rsc@altair.csustan.edu (Steve Cunningham) (05/10/91)
SIGGRAPH '91 Educators' Program
31 July - 2 August 1991
Las Vegas, Nevada
SIGGRAPH '91 has added several innovations to the traditional core of
SIGGRAPH programs. Among these is the educators' program, a full two-
and-a-half-day program of papers and panels focused on educational
issues raised by the rapid evolution of computer graphics. This program
addresses issues in the arts, in design, and in computer science at both
pre-college and undergraduate levels. What is an effective computer
graphics curriculum? How can creative cross-disciplinary collaborations
be arranged and nurtured? How can computer graphics create effective
learning tools and environments? This note is your invitation to attend
SIGGRAPH '91 and the educators' program and see the state of the art in
computer graphics education and technology.
The SIGGRAPH '91 educators' program contains the following presentations:
---------------- Wednesday afternoon ----------------
Panel: What Next? A Provocative Look at Curriculum, Creativity and
Logistics in Teaching Artists and Designers to Use Computers.
Chair: Tony Longson, CalState Los Angeles.
Panel: Mars Navigator: An Interactive, Multimedia Exploration of the
Red Planet. Chair: Rob Wolff, Apple Computer
---------------- Thursday morning ----------------
Paper: Teaching a Two Quarter Computer Graphics Sequence.
G. Scott Owen, Georgia State University
Paper: Getting to the "Graphics" in a Computer Graphics Exercise.
Dino Schweitzer and Linda Northrop, U. S. Air Force Academy
Paper: TUGS: A Tool for Teaching Computer Graphics.
John Clevenger, Cal State Sacramento
Panel: Mathematics Education Using Computer Graphics.
Chair: Steven Tanimoto, University of Washington
---------------- Thursday afternoon ----------------
Panel: Discovery Through Experimentation: Art and Educational
Computing in Secondary Schools.
Chair: Kim Abshere, Dueitt Middle School, Spring, Texas
Panel: Educational Technology: "Doing With Images Makes Symbols."
Chair: Coco Conn, Homer and Associates
---------------- Friday morning ----------------
Panel: Integrating Computer Graphics into Design Education.
Chair: Adele Newton, Alias Research.
Panel: Computer Graphics and Architectural Design.
Chair: Glenn Goldman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
---------------- Friday afternoon ----------------
Paper: Virtual Reality Learning Environments: Potentials and
Challenges. Meredith Bricken, University of Washington
Paper: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Case Study in Computer Graphics
Education: "Venus and Milo." Donna Cox, University of Illinois
Paper: An Engineering Graphics Curriculum Model with Multidisciplinary
Implications.
Michael B. McGrath, Colorado School of Mines et.al.
Paper: A Workshop on Computer Graphics for Undergraduate Faculty.
G. Scott Owen and Valerie A. Miller, Georgia State University
The SIGGRAPH '91 educators' program is a special innovation, and
registration is available for it at the special price of $125, which
includes entrance to the art and design show, fundamentals seminar,
opening session, and exhibit. Attendance at educators' program events
is also available at no extra cost to persons who register for the
SIGGRAPH '91 papers/panels program. For a SIGGRAPH '91 advance program,
including information on this educators' program, call the SIGGRAPH '91
conference management office at 312-644-6610 or send an e-mail request
to cmsba@siggraph.org. SIGGRAPH members need not call, as they will
automatically receive the advance program.curran@ferrari.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jim Curran) (05/11/91)
Hi, I posted this originally to alt.graphics.pixutils but got no response. Does anyone know if there is a Mac, Unix or MS-DOS program (Public Domain) which can convert a PICT file to a file that AutoCAD can read? I know that I could use PBM but I'm not sure if that would preserve the objects in the picture. Thanks in advance, Jim Curran curranjf@vaxd.gat.com -or- curran@rcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu