sokolove@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Deborah Sokolove) (03/15/91)
ACM-SIGGRAPH Conference Grants for Educators Program Goals: The Conference Grants program is intended to expand and strengthen computer graphics education in fine arts, business, computer science, design, education, engineering, or other disciplines. The program is specifically aimed at supporting new, broadened, or upgraded courses, sequences, or laboratory developments. For 1991, the program continues to cover two types of grants: the regular grants that we have given since 1986, and a new program of grants for historically minority institutions, which was instituted in 1989. The regular grant program will support educators who are prepared, motivated, and have institutional support to start or expand successful computer graphics courses, programs or labs, or to update courses, programs, or labs which have become out of date. We welcome a proposal from anyone who feels that he or she meets this description. The 1991 program will award up to 25 of these grants. The historically minority institution grants will support qualified educators in traditionally minority institutions who want to develop computer graphics programs in any discipline. The 1991 program anticipates awarding a limited number of grants in this area, based on the number of proposals received. Grant Benefits: Both grant programs will provide several resources to help educators begin, expand, or update computer graphics courses or programs. The regular grants provide benefits for one person, including: (1) Registration costs for two days of courses at SIGGRAPH '91 in Las Vegas, July 29-30, as well as the course reception. A copy of the course titles for 1990 is attached for your general information. Any courses you think will contribute to your program may be chosen, though we do not yet know the courses which will be offered in 1991. (2) Registration for the technical sessions at SIGGRAPH '91, July 31-August 2, including conference proceedings and state-of-the-art papers and panel discussions, as well as the technical session reception. (3) A breakfast meeting at the beginning of the week to get an orientation to the courses and conference, and an informal meeting after the courses, where grantees can meet each other and past years' grantees and share their experiences with SIGGRAPH Executive and Education Committee members. (4) SIGGRAPH materials that can be used in the grantees' home courses. This will include slide sets and a complete set of 1991 course notes. Historically minority institution grants will provide registrations and meetings as above for up to two faculty or staff members with the goal of assisting in forming a critical mass of knowledge and enthusiasm on which to build a program. These grants will also provide one set of materials, as described above, as well as half the travel and lodging costs for the grantees with the expectation that the grantee institution will fund the rest of the travel. How to Propose: In order to be considered for a grant, a formal proposal must be prepared and five copies sent by regular mail, not e-mail, postmarked by April 7, 1991, to Deborah Sokolove Department of Art and Art History George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 The proposal should be no more than 5 pages long and must contain three specific items: (1) Cover Letter: A cover sheet with the name, address, and phone numbers of the proposer, signatures of the proposer and the appropriate department chair or dean, a statement that the signers have read and support all the proposer's statements, and a statement that the necessary travel funds will be available to the proposer if the grant is awarded. The letter must include the proposer's home and office addresses and phone numbers because of the date of the award notification. (2) A statement of the proposer's plans, background, and environment, and a description of the available equipment for graphics. In more detail, these parts should describe % Environment: the current graphics courses or programs in the proposer's institution and department, % Plans: what the proposer specifically plans to do in computer graphics education and how these plans relate to the current program in his or her discipline, and if the proposer has received an earlier Conference Grant, how the current plans relate to the earlier work, % Current Graphics Resources: what graphics resources are now available at the proposer's institution, including equipment, software and persons who are available to help the proposer implement the plans above, % Experience: what experience the proposer brings to the planned development. For example, this can include computer experience or design expertise. This may be in the form of a selected resume. % Course Selection: what SIGGRAPH courses the proposer plans to take (based on the 1990 courses) and, if it is not obvious, the relation of the courses to the plans above, (3) Institutional Commitment: supporting information from department chairs or deans to show how the proposed plans are supported by the institution. This