SIGGRAPH
250px SIGGRAPH 2007 official logo
Status	Active
Genre	computer graphics conference
Country	United States
First held	1974
Last held	2011
Organizer	ACM SIGGRAPH
Official website	www.siggraph.org

Hydraulophone, presented at SIGGRAPH 2007

SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. Past SIGGRAPH conferences have been held in Los Angeles, Dallas, New Orleans, Boston and elsewhere across the United States.

Overview[link]

Sand printer, presented at SIGGRAPH 2004

Some highlights of the conference are its Animation Theater and Electronic Theater presentations, where recently created CG films are played. There is a large exhibition floor, where several hundred companies set up elaborate booths and compete for attention and recruits. Most of the companies are in the engineering, graphics, motion picture, or video game industries. There are also many booths for schools which specialize in computer graphics or interactivity.

Dozens of research papers are presented each year, and SIGGRAPH is widely considered the most prestigious forum for the publication of computer graphics research. The recent paper acceptance rate for SIGGRAPH has been less than 20%.^[1] The papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH are currently printed in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal. Prior to 2002, SIGGRAPH papers were printed in the SIGGRAPH Conference Proceedings series of publications.

In addition to the papers, there are numerous panels of industry experts set up to discuss a wide variety of topics, from computer graphics to machine interactivity to education. SIGGRAPH also offers many full- and half-day courses in state-of-the-art computer graphics topics, as well as shorter "sketch" presentations where artists and researchers discuss their latest work.

In 1984, under LucasFilm Computer Group, John Lasseter's first computer animated short, The Adventures of André & Wally B., premiered at SIGGRAPH. Pixar's first computer animated short, Luxo, Jr. debuted in 1986. Pixar has debuted numerous shorts at the conference since.^[2]

Conference Areas[link]

The following conference areas are the areas scheduled for SIGGRAPH 2012^[3], as some conference areas vary annually.

• ACM Student Research Competition
• Art Gallery : presents digital and technologically mediated artworks
• Art Papers : features the artists and artwork, and processes and theoretical frameworks for making art and contextualizing its place in society.
• Birds of a Feather : Informal presentations, discussions, and demonstrations
• Computer Animation Festival : an annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators.
• Courses : attendees learn from the experts in the field and gain inside knowledge that is critical to career advancement.
• Emerging Technologies : presents innovative technologies and applications in several fields, from displays and input devices to collaborative environments and robotics, and technologies that apply to film and game production.
• Exhibition : presents the newest hardware systems, software tools, and creative services from hundreds of companies.
• International Resources : focusing on the state of computer graphics in different regions of the world, it offers bilingual tours of conference programs, informal translation services, and space for meetings, talks, and demonstrations.
• Job Fair : a place at the conference for employers to meet with thousands of job seekers
• Keynote Speakers : stories from the most influential practitioners in computer graphics, interactive techniques, and related fields
• Panels : moderated discussions on important topics, with expert panelists chosen by the organizers to provide a wide range of perspectives.
• Posters : presenting student, in-progress, and late-breaking work.
• Real-Time Live! : howcase for the latest trends and techniques for pushing the boundaries of interactive visuals.
• Sandbox : provides an opportunity to get hands-on with the latest, most innovative real-time projects produced over the last 12 months.
• SIGGRAPH Business Symposium
• SIGGRAPH Dailies : Each presenter has one minute to present an animation and describe the work.
• Studio : a place for making and creating at SIGGRAPH.
• Talks : presentations on recent achievements in all areas of computer graphics and interactive techniques, including art, design, animation, visual effects, interactivity, research, and engineering.
• Technical Papers : the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
• Technical Papers Fast Forward : summary of Technical Papers.

SIGGRAPH Asia[link]

Since 2008, a second yearly SIGGRAPH conference has been held in Asia. The first SIGGRAPH Asia conference was held in Singapore from the tenth to the thirteenth of December 2008 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre;^[4] the second one in Yokohama, Japan in the period from 16 December to 19 December 2009 at Pacifico Yokohama;^[5] and the third in Seoul, Korea in the time period from 15 December to 18 December 2010 at Coex Convention & Exhibition Center Seoul.^[6] The fourth conference is going to be held in Hong Kong.^[7]

Specific SIGGRAPH Conferences[link]

See also[link]

• Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• ACM Transactions on Graphics
• Computer Graphics, a publication of ACM SIGGRAPH
• The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.

References[link]

External links[link]

• ACM SIGGRAPH website
• French Chapter, Paris ACM SIGGRAPH
• Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH
• Website which offer links to Siggraph Papers and Projects etc.
• SIGGRAPH 2009 Important Dates (Submission Deadlines)
• SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 website
• SIGGRAPH 2007 Live reporting from San Diego - tips, shuttle info, daily reporting

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow signing a book during June 2010.
Born	(1971-07-17) July 17, 1971 (age 40) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Author, blogger
Genres	Science fiction, postcyberpunk
Notable work(s)	Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother
Notable award(s)	John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Prometheus Award, Sunburst Award
Spouse(s)	Alice Taylor
Children	Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow
Influences William Gibson [1]
craphound.com

Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British^[2] blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, and "post-scarcity" economics.^[3]

Life and career[link]

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Trotskyist teachers,^[4] Doctorow was raised in a Jewish activist^[5] household. His father was born in a refugee camp in Azerbaijan^[6] and Doctorow became involved with nuclear disarmament activism and as a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. He received his high school diploma from SEED School, an anarchistic "free school" in Toronto, and attended four universities without attaining a degree. ^{[7] [8]}

He later served on the board of directors for the Grindstone Island Co-operative in Big Rideau Lake in Ontario.

