About ACM SIGGRAPH

The purpose of ACM SIGGRAPH is “to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques”. ACM SIGGRAPH convenes the annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference. It is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals. The organization also sponsors other conferences around the world, and regular events are held by its professional and student chapters in several countries. The organization's stated values are excellence, integrity, volunteerism, passion and cross-disciplinary interaction.

ACM SIGGRAPH'S origins
ACM SIGGRAPH was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam,the pioneering professor of computer science and former Vice-President for Research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. (its direct predecessor, ACM SICGRAPH was founded two years earlier in 1967). It is one of 34 SIGs of ACM.

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ACM's purpose

ACM is an educational and scientific society uniting the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges.

ACM's origins

The Association for Computing Machinery was founded as the Eastern Association for Computing Machinery at a meeting at Columbia University in New York on September 15, 1947. Its creation was the logical outgrowth of increasing interest in computers as evidenced by several events, including a January 1947 symposium at Harvard University on large-scale digital calculating machinery; the six-meeting series in 1946-47 on digital and analog computing machinery conducted by the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers; and the six-meeting series in March and April 1947, on electronic computing machinery conducted by the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In January 1948, the word "Eastern" was dropped from the name of the Association. In September 1949, a constitution was instituted by membership approval.

ACM's national website is: www.ACM.org