Steve Cunningham EPUB: SIGGRAPH FAQ, March 4, 1994 7 Mar 1994 15:27:14 GMT CSU Stanislaus Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds SIGGRAPH FAQ Date: March 4, 1994 ------------------------------ Section: Contents This FAQ is maintained by ACM SIGGRAPH as a service to persons wanting to contact SIGGRAPH or to find out what services SIGGRAPH offers to the computer graphics and interactive techniques community. It contains the following sections: * What is ACM SIGGRAPH * What we do and who to contact * SIGGRAPH member benefits * Joining SIGGRAPH * How to order SIGGRAPH materials * Online SIGGRAPH services * Schedule of SIGGRAPH events * Conference details Any question not adequately covered here should be addressed to the person identified in this FAQ as a source of information in the desired area. ------------------------------ Section: What is ACM SIGGRAPH? ACM SIGGRAPH is the world's largest and most respected organization for creators, designers, and users of computer graphics and interactive techniques. This FAQ describes SIGGRAPH's publications, conferences, and other activities and gives information on SIGGRAPH membership and benefits. ------------------------------ Section: What we do and who to contact The SIGGRAPH Executive Committee currently consists of: Mary Whitton, Chair (whitton@siggraph.org) Sylvie Rueff, Vice-Chair (rueff@siggraph.org) Adele Newton, Director for Conferences (newton@siggraph.org) Alyce Kaprow, Director for Communications (kaprow@siggraph.org) Steve Van Frank, Treasurer (vanfrank@siggraph.org) Judith R. Brown, Past Chair (jbrown@siggraph.org) G. Scott Owen, Director for Education (owen@siggraph.org) Steve Cunningham, Director for Publications (cunningham@siggraph.org) Jeff Jortner, Director for Local Groups (jortner@siggraph.org) Maureen Jones, Director-At-Large (mjones@siggraph.org) Chris Herot, Director-At-Large (herot@siggraph.org) Conference: The annual SIGGRAPH conference is the world's largest annual event devoted to computer graphics and interactive techniques. Each year, the conference features a high-quality technical program of papers, panels, and courses, the annual art show, film and video show, and commercial excibitions, which are always organized to present both solid foundations and the latest advances in the field. In recent years, the conference has also featured new events such as emerging technologies exhibits, an educators' program, and multimedia events. The conference involves over 200 volunteers who contribute invaluable time and resources to ensure that the conference will serve the evolving interests and needs of the computer graphics community. Persons interested in volunteering are urged to contact the conference planning committee, cpc@siggraph.org, to express their interest. Publications: SIGGRAPH publishes the conference proceedings, visual proceedings, and CD-ROM version of the conference proceedings for our annual conference each summer. In addition, SIGGRAPH has a relationship with several other conferences and publishes their proceedings; in the past, this has included Interactive 3D Computer Graphics, Volume Visualization, Computational Geometry, User Interface Software and Technology, Solid Modeling Applications, and Parallel Rendering. SIGGRAPH publishes four newsletter issues of Computer Graphics each year, containing tutorial and expository articles in each that describe current activities and directions in computer graphics and interactive techniques. For information on submitting articles to the newsletter, contact Susan B. Mair at mair@siggraph.org. SIGGRAPH also publishes the SIGGRAPH Video Review, a video publication that includes computer animations from the annual conference as well as issues from other ACM conferences and special issues on varied topics, as well as slide sets from the annual conference and from our ongoing work to provide materials for computer graphics educators. We are also developing additional CD-ROM publications from the conference, including a disk of multimedia examples and a CD-ROM version of the full set of course notes from the annual conference. For more complete information on SIGGRAPH publications, send mail to info.publications@siggraph.org Education: SIGGRAPH has a strong program of support for computer graphics instructors and for the use of computer graphics in instruction. This program includes curriculum information, conference grants for educators, and participation in a range of conferences including the annual SIGGRAPH conference. For more information, send mail to info.education@siggraph.org or to Scott Owen, SIGGRAPH's Director for Education, at owen@siggraph.org Locals: SIGGRAPH has a number of active local groups throughout North America and the rest of the world. These