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The ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers are members of ACM SIGGRAPH who have been involved with computer graphics and interactive techniques for twenty years or more. The Pioneers serve as an advisory board to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (EC) and are involved in many of the volunteering aspects of the organization and conferences. Each year at SIGGRAPH, the Pioneers get together for an exclusive, Pioneers-only reception with a distinguished speaker from the computer graphics community. It’s a chance for old friends to reconnect and new friends to be discovered. 

The Chair is responsible for the following:

• Organizing and meeting with the Pioneers Steering Committee (PSC)
• Organizing and monitoring the different ACM SIGGRAPH related activities of the Pioneers
• Organizing the annual Pioneers reception at the SIGGRAPH Conference including, in consultation with the PSC, recruiting the speaker 
• Acting as a liaison between the Pioneers and the EC to advise the EC and to ensure that the Pioneers’ activities are aligned with the strategic priorities of the EC
• Work with the History Committee on such activities as providing speakers, reviewers, and authors for articles, books, etc. about computer graphics history and lessons learned
• Initiate and coordinate projects of interest to ACM SIGGRAPH and the Pioneers

The Chair must submit a budget request to the Executive Committee every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend an average of 5 or more hours/week on the chair activities. 

For those interested in applying for this position, please contact the ACM SIGGRAPH Project Manager (project-manager@acmsiggraph.org). Only applicants who are ACM SIGGRAPH Pioneers in good standing as of the application deadline will be considered. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in this volunteer role). The Pioneers Steering Committee will review all the candidates, conduct interviews if necessary, and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee in order to identify the next Chair.

The deadline for applying is July 15, 2021 but applications will be accepted until the position is filled and the term will begin on September 1, 2021. The term is three years, renewable once.

I’m John Hughes (Professor of Computer Science, Brown University), and as ACM SIGGRAPH’s Awards Chair, I help coordinate all of ACM SIGGRAPH’s various awards-related activities. I’m seeking new chairs for two Awards Committees: The SIGGRAPH Academy committee, replacing Holly Rushmeier, and the Art Award Committee, replacing Sue Gollifer.

For each position, the applicant should have strong organizational and communication skills, distinguished standing in the appropriate community, and be comfortable with presenting their award(s) at SIGGRAPH.

Please apply by email to jfh@cs.brown.edu by June 20, 2021, with contact information and a brief description of why you think you’d be appropriate for the position. 

The Practitioner Career Development Chair will organize a committee that plans, develops, and facilitates activities that support the career development of practitioners working in industry and academia. The focus will be on how these activities relate to areas of professional interest to the SIGGRAPH community (SIGGRAPH areas). The Committee will create and manage a mentoring program and provide guidance on promotions, hiring, project management and leadership, business development and entrepreneurship, moving into management and career changes, again focusing on how these relate to SIGGRAPH areas. The Committee will facilitate networking, i.e.,  connecting practitioners doing related work.

The SIGGRAPH Executive Committee has set as one of its primary goals the support of our members throughout their careers through mentoring, lifelong learning, and professional development both in the research and practitioner areas. Since these tasks are interconnected, the different committees should work together and with the conferences to achieve their goals. For example, the Practitioner Career Development Committee should work with the Lifelong Learning Committee to ensure that materials appropriate for practitioners are developed.

The Chair must put in a budget request to the EC every January and submit an annual report in June. The Chair can expect to spend 5-10 hours/week on the chair activities. 

Those interested in applying for this position please contact Rebecca Strzelec. Provide a CV and vision statement (why you’re interested in being chair and what you hope to accomplish in that role). The Nominations Committee will review all the candidates and make recommendations to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. All applications received by March 1 will receive full consideration.

We hope to fill the position by June 1 to allow for an early ramp-up. The position will begin September 1 and run for a three-year term with the possibility of renewal for an additional three years.