From:     Colin Godfrey <cgodfrey@cs.umb.edu>
Subject:  [Submit] SIGGRAPH Boston Planning Meeting 8/22 6:30 pm
Date:     Friday, August 11, 2006 00:48:20

SIGGRAPH Boston Planning Meeting Aug 22 6:30 pm

We will be meeting at BNN (Bob Lamm's workplace)
in the Transportation building at the corner of
Tremont and Stuart St. (near the Wang theater).

http://www.bnntv.org/pages/direction.html


We have a substantial list of potential speakers
and events. We need to divide up responsibility for
particular dates and work on venues.

All are invited, please come and help us plan
for an exciting year of SIGGRAPH programs!




Here is a partial of list of potential speakers:

VJ Chris Korda http://whorld.org/  to talk about his realtime visualization
software

John Lester of Linden Lab pathfinderlinden.com

Andrew Borg of http://hi-beamentertainment<http://hi-beamentertainment.com/>
.com/ <http://hi-beamentertainment.com/>  also in the VJ space

I have 3 DVD's we can show. Two animation and the ET. I'm thinking
we could do one or two shorts to open the meetings some times.

I talked to Wolfram (mathmatica) and there could

be a chance of getting Stephan Wolfram at some point.

I have been talking(emailing) to Terrence Mason this years
ET chair for a couple years. He had offered to give a
presentation earlier and will one day. But I met him
briefly so we may have a full HD presentation.

[Bob] I talked to folks at both Mercury Computer Systems and Sensable
Technologies
and they are interesting. I have contact info to follow up.

Great Eastern's Brad Porter expressed interest in a presentation.

A speaker from the Boston Police spoke at the conference on
forensic 3D usage. He was connected to Great Eastern.


Potential speaker from out of town:

The ACM has a new/revitalized program of Distinguished Speakers
where they cover speaker transportation and fees.

Brad Lawrence from NASA would like to come up but we would need to
help him with travel expenses. He directs one of the teams that analyses
the high speed videos from the shuttle launch. He is chair of the
Ft Lauderdale chapter.

David Geshwind has developed some tech to convert 2d to 3d images.
He is also involved with patent technology. He's in New York so it
may not be too hard to get a visit.

Traveling Art Show: George Fiefield expressed interest in helping
us find a location for the show during the CyberArts event in the
spring. This is dependent on the schedule but worth investigating.

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