groups allow persons in a region to get to know each other and to share their interests in computer graphics and interactive techniques. For a list of active SIGGRAPH locals or information on how to start a local group, send mail to info.localgroups@siggraph.org or to Jeff Jortner, SIGGRAPH's Director for Local Groups, at jortner@siggraph.org Other conferences: one of the missions of SIGGRAPH is to further the state of the art in computer graphics and interactive techniques through a conference program that goes beyond our annual conference. Some of the conferences we sponsor are listed at the end of this FAQ. For more information or to propose a conference, contact the SIGGRAPH Vice Chair, Sylvie Rueff, rueff@siggraph.org International relations: SIGGRAPH actively works with several international organizations and events. For more information,contact the SIGGRAPH Vice Chair, Sylvie Rueff, rueff@siggraph.org Elections: SIGGRAPH elections are held each spring, and all elected officers serve two year terms beginning on July 1 of the election year. The Chair, Vice Chair and Treasurer are elected in odd years, and Director for Conferences, Director for Communications, Director for Education, and two Directors at Large are elected in even years. A slate of candidates for the next election is selected during the annual conference, or as soon thereafter as possible, by the nominating committee, which is always open to suggestions for candidates. Petition candidates, with signatures of 1% of the SIGGRAPH membership, are also accepted. For more information, contact the SIGGRAPH Past Chair, Judy Brown, at jbrown@siggraph.org. Awards: SIGGRAPH sponsors two awards: the semi-annual Steven Anson Coons Award for outstanding creative contributions to computer graphics, and the Computer Graphics Achievement Award for a major accomplishment that provided a quantum step in the state of the art in computer graphics. These awards are given based on nominations from the graphics community; to nominate someone or get more information, contact awards@siggraph.org Special projects: when possible, SIGGRAPH funds or otherwise supports new and innovative projects that are of benefit to the SIGGRAPH membership. For more information, contact the SIGGRAPH Vice Chair, Sylvie Rueff, rueff@siggraph.org ------------------------------ Section: SIGGRAPH member benefits SIGGRAPH membership benefits individuals in a number of ways. One of these is through a number of publications it provides for its members. We publish four newsletter issues of Computer Graphics each year, with tutorial and expository articles in each that describe current activities and directions in the field. From the annual conference we publish the conference proceedings, one of the world's leading research publications in computer graphics; the visual proceedings, the record of the arts and technology areas of the conference; and the proceedings CD-ROM, an electronic version of the conference proceedings. SIGGRAPH members also have the opportunity to subscribe to our Member Plus program and get five additional conference proceedings for a significant discount, as described above. In addition, SIGGRAPH offers member discounts on the proceedings of its other conferences, on its slides and other CD-ROM publications, and on the SIGGRAPH Video Review. There are, of course, other values in being a SIGGRAPH member. Membership means that you are identified with the world's leading professional organization in the field and you support the other SIGGRAPH work in education, arts and technology, several kinds of conferences, the online computer graphics bibliography, awards, and other areas. You also are elegible for reduced prices for registration at SIGGRAPH- sponsored conferences and for purchases of SIGGRAPH publications. One of the most important benefits of SIGGRAPH membership is the opportunity to receive timely and complete information on the annual SIGGRAPH conference and to participate in this conference at a reduced cost. This conference is the world's premier event in computer graphics and interactive techniques. It lets you see the state of the art in research, hear experts discuss current issues in the field, experience the most recent works in technology and the arts, examine cutting edge applications of technology that have not yet left the laboratory, see the most recent industry products in the field, and meet your peers in the area who are creating tomorrow. If you have questions on membership, please contact the SIGGRAPH Director for Communications, Alyce Kaprow (kaprow@siggraph.org or +1.617.969.0288) ------------------------------ Section: Joining SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH membership categories and prices in U.S. dollars are: