SIGGRAPH and the SIGGRAPH Conference:The Early Days Dr. Robin Williams IBM Corporation Dr. Robin Williams of IBM was the fourth SIGGRAPH Chair, serving in 1976 and 1977. As he discusses in the following column, his administration drove SIGGRAPH's modem era and set the direction that resulted in the society's vigorous growth. It's appropriate that his fascinating remarks become part of our 25th conference celebration record. Dr. Williams is chairing a panel on SIGGRAPH's past (scheduled to include other former SIGGRAPH Chairs: Dr. Jim George, Sam Matsa, Jon Meads and Dr. Steve Levine) at the CG Pioneers meeting at SIGGRAPH 98, on July 22, 1998. - - Carl Machover SIGGRAPH is now a large, professional society with the world's most impressive computer graphics conference. It wasn't always this way. SIGGRAPH began as a small special interest group (one of the few in ACM) with no official conference. It grew dramatically into what it is now as a result of deliberate choices made in its early days. This, briefly, is the s t o r y of how it happened. Professor Andries van Dam (Andy), Brown University, and Sam Matsa, IBM, were the founders of SIGGRAPH in the mid-'60s. However
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SIGGRAPH and the SIGGRAPH conference: the early days
Williams, Robin
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, Volume 32 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1998
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