In 2026, I reprise my role as High-Performance Graphics papers chair, joined by Markus Kettunen.
The papers deadline is 8 weeks from now. Submit your performance-oriented graphics research and present it in LA, just before SIGGRAPH (July 17-19 2026)!
www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/call-fo...
Screenshot of a paper entry: Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler (There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
Yihong Zhang, Derek Gerstmann, Andrew Adams, Maaz Bin Safeer Ahmad
Pushing Tensor Accelerators Beyond MatMul in a User-Schedulable Language
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02371
Alex Aiken’s PL class is quite good: web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/...
This might be outdated with current nanobind, but a few months ago I made this repo as a starter for an undergrad who was working on a cuda project that we wanted to be callable from Python: github.com/rootjalex/na...
Link NVIDIA libraries by adding them to nanobind_cuda_example_CUDA_DEPENDENCIES
I’m not 100% convinced these should discount Mexico, I’m just relaying what I was told, not necessarily agreeing
I asked the same question this year, and was told that it’s two parts of financial decisions: a) SIGGRAPH needs VFX attendance (and I guess there’s a belief that the VFX industry won’t go to Mexico?) and b) SIGGRAPH gets discounts at certain venues, which it also needs
Folks in the #SIGGRAPH community:
You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...
If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
If you're a prospective PhD student interested in geometry, topology, and applications in geometric/visual computing, check out the incredible Mark Gillespie, who is joining the faculty at graphics.cs.utah.edu — and looking for students!
markjgillespie.com
In light of the recent Studio Ghibli generative models, may I recommend folks read this paper:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
My team RGL is looking for new PhD students starting 2025. If you are excited about topics like inverse rendering, compilers for graphics, and physically based modeling then please join us at EPFL. Info about the lab & admission process: rgl.epfl.ch/pages/jobs (Deadline: Dec 15)