Member category: Regular "Lite" Student regular Student "Lite" ACM member $59.00 $27.00 $50.00 $18.00 ACM non-member $85.00 $53.00 ACM membership costs $79.00 for full and associate members and $24.00 for student members. Regular members get both newsletters and conference materials; "Lite" members get newsletters only, since we intend this membership for persons who regularly attend the conference and who don't want to get two copies of conference publications. SIGGRAPH members can add the SIGGRAPH Member Plus subscription. This gives subscribers the proceedings of five additional conferences each year. For 1993 - 1995 the cost of this subscription is $90 per year, and the proceedings included are ACM Multimedia, User Interface Software and Technology, Parallel Rendering Symposium (1993) and Volume Visualization workshop (1994), Computational Geometry, and Graphics Interface 94 (1994) and Solid Modeling Applications (1995). Membership forms can be obtained by sending e-mail to acmhelp@acm.org, by calling ACM Member Services at +1.212.626.0500, or by downloading the file /gen_info/acm_siggraph/acm_application.txt by anonymous ftp from siggraph.org. These same contacts can help with other questions about ACM. ------------------------------ Section: How to order SIGGRAPH materials SIGGRAPH conference proceedings, slides, and CD-ROMs can be ordered from ACM publications by contacting the ACM Member Services, 1515 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 21264 USA, 800.342.6626 (USA Toll Free); +1.212.626.0500 (Alaska, Maryland, and International); +1.212.944.1318 (fax). For more information, you may send e-mail to acmpubs@acm.org. Detailed contents information and an order form for the SIGGRAPH Video Reviews can be downloaded by anonymous ftp from siggraph.org in the directory publications/video_review or you can send mail to info.videoreviews@siggraph.org to get the full catalog and order form. Video Reviews may be ordered from VI&A/1st Priority, P.O. Box 576, Itasca, IL 60143-0576 USA, 800.523.5503 (USA Toll Free); +1.708.250.0807 (international); +1.708.250.0038 (fax); or by e-mail via svrorders@siggraph.org. In cooperation with ACM Press Books and Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., SIGGRAPH announced the SIGGRAPH Books series in the summer of 1993. This series is now developing, but we encourage persons considering or developing a book in the area of computer graphics and interactive techniques to contact the series editor, Steve Cunningham, at cunningham@siggraph.org or +1.209.667.3176. ------------------------------ Section: Online SIGGRAPH services SIGGRAPH has an online system named siggraph.org that we use to provide a number of services to the computer graphics community. We keep several kinds of information there where they can be accessed by gopher, anonymous ftp or an e-mail server, and we use the system as a contact point for SIGGRAPH volunteers. In this section we describe the online information and tell how to use the e-mail contact service. The annual conference Call for Participation, containing a description of the anticipated program for the next annual SIGGRAPH conference and giving information on how you can submit materials to the conference, can be downloaded from the directory conferences/siggraph94/call, where you will find several versions of each section of the Call. The SIGGRAPH online bibliography is available by telnet or other remote login; simply login as user biblio (no password) and you will be executing the biblook shell that gives you interactive query in the bibliography. Help is available on the system. As noted above, the contents and order form for the SIGGRAPH Video Review are online in the directory publications/video_review. In addition, we have developed some online electronic publications that are available through siggraph.org. These include * the panels transcripts from the SIGGRAPH 91 conference, which can be found in publications/proceedings/siggraph91/panels * the May, 1993 online experimental special issue of Computer Graphics, which can be found in publications/May_93_online As a resource to contact SIGGRAPH volunteers, siggraph.org acts as a mail forwarder. If you know the volunteer's name, you can reach her or him through the alias lastname@siggraph.org or, in case of duplicate last names, through the alias firstname_lastname@siggraph.org . If you only know the volunteer's office, you can use officename@siggraph.org (for example, chair@siggraph.org). ------------------------------ Section: Schedule of SIGGRAPH events The SIGGRAPH annual conference schedule is: SIGGRAPH 94, July 24-29, 1994, Orlando, Florida Exhibition July 26-26, 1994 See the Call for Participation information above, or contact siggraph94@siggraph.org