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History: The ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive—Moving Forward by Looking Backwards

DescriptionThis talk will focus on the progress and updates made to the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive over the past year. The archive is an online repository and physical collection of artifacts and documents from the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques and includes both documentation of conference and organization events. The archive team is co-directed by Bonnie Mitchell and Jan Searleman and consists of student interns and volunteers from the SIGGRAPH community. Some of the volunteers focus on a particular task such as image processing whereas other team members focus on data entry and scanning. The archive also is supported by a large group of SIGGRAPH community members through donations of materials, support for the student interns, and advice. Members of the team will speak about their roles and the successes and challenges they faced. We will also talk about the physical archive and its future. This session will also be an opportunity for the SIGGRAPH community to offer suggestions and assistance in helping to make the past 50 years of SIGGRAPH conferences as well as information about the organization available to researchers, academics, and the community at large.

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