SIGGRAPH Selects Carnegie Mellon’s Don Marinelli as a Keynote Speaker

By DE Editors

ACM SIGGRAPH has selected Don Marinelli, a Carnegie Mellon scholar and educator, to give one of its keynote presentations at SIGGRAPH,  the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, which will be held July 25-29 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Marinelli is the executive producer of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center, a joint initiative between the College of Fine Arts and the School of Computer Science, where technologists and non-technologists work together on projects that produce installations intended to entertain, inform, inspire, or otherwise affect an audience, guest, player,  or participant.

“With each passing year, the boundary between artists,  scientists, and graphic experts becomes more blurred,” says Terrence Masson, SIGGRAPH 2010 conference chair from Northeastern University. “To truly have the highest quality final product, whether that is a film or an interactive installation, collaborators from different fields must understand each other. Marinelli is an expert at bridging these different disciplines for the best end result.  In essence, this is an underlying theme throughout SIGGRAPH’s history and his insights will be enlightening to all working professionals and students.” 

For more information, visit the SIGGRAPH site.

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