SIGGRAPH 95, August 6-11, 1995, Los Angeles, California SIGGRAPH 96, August 4-9, 1996, New Orleans, Louisiana Other conferences sponsored, co-sponsored, or in cooperation with SIGGRAPH Tenth Symposium on Computational Geometry, June 6-8, 1994 Contact Steven Skiena, skiena@sbcs.sunysb.edu Technology and Art Education Workshops, July 11-22, 1994 Contact Nancy Ingle, +1.407.649.8955, ingle@siggraph.org ACM Conference on Multimedia Technologies, October 18-22, 1994 Contact John Limb, jol@hpl.hp.com 1994 Volume Visualization Workshop, October 17-18, 1994 Contact Wolfgang Krueger, krueger@viswiz.gmd.de User Interface Software and Technology 1994, November 2-4, 1994 Marina del Rey, CA. Information available through anonymous ftp to ftp.cc.gatech.edu in pub/uist94 1995 Interactive 3D Graphics Workshop, dates TBD 1995 Solid Modeling Applications, dates TBD For information on other conferences of interest to the computer graphics and interactive techniques community, please see the most recent issue of Computer Graphics, which contains a full calendar of activities. SIGGRAPH Executive Committee meetings These meetings are open to any SIGGRAPH member, but the meeting schedule varies. For more information, contact the SIGGRAPH Chair at chair@siggraph.org ------------------------------ Section: Conference Details What are the Conference Dates and Location? SIGGRAPH 94 will be held in Orlando, Florida. The majority of the events will be held at the Orange County Convention Center, with some of the technical sessions being held at participating conference hotels. How do I get Conference Information? SIGGRAPH 94 is has completed an advance announcement of the conference. Included are be descriptions of all the venues being planned for SIGGRAPH 94. Specific paper and panel topics are not included as they have note been selected at this time. However, course titles with two-line descriptions per course are included. This piece will also provide attendees with housing and registration forms to get an early start on these important details. A hard copy version of the advance announcement can be sent to you by contacting conference management at 312/321.6830, or by emailing your name/address information to conference management at siggraph94@siggraph.org. A copy of the advance announcement will also be available in ASCII, PostScript, and Adobe Acrobat versions via anonymous ftp from siggraph.org. They are located under the directory conferences/siggraph94/advance_announcement and will be on-line around February 15, 1994. The advance program, with full conference details, will be available in early May. You may obtain a copy of the advance program by contacting conference management at 312/321.6830; or by emailing your name/address information to conference management at siggraph94@siggraph.org. The advance program will also be available in the same electronic formats as the advance announcement and will be available around mid-May. It will be located under the directory: conferences/siggraph94/advance_program. How can I get Information on Exhibiting? For information on exhibiting at SIGGRAPH 94, contact Barbara Voss or Mike Weil at the SIGGRAPH 94 exhibition management company, Hall-Erickson, Inc. Barbara and Mike can be reached via the following methods: Telephone: 708/850-7779 Fax: 708/850-7843 Email: hallerickson@siggraph.org Mail: Hall Erickson, Inc. 150 Burlington Avenue Clarendon Hills, IL 60514 How can I register for the Conference? The registration deadline to receive discounted registration fees is Friday, June 17. Forms must be postmarked by this date in order to qualify for the reduced fees. Registration forms, obtained from either the advance announcement or advance program, must be accompanied with full payment before the form can be processed. Acceptable forms of payment are Company Checks, Personal Checks, Money Orders, American Express, MasterCard and Visa. Your registration form should be sent directly to SIGGRAPH 94 at the address shown on the registration form. If paying by credit card, your registration form can be faxed directly to the conference management office at 312/321.6876. If you are faxing your registration form, to avoid duplicate billing, do not also mail a hard copy. Please note that around the early registration cutoff date, the fax volume is extraordinary. If you wait until this date to attempt to fax your registration form, you may experience difficulty getting your fax through. SIGGRAPH 94 is not responsible for forms received after the cutoff date due to busy phone lines. Also, if faxing your registration form in time to receive the early registration fees, it is recommended that you keep a copy of the fax transmission showing your form went through. In the event of a problem, the fax