The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing.
This year, five awards will be presented during a special presentation at SIGGRAPH prior to the keynote on Monday, August 10.
The Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics: Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This award, presented during odd-numbered years, recognizes long-term creative impact on the field of computer graphics through a personal commitment over an extended period of time.
The Steven Anson Coons Award has been presented to: Ivan E. Sutherland, Pierre B zier, Donald P. Greenberg, David C. Evans, Andries van Dam, Edwin Catmull, Jose Encarna o, James D. Foley, James F. Blinn, Lance Williams, Pat Hanrahan, Tomoyuki Nishita, Nelson Max, Rob Cook, Jim Kajiya, and Turner Whitted.
The Computer Graphics Achievement Award: Steve Marschner, Cornell University
The Computer Graphics Achievement award is given each year to recognize an individual for an outstanding achievement in computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Past recipients of the Computer Graphics Achievement Award are: James F. Blinn, James H. Clark, Loren Carpenter, Turner Whitted, Robert L. Cook, Alan H. Barr, John E. Warnock, Richard Shoup, Alvy Ray Smith, James T. Kajiya, Henry Fuchs, Patrick Hanrahan, Kenneth E. Torrance, Kurt Akeley, Marc Levoy, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Michael F. Cohen, Anthony D. DeRose, David Salesin, Andy Witkin, David Kirk, Peter Schr der, Hugues Hoppe, Jos Stam, Thomas W. Sederberg, Greg Ward, Ken Perlin, Michael Kass, Jessica Hodgins, Richard Szeliski, Greg Turk, Holly Rushmeier, and Thomas Funkhouser.
The Significant New Researcher Award: Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research
The Significant New Researcher Award is awarded annually to a researcher who has made a recent significant contribution to the field of computer graphics and is new to the field. The intent is to recognize people who, though early in their careers, have already made a notable contribution.
The Significant New Researcher Award has been presented to Paul Debevec, Steven J. Gortler, Mathieu Desbrun, Zoran Popovi , Ronald Fedkiw, Takeo Igarashi, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Maneesh Agrawala, Wojciech Matusik, Alexei Efros, Olga Sorkine, Karen Liu, Niloy Mitra, and Noah Snavely.
The Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art: Lillian Schwartz, Independent Artist
The Distinguished Artist Award is awarded annually to an artist who has created a substantial and important body of work that significantly advances aesthetic content in the field of digital art.
This award was presented for the first time in 2009. The award has been presented to Roman Verostko, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, Charles Csuri, Jean-Pierre H bert, Manfred Mohr, and Harold Cohen.
ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award: Mike Bailey, Oregon State University
This award, presented for the first time at SIGGRAPH 98, is given annually to recognize outstanding service to ACM SIGGRAPH by a volunteer. It recognizes persons who have given extraordinary service to ACM SIGGRAPH, both in the trenches and in positions of more responsibility or visibility, over a significant period of time.
The ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award has been presented to Maxine Brown, Thomas DeFanti, Copper Frances Giloth, Bertram Herzog, Judith R. Brown, Steve Cunningham, John M. Fujii, Stephen Spencer, Kellogg S. Booth, David Kasik, Mary Whitton, and Scott Lang.
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The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the computer graphics community through their research, teaching, service, or writing. 
