Assignment 2

Due: Thur, 2/10 by the end of class

Part 1 - Sources of Information

1. What is the ACM ?
2. What does the acronym "SIG" represent ?
3. List the current ACM SIGs and give the topic to which each corresponds.
   Hint: There are a lot.
4. What does IEEE stand for (pronounced I triple E) ?
5. What is IEEE Transactions ?

Part 2 - Conferences

1. Where is SIGIR holding their conference this year ?
   When is it being held ?
   How about CIKM; where and when ?
2. Where is SIGGRAPH holding their conference this year ?
   When is it being held ?
3. What is your area of interest ?
4. What's the name of its SIG ?
5. When and where us its conference this year ?

Part 3 - Prepare for Wes Griffin's presentation on Graphics

1. Read his paper "GPU Surface Curvature Estimation on Deformable Meshes"
2. What are the 5 major areas of graphics where surface curvature is useful?
   
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3. What does GPU stand for ?
   
   

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4. What makes Wes' estimation faster than what is currently being done?
   
   

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5. Compose at least two questions to ask Wes about his paper:
   
   

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