transmission will be accepted as proof of early submission and early rates will be honored. How Can I Cancel my Registration to SIGGRAPH 94? All cancellation requests must be received in writing...no cancellations are accepted via the telephone. Refund requests must be postmarked on or before Tuesday, July 5. All cancellations are subject to a $50 processing fee. Although no cancellations are accepted if postmarked after July 5, we do allow substitutions for the original attendee at any time. We ask that a letter be submitted on company letterhead either in advance or presented on-site. If the new attendee changes the registration category resulting in a lower registration fee, no refund will be made if after the refund cancellation date. If the new attendee changes the registration category resulting in a higher registration fee, the original payment will be applied against the new fee. Will I be Refunded if I Can't Get in the Course of My Choice? New in 1994 is a pricing structure that allows for attendees to pay one fee and attend as many courses as they'd like. There is no longer an option to select a specific course and pay for that course only. If there is only one particular course you are interested in, we would encourage you to arrive at this course early to guarantee admission. Refunds will not be given after the registration cancellation date. Can I Purchase Merchandise if I'm not Attending the Conference? All SIGGRAPH 94 merchandise, except printed course notes, must be picked up at the convention center during the conference. Attendees may order printed course notes and pay a nominal shipping fee to have the printed version of the course notes shipped to them. Shipments are accepted only to addresses in the Continental USA. Slide sets, Conference Proceedings, Visual Proceedings, and Conference and Multimedia CD-ROMs are available by contacting ACM Member Services, 1515 Broadway, 17th Floor, New York, NY 21264 USA, 800.342.6626 (USA Toll Free); +1.212.626.0500 (Alaska, Maryland, and International); +1.212.944.1318 (fax). SIGGRAPH Video Reviews are available for purchase by contacting First Priority, P.O. Box 576, Itasca, IL 60143-0576 USA, 800/523-5503 (USA Toll Free); 708/250-0807 (international); 708/250-0038 (fax). Can I Purchase Extra Electronic Theater Tickets? Electronic Theater tickets for all shows will go on sale when registration opens on Sunday, July 24. If your preferred evening is sold out, it is also a good idea to check at the door of the Electronic Theater. Typically we have a minimal number of tickets turned back to us from exhibitors that we can offer for sale prior to the start of the event. How do I Make Hotel Reservations? You can either fax or mail the housing form from the advance announcement or advance program to ATI Travel Management, 401 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL 60611-4267 USA, 312/644-6369 (fax). If you prefer, you can also email the appropriate information from this form to travel.s94@siggraph.org. How Can I Contribute to Conference Activities? There is still time to contribute to a number of the SIGGRAPH 94 venues including the Technical Sketches, the Art and Design Show, the Electronic Theater, the Edge, SIGKids, Slide Sets, Multimedia CD-ROM, and Student Volunteers. Deadlines for papers, panels, and SIGGRAPH 94 courses have now passed. The SIGGRAPH 94 Call for Participation is available electronically or in hard copy. The electronic version of the Call for Participation is available on-line via anonymous ftp from siggraph.org. The files are located under the directory: conferences/siggraph94/call. A hard copy version of the call for participation can be sent to you by contacting conference management at 312/321.6830; or by emailing your name/address information to conference management at siggraph94@siggraph.org. The call for participation for SIGGRAPH 95 will be available at SIGGRAPH 94. Stop by the SIGGRAPH 95 booth in the registration area to pick one up. The call will outline areas in which an attendee can contribute as well as appropriate deadline dates. If you're not attending the conference, you can contact prsba@siggraph.org to request a copy of the 1995 Call for Participation, or you can get a copy of it electronically from siggrapg.org after SIGGRAPH 94. Does SIGGRAPH Offer Child Care? SIGGRAPH 94 will be contracting a licensed and bonded child care agency to provide professional child care for attendees' families. Costs and schedules for child care services have not yet been determined. Complete information will be available in April. To be sure information is mailed to you, you can contact conference management at 312/321.6830; or by email your name/address information to conference management at siggraph94@siggraph.org.