Words of Wisdom Session (WoW)
For SCA'15 next year we plan to create a brand new session of talks: "Words of Wisdom (WoW!)" The aim is to invite experienced people who have a good overview of Computer Animation (or parts of it) and would like to share some ideas or thoughts to the community. If you have a scientific or even philosophical message to deliver which is personal, insightful, generous, original (and possibly provocative, but always benevolent and scientifically argumented), then we want to hear from you ! No format nor topic is imposed, except that your message should be somehow related to Computer Animation, it should deal with Science and Techniques, it should be respectful to others and constructive enough to be useful and inspiring for many people (students and/or faculty and/or industrials). It does not need to be broad (it's not a keynote talk) and can be focused on a specific point. It could for instance (but other categories are possible) fall in either of these categories:
- An important challenge to be taken in Computer Animation
- The story of a failure (and what to learn from it)
- A specific research topic you'll never find the time to work on and generously offer to the community
- A methodology/research direction/trend of our field you wish to celebrate, or rather criticize and improve
- An analysis of the positioning of Computer Animation w.r.t other fields
- ...
Confirmed speakers are:
- Robert Bridson, Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, Senior Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk,
- Eugene Fiume, Professor at University of Toronto,
- Doug L. James, Professor at Stanford University,
- Carol O'Sullivan, Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research,
- Dinesh K. Pai, Professor at University of British Columbia.