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ACM SIGGRAPH, the Glossary

ACM SIGGRAPH is the international Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques based in New York.^[1]

79 relations: ACM Transactions on Graphics, Alexei A. Efros, Alvy Ray Smith, Andrew Witkin, Andries van Dam, Association for Computing Machinery, Charles Csuri, Computer graphics, Computer Graphics (newsletter), David C. Evans, David Kirk (scientist), David Salesin, Digital art, Donald P. Greenberg, Donna Cox, Education, Edwin Catmull, Entertainment, Ernest Edmonds, Felix Heide, Greg Turk, Greg Ward, Harold Cohen (artist), Henry Fuchs, Holly Rushmeier, Ivan Sutherland, J. Turner Whitted, James D. Foley, James H. Clark, Jean-Pierre Hébert, Jeffrey Shaw, Jessica Hodgins, Jim Blinn, Jim Kajiya, John Warnock, Jos Stam, José Luis Encarnação, Kavita Bala, Ken Perlin, Kurt Akeley, Lance Williams (graphics researcher), Lillian Schwartz, Loren Carpenter, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Maneesh Agrawala, Manfred Mohr, Marc Levoy, Marie-Paule Cani, Markus Gross, Michael F. Cohen, ... Expand index (29 more) »
1969 establishments in New York (state)
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups
Computer graphics organizations
Computer-related introductions in 1969

ACM Transactions on Graphics

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of computer graphics.

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Alexei A. Efros

Alexei "Alyosha" A. Efros is a Russian-American computer scientist and professor at University of California, Berkeley.

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Alvy Ray Smith III (born September 8, 1943) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Lucasfilm's Computer Division and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film.

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Andrew Witkin

Andrew Paul Witkin (July 22, 1952 – September 12, 2010) was an American computer scientist who made major contributions in computer vision and computer graphics.

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Andries van Dam

Andries "Andy" van Dam (born December 8, 1938) is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.

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Charles Csuri

Charles Csuri (July 4, 1922 – February 27, 2022), better known as Chuck Csuri, was an American artist and computer art creator, described by the Smithsonian magazine as the "father of digital art and computer animation.".

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Computer graphics

Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers.

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Computer Graphics was a publication of ACM SIGGRAPH. ACM SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics (newsletter) are computer graphics organizations.

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David C. Evans

David Cannon Evans (February 24, 1924 – October 3, 1998) was the founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah and co-founder (with Ivan Sutherland) of Evans & Sutherland, a pioneering firm in computer graphics hardware.

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David Kirk (scientist)

David Blair Kirk (born 1960) is a computer scientist and former chief scientist and vice president of architecture at NVIDIA.

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David Salesin

David Salesin is an American computer scientist.

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Digital art

Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.

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Donald P. Greenberg

Donald Peter Greenberg (born 1934) is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Graphics at Cornell University.

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Donna Cox

Donna J. Cox is an American artist and scientist, Michael Aiken Endowed Chair; Professor of Art + Design; Director, Advanced Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); Director, Visualization and Experimental Technologies at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); and Director, edream (Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute).

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Edwin Catmull

Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.

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Ernest Edmonds

Ernest Edmonds (born 1942, London, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present.

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Felix Heide

Felix Heide is a German computer scientist working primarily in the fields of computational imaging, computer vision, computer graphics and deep learning.

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Greg Turk

Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

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Greg Ward

Gregory Mario Ward Jr. (born July 12, 1995) is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent.

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Harold Cohen (artist)

Harold Cohen (1 May 1928 – 27 April 2016) was a British-born artist who was noted as the creator of AARON, a computer program designed to produce paintings and drawings autonomously, which set it apart from previous programs.

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Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).

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Holly Rushmeier

Holly Rushmeier is an American computer scientist and is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University.

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Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Edward Sutherland (born May 16, 1938) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics.

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J. Turner Whitted

John Turner Whitted is an electrical engineer and computer scientist who introduced recursive ray tracing to the computer graphics community with his 1979 paper "An improved illumination model for shaded display".

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James D. Foley

James David Foley (born July 20, 1942) is an American computer scientist and computer graphics researcher.

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James H. Clark

James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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Jean-Pierre Hébert

Jean-Pierre Hébert (1939 – March 28, 2021) was an American artist of French origin.

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Jeffrey Shaw

Jeffrey Shaw (born 1944 in Melbourne) is a visual artist known for being a leading figure in new media art.

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Jessica Hodgins

Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science.

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Jim Blinn

James F. Blinn (born 1949) is an American computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project, his work on the 1980 Carl Sagan documentary series Cosmos, and the research of the Blinn–Phong shading model.

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Jim Kajiya

James Kajiya is a pioneer in the field of computer graphics.

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John Warnock

John Edward Warnock (October 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023) was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982.

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Jos Stam

Jos Stam (born 28 December 1965 in The Hague, Netherlands) is a researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on the simulation of natural physical phenomena for 3D-computer animation.

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José Luis Encarnação

José Luis Moreira da Encarnação is a Portuguese computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany and a senior technology and innovation advisor to governments, multinational companies, research institutions and organizations, and foundations.

