Presentation
Pioneers Featured Speaker - Don Greenberg
DescriptionComputer Graphics legend Don Greenberg is the ACM/SIGGRAPH Pioneers Featured Speaker for 2026! Greenberg's astonishingly multi-disciplinary career started in architecture, and has spanned the computer graphics revolution from its genesis in the 1960s. He has taught in the fields of architecture, engineering and computer science, while also being an elite athlete and life-long advisor to the tennis and soccer teams at Cornell. Greenberg’s teaching has covered computer-aided design in architecture as well as computer animation in the Department of Art, and he has simultaneously taught courses in computer science and technology strategy. Greenberg received the 1987 ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, its highest honor, and the 1989 NCGA Academic Award, the highest educational award given by the National Computer Graphics Association. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; Founding Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering; Fellow, Association for Computer Machinery; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the founding director of the 11-year National Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization. His talk will start with a career retrospective, then move to his current work and the issues he feels are most important to be discussed at SIGGRAPH right now in 2026!
Please note: Due to a format change, this session will no longer be presented in person. Instead, it will be delivered via live stream for the onsite audience, followed by a Q&A session.
Please note: Due to a format change, this session will no longer be presented in person. Instead, it will be delivered via live stream for the onsite audience, followed by a Q&A session.
Event Type
ACM SIGGRAPH 365
TimeTuesday, 21 July 202610:00am - 11:00am PDT
LocationRoom 404 AB
Arts & Design
Gaming & Interactive
New Technologies
Production & Animation
Research & Education
Animation
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Augmented Reality
Capture/Scanning
Computer Vision
Digital Twins
Education
Ethics and Society
Games
Generative AI
Graphics Systems Architecture
Industry Insight
Pioneers
Real-Time
Rendering
Robotics
Scientific Visualization
Simulation
Spatial Computing
Virtual Reality
Full Conference Supporter
Full Conference
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