An Interview with FounderBob Richmond The Origin of Boston's Professional Chapter The Founder of a Long Running SIGGRAPH Chapter Tells All by Susan Stearman ~ IGGRAPH/New England was the original Professional Chapter for SIGGRAPH. Bob Richmond, then of Raytheon, founded the group and has been instrumental in its survival for over a decade. In this interview Bob tells me about the beginnings of SiGGRAPH/NE. Susan: Bob, why did you start SIGGRAPH/NE? Bob: The local Boston chapter of ACM had a S I G R E A L Professional Chapter. Most of the members of that group were or later got involved with graphics. But the SIGREAL group sort of died out. At the second SIGGRAPH conference, I ran into a lot of these folks who were then involved in the or"...One thing ganizing of SIGI did was GRAPH itself. I "hluckmuil" got the idea to start the vendors a local chapter. At SIGGRAPH in to " b u y " a . Chicago, 1 was issue of the given permission newsletter. to set up the profesYhls w a s e u s y sional chapter. We to d o w i t h . already had been m
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