About us

Board and commitee

The Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter is the result of the hard work of volunteers that devote their time to running the chapter and preparing events. The board and commitee members for the 2008-2009 season are:

Chair: Eric Paquette (École de technologie supérieure) [2007-2009 mandate]
Vice-chair: Alexandre Renaud (Centre NAD) [2008-2010 mandate]
Secretary: Frédéric Tessier (Québarium) [2008-2009 mandate]
Treasurer: Christopher Isaac Larnder (John Abbott College) [2008-2010 mandate]
Webmaster: Vincent Rioux (Centre NAD) [2008-2010 mandate]
Events commitee: Didier Giovannangeli, Christopher Isaac Larnder (John Abbott College), Eric Paquette (École de technologie supérieure), Pierre Poulin (Université de Montréal), Alexandre Renaud (Centre NAD)

We also wish to thank the many volunteers who helped the chapter throughout the years.

Mission

We are the Montreal chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. We are a volunteer-based non-profit scientific and professional society serving researchers, professionals and artists in the Montreal area who are involved in the fields of computer graphics and interactive techniques. This includes 2D and 3D graphics, multimedia, visualization and simulation, video games, and virtual and augmented reality, as well as artistic applications of the former.

ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapters form a global network within the ACM SIGGRAPH community, each providing a geographically localized focus of activities and exchanges and contributing to the enthusiasm, creative energy and high standards of the SIGGRAPH annual conference.

The people and the organizations in the Montreal area who are involved in these fields form a unique and exciting community, both in terms of technology and of culture. Our goal is to strengthen this community by providing frequent opportunities for both formal and informal communication among its members.

Read about the establishment of the chapter during its founding year and the founding committee that made it happen. There is also a 2004 article about us published in the Computer Graphics Quarterly.

Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH members have been actively involved in the organization of every SIGGRAPH conference of this century, as well as the last conference of the previous one:

	SIGGRAPH 2000 July 23-28 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2001 August 12-17 Los Angeles, California, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2002 July 21-26 San Antonio, Texas, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2003 July 27-31 San Diego, California, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2004 August 8-12 Los Angeles, California, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2005 July 31-August 4 Los Angeles, California, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2006 July 30-August 3 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2007 August 5-9 San Diego, California, USA
	SIGGRAPH 2008 August 10-15 Los Angeles, California, USA