“SIGGRAPH Bowl II”
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- SIGGRAPH Bowl II
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SIGGRAPH Bowl 2 builds on the tradition established by SIGGRAPH Bowl I at SIGGRAPH 90 to spotlight the most enthusiastic, dedicated, and determined of the SIGGRAPH graphics gurus.
In a format loosely based on College Bowl, invited teams representing leading universities, companies, and research centers test their knowledge of SIGGRAPH, computer graphics, and interactive techniques. Participants are challenged to identify quotes from important SIGGRAPH papers of the past and recognize images and animations from earlier years. Some questions will probe more trivial topics related to SIGGRAPH events, trends, personalities, and matters of historical interest within the SIGGRAPH organization and the computer graphics community.
Don’t miss this entertaining and fascinating challenge. Whether you are a veteran who has been attending SIGGRAPH or reading the Conference Proceedings for many years, or a newcomer who wants to hear about the “good old days,” this is the event for you. It’s your opportunity to root for your favorite team and expand your knowledge of SIGGRAPH trivia.
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SIGGRAPH Bowl II Organizing Committee
James F. Blinn
California Institute of Technology
Brian Blau
Autodesk, Inc.
Kellogg S. Booth
University of British Columbia
Pat Hanrahan
Princeton University
Paul Heckbert
Carnegie Mellon University
Rob Pike
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Thomas Porter
Pixar
Nick England
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SIGGRAPH Bowl II Participants
John Hart
Copper Giloth
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Story from Mary Whitton:
I was the ANSWER for a question in the second SIGBowl.
These aren’t the exact wording of the clues, but it was something similar:
1) What well-known computer graphics researcher lives in North Carolina and graduated from Duke University with a major in religion?
The red-herring answer was, of course, Evangelical Christian Fred Brooks who majored in Physics at Duke. It may have been “was born in NC” (we both were), but I think “lives in” makes a better question.
Copper hit her buzzer, hesitated a long beat or two, then answered “Mary Whitton”.
Aside: in those days, we used to joke around that there were four important people in CG who went to Duke: Fred, (1953) Turner(1969), Mary (1970), and Rob Cook(1972).There are more now, but for a long time there were just the four of us.