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Kavita Bala

Kavita Bala (born 1971; in Bombay, India) is an American computer scientist, academic and entrepreneur.

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Ken Perlin

Kenneth H. Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, founding director of the Media Research Lab at NYU, director of the Future Reality Lab at NYU, and the Director of the Games for Learning Institute.

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Kurt Akeley

Kurt Akeley (born June 8, 1958) is an American computer graphics engineer.

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Lance Williams (graphics researcher)

Lance J. Williams (September 25, 1949 – August 20, 2017) was a prominent graphics researcher who made major contributions to texture map prefiltering, shadow rendering algorithms, facial animation, and antialiasing techniques.

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Lillian Schwartz

Lillian F. Schwartz (born 1927) is an American artist considered a pioneer of computer-mediated art and one of the first artists notable for basing almost her entire oeuvre on computational media.

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Loren Carpenter

Loren C. Carpenter (born February 7, 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer.

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Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson (née Lynn Lester Hershman; born June 17, 1941) is an American multimedia artist and filmmaker.

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Maneesh Agrawala

Maneesh Agrawala (born 1972) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University.

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Manfred Mohr

Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a German artist considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art.

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Marc Levoy

Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, a vice president and Fellow at Adobe Inc., and (until 2020) a Distinguished Engineer at Google.

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Marie-Paule Cani

Marie-Paule Cani (born 1965) is a French computer scientist conducting advanced research in the fields of shape modeling and computer animation.

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Markus Gross

Markus Gross (born June 14, 1963, Saarland, Germany) is a Professor of Computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH), head of its Computer Graphics Laboratory, and the director of Disney Research, Zurich.

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Michael F. Cohen

Michael F. Cohen is an American computer scientist and researcher in computer graphics.

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Michael Kass

Michael Kass is an American computer scientist best known for his work in computer graphics and computer vision.

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Monika Fleischmann

Monika Fleischmann (born 1950 in Karlsruhe, Germany) is a German research artist, digital media scientist, and curator of new media art working in art, science, and technology.

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Nelson Max

Nelson Max is a professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis.

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Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Olga Sorkine-Hornung (born 1981) is a professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing.

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Pat Hanrahan

Patrick M. Hanrahan (born 1955) is an American computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.

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Paul Brown (artist)

Paul Brown (born 23 October 1947) is an artist with an interest in the combination of art and technology, who has been based in England and Australia.

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Paul Debevec

Paul Ernest Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies.

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Periodical literature

A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.

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Peter Schröder

Peter Schröder is an American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at California Institute of Technology.

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Pierre Bézier

Pierre Étienne Bézier (1 September 1910 – 25 November 1999) was a French engineer and one of the founders of the fields of solid, geometric and physical modelling as well as in the field of representing curves, especially in computer-aided design and manufacturing systems.

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Przemysław Prusinkiewicz

Przemysław (Przemek) Prusinkiewicz is a Polish computer scientist who advanced the idea that Fibonacci numbers in nature can be in part understood as the expression of certain algebraic constraints on free groups, specifically as certain Lindenmayer grammars.

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Ramesh Raskar

Ramesh Raskar is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor and head of the MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture research group.

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Research

Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".

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Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, product, service, or company or a critical take on current affairs in literature, politics or culture.

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Richard Shoup (programmer)

Richard Shoup (July 30, 1943 – July 18, 2015) was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, mainly known from his pioneering work on computer graphics and animation.

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Robert L. Cook

Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software.

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Roman Verostko

Roman Verostko (September 12, 1929 – June 1, 2024) was an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.

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Ronald Fedkiw

Ronald Paul "Ron" Fedkiw (born February 27, 1968) is a full professor in the Stanford University department of computer science and a leading researcher in the field of computer graphics, focusing on topics relating to physically based simulation of natural phenomena and machine learning.

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SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques) is an annual conference centered around computer graphics organized by ACM, starting in 1974.

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Special interest group

A special interest group (SIG) is a community within a larger organization with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning or technology where members cooperate to effect or to produce solutions within their particular field, and may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.

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Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940) Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Budapest and Woody Vasulka (born Bohuslav Vašulka on 20 January 1937 – 20 December 2019) are early pioneers of video art, and have been producing work since the early 1960s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_SIGGRAPH

Also known as MetroCAF, Steven A. Coons Award.

, Michael Kass, Monika Fleischmann, Nelson Max, Olga Sorkine-Hornung, Pat Hanrahan, Paul Brown (artist), Paul Debevec, Periodical literature, Peter Schröder, Pierre Bézier, Przemysław Prusinkiewicz, Ramesh Raskar, Research, Review, Richard Shoup (programmer), Robert L. Cook, Roman Verostko, Ronald Fedkiw, SIGGRAPH, Special interest group, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Steven Anson Coons, Tamiko Thiel, Thomas Sederberg, Tomoyuki Nishita, Vera Molnár, Wolfgang Heidrich, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Zoran Popović.

ACM SIGGRAPH, the Glossary

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See also

1969 establishments in New York (state)

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups

Computer graphics organizations

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