ACM SIGGRAPH Award Presentation
MONDAY, 6 AUGUST | 11 AM - 1 PM | West Hall B
ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks
MONDAY, 6 AUGUST | 2 - 3:30 PM | Room 408B
Stream of the ACM SIGGRAPH Award Talks!
ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Award Recipients
Greg Turk
Georgia Institute of Technology
Computer Graphics Achievement Award
Karen Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
Significant New Researcher Award
Jean-Pierre Hébert
University of California, Santa Barbara
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
David Kasik
The Boeing Company
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award
The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.
The Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics
This award, presented during odd-numbered years, recognizes long-term creative impact on the field of computer graphics through a personal commitment over an extended period of time.
The Steven Anson Coons Award has been presented to: Ivan E. Sutherland, Pierre Bézier, Donald P. Greenberg, David C. Evans, Andries van Dam, Edwin Catmull, Jose Encarnação, James D. Foley, James F. Blinn, Lance Williams, Pat Hanrahan, Tomoyuki Nishita, Nelson Max, Rob Cook, and Jim Kajiya.
The Computer Graphics Achievement Award
The Computer Graphics Achievement award is given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Past recipients of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award are: James F. Blinn, James H. Clark, Loren Carpenter, Turner Whitted, Robert L. Cook, Alan H. Barr, John E. Warnock, Richard Shoup, Alvy Ray Smith, James T. Kajiya, Henry Fuchs, Patrick Hanrahan, Kenneth E. Torrance, Kurt Akeley, Marc Levoy, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Michael F. Cohen, Anthony D. DeRose, David Salesin, Andy Witkin, David Kirk, Peter Schröder, Hugues Hoppe, Jos Stam, Thomas W. Sederberg, Greg Ward, Ken Perlin, Michael Kass, Jessica Hodgins, and Richard Szeliski.
The Significant New Researcher Award
The Significant New Researcher Award is awarded annually to a researcher who has made a recent significant contribution to the field of computer graphics and is new to the field. The intent is to recognize people who, though early in their careers, have already made a notable contribution.
The Significant New Researcher Award has been presented to Paul Debevec, Steven J. Gortler, Mathieu Desbrun, Zoran Popović, Ronald Fedkiw, Takeo Igarashi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala, Wojciech Matusik, Alexei Efros, and Olga Sorkine.
The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art
The Distinguished Artist Award is awarded annually to an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.
This award was presented for the first time in 2009. The award has been presented to Roman Verostko, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, and Charles Csuri.
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award
This award, presented for the first time at SIGGRAPH 98, is given on even-numbered years to recognize outstanding service to ACM SIGGRAPH by a volunteer. It recognizes persons who have given extraordinary service to ACM SIGGRAPH, both in the trenches and in positions of more responsibility or visibility, over a significant period of time.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award has been presented to Maxine Brown, Thomas DeFanti, Copper Frances Giloth, Bertram Herzog, Judith R. Brown, Steve Cunningham, John M. Fujii, Stephen Spencer, and Kellogg S. Booth.