During 1992 Doctorow went on a volunteer visit to Costa Rica with Youth Challenge International (YCI), which he found "profoundly good and profoundly enriching".^[9]

During June 1999, he co-initiated the free software P2P company Opencola with John Henson and Grad Conn. The company was sold to the Open Text Corporation of Waterloo, Ontario during the summer of 2003.^[3]

Doctorow relocated to London and worked as European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation for four years,^[3] helping to establish the Open Rights Group, before quitting to pursue writing full-time during January 2006. Upon his departure, Doctorow was named a Fellow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.^[3]

He was named the 2006-2007 Canadian Fulbright Chair for Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, sponsored jointly by the Royal Fulbright Commission,^[10] the Integrated Media Systems Center, and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. The professorship included a one year writing and teaching residency at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.^[3][11]

He then returned to London. He is a frequent public speaker on copyright issues.

During 2009, Doctorow became the first Independent Studies Scholar in Virtual Residence at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He was formerly a student in the program during 1993-94, but quit without completing a thesis.

Doctorow married Alice Taylor on Sunday, October 26, 2008,^[12] and together they have one daughter named Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow, who was born during 2008.^[13] Cory became a British citizen by naturalisation on 12 August 2011.^[2]

Other work and fellowships[link]

He served as Canadian Regional Director of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America during 1999.

Together with Austrian art group monochrom he initiated the Instant Blitz Copy Fight project, for which people from all over the world are asked to take flash pictures of copyright warnings in movie theaters.^[14]

At the 2003 Torcon 3 World Science Fiction Convention, Doctorow was a featured guest.^{[citation needed]}

On October 31, 2005, Doctorow was involved in a controversy concerning digital rights management with Sony-BMG, as told in Wikinomics.^[15]

Cory Doctorow at the Singularity Summit at Stanford in 2006

Doctorow is a regular contributor to the TVOntario podcast Search Engine, formerly on CBC.

Fiction[link]

Doctorow began selling fiction when he was 17 years old and sold several stories followed by publication of his story "Craphound" during 1998.^[16]

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Doctorow's first novel, was published during January 2003, and was the first novel released under one of the Creative Commons licences, allowing readers to circulate the electronic edition as long as they neither made money from it nor used it to create derived works. The electronic edition was released simultaneously with the print edition. During March 2003, it was re-released with a different Creative Commons licence that allowed derivative works such as fan fiction, but still prohibited commercial usage. It was nominated for a Nebula Award,^[17] and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel during 2004. A semi-sequel short story named Truncat was published on Salon.com in August 2003.^[18]

Doctorow's other novels have been released with Creative Commons licences that allow derived works and prohibit commercial usage, and he has used the model of making digital versions available, without charge, at the same time that print versions are published.

His Sunburst Award-winning short story collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More, was also published during 2004: "0wnz0red" from this collection was nominated for the 2004 Nebula Award for Best Novelette.^[19]

Doctorow (left) pictured at the 2006 Lift Conference with fellow Boing Boing contributor Jasmina Tešanović (centre) and cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling (right).

Doctorow released the bestselling novel Little Brother in 2008 with a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence.^[20] It was nominated for a 2009 Hugo Award, and won the 2009 Prometheus Award,^[21] Sunburst Award,^[22] and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.

His novel Makers was released during October 2009, and is being serialized for free on the Tor Books website.^[23]

Doctorow's newest young adult novel, For The Win, was released during May 2010. The novel is available free on the author's website as a Creative Commons download, and is also published in traditional paper format by Tor Books. The book concerns massively multiplayer online role-playing games.^[24]

Doctorow's short story collection "With a Little Help" was released in printed format on May 3, 2011. It is a project to demonstrate the profitability of Doctorow's method of releasing his books in print and subsequently for free under Creative Commons.^[25][26]

In September, 2012, Doctorow will release The Rapture of The Nerds, novel written in collaboration with Charles Stross.^[27]

Nonfiction and other writings[link]

Doctorow's nonfiction works include his first book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (co-written with Karl Schroeder and published during 2000), and his contributions to Boing Boing, the weblog he co-edits, as well as regular columns in the magazines Popular Science and Make. He is a Contributing Writer to Wired magazine, and contributes occasionally to other magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Globe and Mail, Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, and the Boston Globe. During 2004, he wrote an essay on Wikipedia included in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, comparing Internet attempts at Hitchhiker's Guide-type resources, including a discussion of the Wikipedia article about himself.

