{"51244":{"#nid":"51244","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Foley Elected Vice President of SIGGRAPH","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Foley, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, has been\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nelected to a three-year term as vice president of SIGGRAPH (Special\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInterest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), the largest\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nspecial interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSince 1974 SIGGRAPH has sponsored the annual SIGGRAPH conference, which\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nis now attended by more than 30,000 people. The 2008 SIGGRAPH\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nconference is scheduled in Los Angeles in August. This year the group\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nalso is sponsoring the first ever SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore December\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n11-13.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSIGGRAPH also sponsors other conferences around the world, and the 87\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprofessional and student chapters of the organizations around the world\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nalso hold regular events.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJim Foley, professor in the School of Interactive Computing, has been\nelected to a three-year term as vice president of SIGGRAPH (Special\nInterest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), the largest\nspecial interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:40:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:36","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-05-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}