siggraph@pioneer.UUCP (06/06/87)
Joint Golden Gate Chapter ACM and Bay Area ACM/SIGGRAPH meeting
HISTORY OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS
A Biased Personal View
Alvy Ray Smith
Vice President
Pixar
Thursday June 18
Exploratorium, McBean Theater
3601 Lyon Street, SF
6:00..7:00 Cocktails and Hors D'oeuvres
7:00..8:00 Speaker & Q/A
Please call (415)-339-3024 by June 11 if you would like to make
reservations (recommended) for hors d'oeuvres ($10).
ABSTRACT - The dark ages of black-and-white lines at NYU. How
the University of Utah did it with no equipment. How Xerox PARC
kissed off color graphics but got an Emmy anyway. How Alex
Schure met Ivan Sutherland and begat NYIT. How Evans & Sutherland
succeeded & failed. How Siggraph grew up. The sad story of
standards. The amazing stories of NYIT: Los Ricos National
Forest, "make Tubby dance", Holloway house. Who said, "Our goal
is to speed up time, eventually deleting it"? David Em unmasked
(the M is revealed). Jim Blinn dances. Video art vs computer
graphics. How Lucasfilm happened. Star Trek. Star Wars. Ravi
Shankar. Steven Spielberg. Sylvester Stallone. Special effects.
Do you remember III, DP, Abel, Omnibus, Digital Effects,
MAGI? What Pixar means. How it feels to spin off. Luxo Lamps
and Academy Awards. How is JCGL related to CGL? The Japanese
and Europeans. How the Texas Panhandle contributed to graphics.
A glimpse at the future. And lots, lots more.