU software development, the “why” of the specific stream of requests being sent to the software I was writing never really occurred to me. For example, I could poke registers and issue commands to make a red...
Chair’s Corner – Chair’s Farewell Essay
Thank you ACM SIGGRAPH Community! It has been quite a ride for the ACM SIGGRAPH Community over the last year. We are back! Over the last year there has been a lot of uncertainty as we navigated back to in-person events. Throughout the year, we held many gatherings...
Chair’s Corner – Practitioners: We Need You!
By Elizabeth Baron I have had the distinct privilege in my career of being able to really think out of the box and look toward the future. I could innovate in ways that provide efficiencies by allowing intuitive, agile thought to get at solutions to complex,...
Chair’s Corner: Farewell Essay
As with most goodbyes, this moment is bittersweet. I am very excited to pass the chores of being chair onto my successor and claw some time back for my own research and other endeavors. At the same time, I have been honored to serve as chair of SIGGRAPH and generally...
Chair’s Corner: The SIGGRAPH Budget
One of the most frequent criticisms I hear about SIGGRAPH is that the organization is opaque or, equivalently, I hear about a lack of transparency. To the extent that this critique is fair, it is not due to a desire for secrecy (there are only a handful of things that...
Chair’s Corner: Results of the Conference Papers Program Survey
Howdy. I wrote last month about a proposal for a new Conference Papers program. Over the last month we conducted a survey of the technical papers community (if you want to participate the survey is here: https://forms.gle/ZKe2jen24yEg57C87). I have been tracking...
Chair’s Corner: Thoughts on a Proposal for a New Conference Papers Program
Howdy,As far back as I can remember, the SIGGRAPH technical papers community has complained about the technical papers program. As I have gotten older I’ve begun to realize that *every* technical papers community complains about their program, whether it is the review...
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President’s Corner- What did you tell us via the virtual conference survey?
A Message from ACM SIGGRAPH President Jessica Hodgins About a month ago we sent out a survey asking for your thoughts about what the virtual SIGGRAPH 2020 should look like. We sent the survey to the SIGGRAPH 2020 accepted contributors, ACM...
President’s Corner – We stand with you.
A Message from ACM SIGGRAPH President Jessica Hodgins Dear ACM SIGGRAPH community, We are all struggling to understand and respond to the underlying issues surrounding yet another murder of an unarmed black man in the United States. I would like to offer support to...
President’s Corner- What Does it Take to Put on a Virtual Conference?
A Message from ACM SIGGRAPH President Jessica Hodgins Dear ACM SIGGRAPH community, As the organizers who scrambled to put on the first conferences that went virtual this spring have emphatically said, a virtual conference is just as big an undertaking as an...
President’s Corner- Paper Deadline Survey
A Message from ACM SIGGRAPH President Jessica Hodgins Dear ACM SIGGRAPH community, Last fall, we asked recent authors and reviewers from the Technical Papers Program to participate in a survey about the timing of the Technical Papers deadline for the summer...
COVID19 Communication
Dear ACM SIGGRAPH community, Like many industries, our field of computer graphics and interactive techniques is experiencing significant challenges amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. It has forced all of us to make abrupt changes to our daily routines: learning to...
The ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award
SIGGRAPH Members, The Executive Committee has established a new award to honor educators in computer graphics and interactive techniques who are making a significant impact on any educational level, from grade school through higher ed. The ACM SIGGRAPH...
SIGGRAPH Frontiers
SIGGRAPH Members, The field of computer graphics and interactive techniques is diverse and evolving. The Executive Committee is supporting this evolution by setting up programs to bring emerging and related areas into the fold. We want ACM SIGGRAPH to be the place...
Volunteership at ACM SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH Members, Many of you already know the value we place on volunteership at ACM SIGGRAPH. Our organization is governed and driven by our a remarkable/energetic group of volunteers. Without member volunteers we would not—could not—have the dynamic, diverse and...
The ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award
SIGGRAPH Members, The Executive Committee has established a new award to honor educators in computer graphics and interactive techniques who are making a significant impact on any educational level, from grade school through higher ed. The ACM SIGGRAPH...
Strategy
SIGGRAPH Members, Now that another inspiring and successful SIGGRAPH conference is behind us, I would like to tell you about some ways your Executive Committee (EC) is supporting our diverse and growing community. When the EC met at the end of Jeff Jortner’s...
ACM SIGGRAPH CARES
SIGGRAPH Members, The Executive Committee (EC) is committed to upholding ACM’s strict policy and procedures against harassment for all members of the ACM SIGGRAPH community. The open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression are central to the aims...
Proposed Bylaw Changes
SIGGRAPH Members, The Executive Committee (EC) will be proposing a few notable changes to the SIGGRAPH Bylaws. These proposed changes have been approved by ACM and will be presented to the SIGGRAPH members for a vote in the summer election. There will be in-depth...
ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
ACM SIGGRAPH Members, The Executive Committee has recently established the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy to recognize individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of computer graphics and interactive techniques. In its inaugural year, the SIGGRAPH Academy...
ACM SIGGRAPH Practitioner Award
SIGGRAPH members, I’m starting a regular column as a way to keep everyone informed of news and updates from the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. I’ll be updating you on key initiatives and priorities set by the Committee as well as providing information on a range of...