August 11, 2011 Thursday morning, we checked out of our hotel, had our bags held at the convention center and began attending more SIGGRAPH presentations. As soon as we finished our last event, Ruben and I went to the Pacific Central Station, checked our bags there and spent some time exploring Chinatown before embarking on [...]
August 10, 2011 Ruben and I wanted to make the most of our time in Vancouver, so we got up really early Wednesday morning to explore Vancouver (and do some geocaching) before we had to attend our first SIGGRAPH event of the day. We ventured to Granville Island, and the gayborhood (Davie Village) before returning [...]
August 9, 2011 Like all SIGGRAPH conferences, this one was another exercise in information overload. There is no way one person can take in everything this conference has to offer…but we always try. Tuesday we attended more presentations and explored the exhibition floor where software and hardware company’s show off their latest innovations. That evening, [...]
August 7, 2011 Early Sunday morning, Ruben and I accompanied my boss, Bill, to King Street Station to board the Amtrak Cascades. Not only was it cheaper to fly to Seattle and take the train to Vancouver, but it was a BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY. Yes, everything comes with a price. While the train ride was more [...]
August 6, 2011 Once again, students, faculty and staff from my department embarked on another SIGGRAPH adventure. This year professionals and educators from various fields of art and science gathered in Vancouver, Canada for SIGGRAPH 2011 to share and celebrate the latest advances in visualization. This year, Ruben accompanied me to SIGGRAPH. Our journey began [...]
September 14, 2010 This past August, I spent a week with students faculty, and staff in LA, attending SIGGRAPH (a computer-graphics conference). At this event, I entered to win a huge inflatable screen being used in one of the exhibits. I was surprised and excited when I found out I won! The only thing I [...]
July 25-30, 2010 I spent the last week of July with fellow TAMU staff, faculty, and students at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Las Angeles, CA. SIGGRAPH is the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. Thousands of CG artists, researchers, developers and producers gather for this conference. FYI: SIGGRAPH is short for [...]
August 6-7, 2009
The last two days of this conference were just as busy as the start of the week. Thursday was spent attending the Disney educators meeting where Disney presented the work they had recently done with our students this past summer.
