brabant@ucsd.edu (Ed Brabant) (03/20/91)
SIGGRAPH '91 Workshops Call for Participation Workshop Overview Workshops at the annual SIGGRAPH conference provide one- or two-day forums for structured, but lively interchange of ideas among a small group of people about issues important to the computer graphics community. Issues may range from theoretical problems, to emerging standards, to specialized applications areas. Though the workshops themselves are by definition able to accomodate a relatively small number of participants, the results of the workshop discussions are reported to other conference attendees through presentation and interaction at a special interest group session or panel, and to the graphics community at large in "Computer Graphics", published by the Association for Computing Machinery. You are invited to submit a position paper on the workshop topic listed below to the workshop organizer by May 17, 1991. Guidelines for presenting the position papers, and a detailed description on how the workshops are structured can be obtained from the organizers, or from the workshop committee chair, also listed below. Please review these guidelines carefully before submitting position papers. The organizers will then select up to 25 participants for the workshop from the papers submitted. SIGGRAPH '91 will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from Sunday, July 28, through Friday, August 2, 1991 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The SIGGRAPH '91 workshops committee and organizers look forward to receiving your position paper for consideration. SIGGRAPH '91 Workshop Chair: Ed Brabant Megatek Corporation 9645 Scranton Rd. San Diego, 92121 office: 619-455-5590 x2639 fax: 619-453-7603 email: brabant@megatek.uunet ucsd!megatek!brabant Workshop #2 - Call for Participation Computer Graphics in the Network Environment 28-29 July 1991 Because of current network limitations, many distributed computer graphics applications, designed for or adapted to existing networks, compromise function or interactivity. The premise of this workshop is that future distributed application paradigms and the deployment of new network technologies are closely connected, and both should be designed with this relationship in mind. Participants will discuss current models of distributed computer graphics/video for local and wide-area networks and their limitations, and models for future applications based on high bandwidth networks. Other topics are likely to include data models, future requirements for network availability and reliability, new network protocols, and developments in hardware technologies for network protocol handling, image compression, and HDTV. For further information on how to participate, or to submit a position paper, contact the workshop organizer: David Oliver Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and Graphics 1535 Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 phone: 413-545-1726 fax: 413-545-1801 email: oliver@smectos.gang.umass.edu