On this page you can find sessions organized by (members of) the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committe.
As in years past, we are also presenting student work in a competition and as submitted by faculty, including the assignments:
Please note that all times listed are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
SUNDAY August 6, 2023
| 9:00 AM | Education Booth opens | |
| 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Educators Meet & Greet Welcome to SIGGRAPH/Introduction to the Education Committee/Celebration of Student Work (SpaceTime and FSSW). | Village Theater, Rooms 501A/B |
MONDAY August 7, 2023 – Educators Day
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Supermicro + AMD “Better and Faster Solutions with Supermicro and AMD: Empowering the Evolution of Content Production” |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Epic “New Approaches to Education” |
| 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM | Epic “Sustainable Success in the Unreal World: Paving the Way for Future Artists” |
| 12:00 Noon – 12:30 PM | NVIDIA “Reimagine your Curriculum with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse” |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Pixar “Fostering Technical Talent – Pixar Undergraduate Program (PUP)” |
| 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM | Disney “Unleashing Creativity: Talent Development at Walt Disney Animation Studios” |
| 3:30 PM – 4:40 PM | Adobe “Transforming Industries and Empowering Minds: Substance 3D’s Impact in New Industries and Education” |
Birds of a Feather Session:
| 1 PM – 2 PM | BOF: Computer Graphics & Animation Research Projects – William Joel | Room 415 |
TUESDAY August 8, 2023
| 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM | SIGGRAPH 2023 Keynote (Kathryn Kleiman) and Awards Presentations including the 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Educator Award (Scott Owen) | West Hall B |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Educator’s Forum “Engaging Education Techniques and Assignments Talks” | Room 306A/B |
| 2:00 PM – 2:20 PM: Haptics for Accessible Graphics in CS1 (William Bares, Jordan Wirfs-Brock)2:20 PM – 2:40 PM: Virtual Cinematography: The Embodied Camera (C K Olsen)2:40 PM – 3:00 PM: A Software-agnostic Small Studio and Education Pipeline (Zach Wood, Anna Hales, Seth Holladay, Craig Van Dyke, Matt Minson)3:00 PM – 3:20 PM: The Seneca Animation Model: Cross-disciplinary Animation Education Program Design for a Changing Industry (Mark Jones, Sean Craig) | ||
| 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM | Educator’s Form Industry Panel “Finding Appeal: Creative Careers in Animation, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Techniques (Johannes DeYoung) | Room 306A/B |
WEDNESDAY August 9, 2023
| 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM | Educator’s Forum “Complex Problem Solving with VR/Mixed Reality Educational Experience/Identity-Centered User-Generated Content” | Room 306A/B |
| 10:45 AM – 11:05 AM: The Gateway for Non-professionals to Solve Complex Design Problems (Dorottya Esztergalos, Daniel Andrassy, Marcell Pal, Zoltan Karpati)11:05 AM – 11:25 AM: Music, Motion, and Mixed Reality: An Interdisciplinary, Problem-Based Educational Experience (Joe Giegel, Thomas Warfield, Yunn-Shan Ma, Dan Roach, Shaun Foster)11:25 AM – 11:45 AM: Identity-Centered User-Generated Content to Create Occupational Identity with Visual Computing (Tim McLaughlin, Tracey Moore, Aaron Thibault, Kim Wright, Hira Roberts, Jinsil Seo, Jason Orsatti) | ||
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | BOF: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects Alumni Reunion and Info Session – Miho Aoki | Room 512 |
Additional Birds of a Feather Session (BOF)
- Undergraduate Computer Science Curricular Guidelines (CS2023) – Susan Reiser
Date and time for this BOF will be posted as they become available.
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