Doctorow contributed the foreword to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. He also was a contributing writer for the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century.^[28]

He popularized the term "metacrap" by a 2001 essay titled "Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia."^[29] Some of his non-fiction published between 2001 and 2007 has been collected by Tachyon Publications as Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.

Opinions on intellectual property[link]

Doctorow believes that copyright laws should be liberalized to allow for free sharing of all digital media. He has also advocated filesharing.^[30] He argues that copyright holders should have a monopoly on selling their own digital media, and copyright laws should only be operative when someone attempts to sell a product currently under someone else's copyright.

Doctorow is an opponent of Digital Rights Management, claiming that it limits the free sharing of digital media and frequently causes problems for legitimate users (including registration problems that lock users out of their own purchases and prevent them from being able to move their media to other devices).^[31]

In popular culture[link]

Cory Doctorow wears a red cape, goggles and a balloon as he receives the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, spoofing an xkcd webcomic in which he is mentioned.

The webcomic xkcd occasionally features a partially fictional version of Doctorow who lives in a hot air balloon "up in" the "blogosphere" ("above the tag clouds") and wears a red cape and goggles, such as in the comic "Blagofaire".^[32] When Doctorow won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award, the presenters gave him a red cape, goggles and a balloon.^[33]

Awards[link]

• 2000 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer^[34]
• 2004 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
• 2004 Sunburst Award for A Place So Foreign and Eight More
• 2007 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award^[35]

For Little Brother

• 2009 John W. Campbell Memorial Award^[36]
• 2009 Prometheus Award^[21]
• 2009 Sunburst Award^[22]
• 2009 White Pine Award^[37]

Bibliography[link]

Science fiction novels[link]

• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Tor. 2003. ISBN 0-7653-0436-8.  with a Creative Commons licence
• Eastern Standard Tribe. Tor. 2004. ISBN 0-7653-0759-6.  with a Creative Commons licence
• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town. Tor. 2005. ISBN 0-7653-1278-6.  and with a Creative Commons licence.
• Little Brother. Tom Doherty Associates. 2008. ISBN 0-7653-1985-3.  and with a Creative Commons licence
• Makers. Tor. 2009. ISBN 0-7653-1279-4.  and with a Creative Commons licence.
• For The Win. Tor. 2010. ISBN 0-7653-2216-1.  and with a Creative Commons licence.
• Pirate Cinema. Tor. October 12, 2012. ISBN 0-7653-2908-5.  and with a Creative Commons licence.

Short stories and anthologies[link]

• 0wnz0red, short story, 2002
• Truncat (short story) -- a quasi-sequel to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, 2003.
• A Place So Foreign and Eight More (short story collection, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003).
• I, Robot (Hugo nominated short story, InfiniteMatrix.net, 2005)
• Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (short story collection, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007) ISBN 1-56025-981-7
• Scroogled originally appeared in the magazine Radar, 2007.
• True Names, (short story with Benjamin Rosenbaum) in Fast Forward 2, edited by Lou Anders, ISBN 978-1-59102-692-1, 2008
• There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow / Now is the Best Time of Your Life (97 pgs.; in an edited anthology, 2010)^[16]
• With a Little Help, (short stories collection, December 2010)
• Chicken Little (from short story anthology, Gateways, edited by Elizabeth Anne Hull, April 2011).

Other[link]

• Ebooks: Neither E Nor Books. (February 12, 2004)
• Glenn Yeffeth, ed., The Anthology at the End of the Universe?, chapter titled "Wikipedia: A Genuine H2G2-Minus the Editors", by Cory Doctorow, Benbella Books ISBN 1-932100-56-3.
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction (self-help, Alpha Books, 2000).
• Essential Blogging (tech help, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002). ISBN 0-596-00388-9.
• /usr/bin/god (novel; Tor Books) — In a June 11, 2008 interview with the Onion's A.V. Club, Doctorow stated that the book was "on the shelf more or less permanently, although it might be resurrected at some point".^[38]
• Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (September, 2008).
• Context: Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century (October, 2011)^[39]
• The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (November, 2011)^[40]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Cory Doctorow

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cory Doctorow

• Doctorow, Corey at the Open Directory Project
• Cory Doctorow's personal website
• Boing Boing blog
• BookBanter interviews Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow's USC Course
• Cory Doctorow at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• When Cory Doctorow Ruled the World (February 2007 interview, with link to audio)
• Video of keynote speech at LIFT06 conference
• Video of Cory Doctor's lecture, "Copyright versus Universal Access to All Human Knowledge and Groups Without Cost: the state of play in the global copyfight" at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival
• Manifesto for a virtual revolution: 2010 interview with Tom Chatfield, discussing For the Win and cyber-activism
• Rethinking Privacy in an Age of Disclosure and Sharing discussion with Peter Barron, Claire Fox, Norman Lewis of Wireless Grids Corporation, and Anna Minton at The Institute of Ideas, October 2009
• For the Win book talk at Books Inc., May 2010
• Several electronic books (eBooks) written by Cory Doctorow are available in the Works by Cory Doctorow at Project Gutenberg for free.