SIGGRAPH

Date: July 25-29, 2010
City: New Orleans, LA
Location: Ernest N. Morial Conv. Center

About SIGGRAPH

Now in its 36th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2009 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 2010, SIGGRAPH’s Computer Animation Festival celebrates its 37th year as the world's most innovative and stimulating showcase of computer-generated animation and visual effects. This four-day, international event presents a wide spectrum of computer animation genres and styles ranging from narrative character animation to scientific visualization, mainstream TV commercials, and digital effects for futuristic movies.

Event Information

Date: August 3-7, 2009
City: New Orleans, LA
Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

About SIGGRAPH

Now in its 36th year, the SIGGRAPH conference is the premier international event on computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2009 is expected to draw an estimated 25,000 professionals from five continents to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Who

Splash, splatter, babble, sploosh, drip, drop, bloop and ploop!

Those are some of the sounds that have been missing from computer graphic simulations of water and other fluids, according to researchers in Cornell's Department of Computer Science, who have come up with new algorithms to simulate such sounds to go with the images.

Source: The Inquirer

AFTER 34 years of US domicile, the first Far Eastern version of the famous Siggraph Singapore. Next year it'll be in Yokohama, and 2010, Seoul. Events follow the money and that is moving in huge buckets from West to East in these days of crisis.

The four day inaugural event, gathered a bunch of luminaries including Rob Cook, a VP of Pixar animation - the first Oscar winner for software; along with some 6,000 graphics geeks that are estimated to be attending the fest.