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SIGGRAPH Celebrates Women of Influence Panel Coming March 31

Join the conversation; virtual event features a discussion with women who shaped the organization and continue to blaze new trails in the computer graphics industry.

SIGGRAPH is celebrating the women who shaped the conference and computer graphics industry. Join the conversation – Register here.

SIGGRAPH Celebrates Women of Influence – Pioneers and Change Makers

DATE: March 31, 2021

TIME: 12:00 PM EST

LOCATION: Zoom

Panelists include:

  • Maxine D. Brown, SIGGRAPH Pioneer, ACM SIGGRAPH ’92 conference chair and retired director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
  • Marie-Paule Cani, Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris-Saclay, France, technical paper chair of ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 and Member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy
  • Maureen Stone, director, Tableau Research, Technical Paper Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH ‘87 and editor-in-chief IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications from 2007 to 2010
  • Rebecca Strzelec, Distinguished Professor of Visual Arts and program coordinator of Visual Art Studies at Penn State University, Altoona College and ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference ChairModerator:
  • Adele Newton executive director, CS-Can|Info-Can, ACM SIGGRAPH ’88 Conference co-chair and chair of the SIGGRAPH Communications Committee

The panel discussion will be recorded and made available on demand through the SIGGRAPH Website.

Additional information is available here.

Source: ACM SIGGRAPH