should include the relation of proposed courses, if any, to the standard curriculum. It should also describe commitments to acquire equipment if it is not now available, or to share existing equipment now used by other disciplines or courses. It might expand on the cover letter statement that travel support will be available for the conference. In general, any support from the home institution toward the planned development should be described here. (4) Minority Institutions: In addition to the information above, these proposals must name the faculty or staff member(s) to receive the award and must include information for them. In addition, the proposal must include background information on the program which is to make the graphics developments. This will go beyond the routine information requested above to include the rationale for beginning a graphics program and a statement of the long-range goals for the program. We encourage these institutions to form a relationship with a nearby institution having strong computer graphics experience in order to have additional expertise available while developing their programs; such a relationship will be a positive point in proposals for these grants. Evaluating Proposals: All proposals will be evaluated by computer graphics educators who, between them, teach graphics to artists, computer scientists, educators, engineers, and nontechnical persons. At least one evaluator will have experience working with minority institutions. Evaluations will not discriminate between proposals from different disciplines, levels, or geographic locations. Both regular and historically minority program initiation proposals will be evaluated based on: % the quality and appropriateness of the planned development, % the appropriateness of the projected SIGGRAPH courses to the development, % the preparation of the proposer(s) to do the development, and % the support of the home institution for the development. Evaluators will be asked to ignore excess materials, such as program catalogs, flyers, or overlong resumes, so please don't send them. Awards will be announced by May 31, 1991. Grantees will be asked to accept the grant formally and to verify their attendance at that time, and arrangements will be made for registration following their acceptance. All proposers will be notified of the decision on their proposal, but detailed evaluation information will not be available. SIGGRAPH '90 Course List The following courses were offered at SIGGRAPH '90. Each was a full day long, and courses run over two days. While we do not know what courses will be offered in 1991, you should select three or four courses from this list in a rough priority order for your proposal with the expectation that you will choose similar courses from those actually offered at SIGGRAPH '90. Each course is listed by title with the course organizer's name, and includes an indication of the course level: beginning (B), intermediate (I), or advanced (A). Fundamentals and Overview of Computer Graphics, Olin Lathrop, [B} Color and Computer Graphics, Aaron Marcus, [B] Introduction to Hypertext and Hypermedia, Jakob Nielsen, [B] An Artistic Introduction to Computer Animations, Maria Palazzi, [B] Generation of Three-dimensional Data for Computer Image Synthesis, Wayne E. Carlson & Richard E. Parent, [B] Emerging User-Interface Media: Potentials and Challenges, Chris Schmandt, [B] Human Figure Animation: Approaches and Applications, Tom Calvert, [I] PHIGS PLUS: Advanced Three-Dimensional Graphics with a Standard Application Programmer Interface, Edy Henderson, [I] Character Animation by Computer, Bill Kroyer, [I] Volume Visualization Algorithms and Architecture, Marc Levoy, [I] Solid Modeling: Architectures, Mathematics, and Algorithms, James R. Miller, [I] Curve and Surface Design: From Geometry to Applications, Gregory M. Nielson, [I] The Computer Graphics Interface (CGI) Q The Next International Graphics Standard, Theodore N. Reed, [I] Fractals: Analysis and Modeling, Dietmar Saupe, [I] Introduction to Window Management, Jonathan E. Steinhart, [I] Computer Graphics in Visual Effects, Scott E. Anderson & Jonathan P. Luskin, [I] The RenderMan Interface and Shading Language, Tony Apodaca, [I] X3D-PEX (PEX): Three-Dimensional Graphics in a Distributed Window Systems, Marty Hess, [I] The PostScript Page Description Language, Leo Hourvitz, [I] Radiosity, Donald P. Greenberg, [I] Video Technology for Computer Graphics, Dean Winkler, [I] Modeling and Animating with Implicit Surfaces, Brian Wyvill & Jules Bloomenthal, [I] Advanced Topics in Ray Tracing, Andrew Glassner, [A] Unifying Parametric and Implicit Surface Representations for Computer Graphics, Brian A. Barsky, [A] State of the Art in Facial Animation, Frederic I. Parke, [A] State of the Art in Data Visualization, Mark Smith, [A] Parallel Algorithms and Architectures for 3D Image Generation, Scott Whitman, [A] For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact: Deborah Sokolove Department of Art and Art History George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030 (703)764-6721 sokolove@gmuvax2.gmu.edu