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- From: wrf@ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
- Subject: Re: SIGGRAPH member benefits
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:59:25 GMT
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- In article <17j0u4INNc7j@network.ucsd.edu> on 27 Aug 92 16:47:00 GMT,
- spl@szechuan.uucp (Steve Lamont) writes:
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- > I'm all for splitting SIGGRAPH off from ACM -- that way ACM could form
- > a new organization that would concentrate on the academic and research
- > aspects of computer graphics, as opposed to the show biz.
-
- Now now.... That's what I thought the visualization conference was
- intended to do, and why I joked that it might be held separately to keep
- people away.
-
- Actually a decade ago the NCGA went head to head with SIGGRAPH and tried
- to siphon off the industry types. Even IBM considered dropping out of
- SIGGRAPH one year, after they'd paid their deposit. Anyone know what
- the NCGA is doing today? :-)
-
- There is a more theoretical conference, Symposium on Computational
- Geometry. However sometimes it seems to be a backup for papers rejected
- by FOCS and STOC, (the 2 leading theoretical CS conferences); very good
- papers, but quite theoretical.
-
- In spite of (or because of?) the glitz SIGGRAPH does print good academic
- and research papers. I'm not saying this just because I've had three
- papers in it.
-
- The concept of organizations and conferences changing shouldn't be so
- strange. In GIS, for instance, conferences come, serve their purpose,
- and then must defend themselves against the suggestion that they go.
- There was serious consideration given to stopping the successful
- research AUTOCARTO series after 10 irregular conferences because its
- goals were perhaps being met in other ways (and because the ASPRS, its
- larger host organization for conference scheduling, was so unaware of
- Autocarto that they clean forgot to schedule its conference this time.)
-
- My philosophy is that organizations serve the people, not the reverse.
- If the org outlives its usefulness, then death!
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- Wm. Randolph Franklin, wrf@ecse.rpi.edu, (518) 276-6077; Fax: -6261
- ECSE Dept., 6026 JEC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180 USA
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