Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
News "More choice for you" is the argument a Sony executive repeatedly made when questioned about digital rights management during an open-mic panel at Siggraph, a computer graphics industry conference taking place in Boston this week.
[August 2, 2006, 10:10]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
Talkback Greater choice? I guess they mean to say: greater choice within the boundaries and how we see fit. That's not choice. That's control. If you take a bird and lock it into a empty cage one can put all sorts of toys and gadgets into that cage and...
[August 4, 2006, 1:36]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
Talkback If Sony believes there should be interoperability, when is Sony's music business launching its service to exchange FairPlay protected tracks for PlaysForSure protected tracks? Or ATRAC for that matter?
[August 2, 2006, 12:35]
Siggraph Audience Takes Sony To Task On DRM
Talkback Question: Why did Singer laugh about commercials in DVD movies? Answer: Because Sony is inbedding commercials into PS3 games on Blu-ray.
[August 2, 2006, 12:27]
Visualize New Worlds With ATI's Innovative PCI Express FireGL Graphics Accelerators At SIGGRAPH 2004
White Papers A new era in workstation graphics technology is showcased in this webcast, where ATI presented their FireGL Visualization Series of graphics accelerators as part of a full program of presentations, tech talks and real-time demonstrations.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Start-up Touts Keyboard Made Of Light
News Canesta will release chipsets next year that will beam a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface, Carlo Tomasi, the company's chief technical officer, said on Tuesday at the Siggraph 2003 conference here.
[July 30, 2003, 10:19]
Portals In Space
News On Tuesday, Firmage returns from the high-tech wilderness to the Siggraph computer graphics gathering in San Diego to announce that his company, ManyOne Networks, has acquired San Francisco-based Web start-up Media Machines, a 3D technology company.
[July 29, 2003, 17:45]
Applications Of Explicit Early-Z Culling
White Papers In past years, in the SIGGRAPH Real-Time Shading course, the author has covered the details of real-time hardware shading on the R300 generation of products from ATI. Perhaps just as important as shading performance, however, is knowing when not to...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Tomorrow's Animators Train On HP Workstations At Ringling School Of Art And Design
White Papers With its computer animation students regularly winning student Academy Awards and placing work in the prestigious SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater competition, the four-year Ringling School of Art and Design is a prime recruiting ground for the country...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Graphics Technology Shows Shape Of The Universe
News Astronomical data, computer graphics and the emerging field of "conformal geometric algebra" are giving researchers a clearer picture of the shape of the universe, according to Anthony Lasenby, a professor at Cambridge University and the keynote...
[July 29, 2003, 10:28]
Developing ACM Computing Curriculum Courseware On Graphics & Visual Computing
White Papers The creation of courseware under the supervision of the ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics referees may be targeted to feel students free to create for students, for themselves and for their younger colleagues.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Computational Construction Kits For Geometric Modeling And Design
White Papers The panelists will present and demonstrate artifacts from several CCKs, most of which have not been shown previously at SIGGRAPH, CHI, UIST, or I3D. Although a current hot topic, tangible user interfaces (TUIs) have been studied for quite some time.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
MS, Netscape To Collaborate On VRML
News The announcement will be made at a press conference to be held by the VRML Consortium at SIGGRAPH 97 in early August. In an unexpected alliance between Web browser rivals, Microsoft Corp.and Netscape Communications Corp.are expected to announce...
[July 28, 1997, 10:09]
MS Eyes Talisman For 70fps 3D
News It was shown in a series of technology papers at the Siggraph computer graphics conference in New Orleans, and the only demonstration was a simulation. Microsoft is trying a second way to make workstation-class 3D graphics a reality on PCs: hardware.
[August 7, 1996, 11:18]
DreamWorks Spins Off Animation Unit
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," said Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 9:10]
Laughing From Sunday Mornings All The Way To The Bank
News No matter how much faster computers get, it takes the same amount of time to render computer animated movies, because the effects keep getting more sophisticated," says Scott Owen, a professor of computer science at the University of Georgia and...
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
US Report: Intel Slashes Price Of 300MHz Celeron
News Next week at the Siggraph trade show, it will announce specifications for standard workstation designs, called WTX. Next month, Intel will cut the list price of a 300MHz Celeron chip from about $160 (£98) to less than $100 (£61), according to sources.
[July 17, 1998, 9:34]
