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• Humans Meet Their Robot Overlords At SIGGRAPH
  Wednesday 13 August 2008 – 12:10
  Los Angeles (CA) - Balancing on two wheels, the shiny UBot-5 scurries around the Los Angeles Convention Center like it owns the place.
• Siggraph Attendees Drool Over Nvidia's Quadro Plex
  Thursday 14 August 2008 – 10:20
  Los Angeles (CA) - You can never have too much storage, bandwidth or computing power - and this is especially true if you're a 3d animator.
• THG Siggraph report - Day 1
  Thursday 4 August 2005 – 07:46
  Every year, graphics professionals, video game designers and movie moguls meet for the Siggraph convention. The convention is a mix of "pie in the sky" demonstrations of future technologies and costly movie making hardware and software. Attendees, upon seeing the X-Wing model in the Los Angeles Convention Center lobby, get a sense of Siggraph's theme - creating a new reality from imagination.
• AET at Siggraph
  Friday 5 August 2005 – 07:19
  Tom's Hardware Guide has established an ongoing relationship with Academy of Entertainment and Technology (AET) at the Santa Monica College in the Los Angeles area. Brant Looney and Tim Ryan of AET's tech support staff kept a diary of what they saw at Siggraph and products they would love to get their hands on for use in AET's programs.
• Siggraph confab spotlights keyboard
  Wednesday 30 July 2003 – 03:26
  Canesta will release chipsets next year that will beam a fully functional keyboard onto a flat surface, Carlo Tomasi, the company's chief technical officer, said on Tuesday at the Siggraph 2003 conference.

• Siggraph 2003: AMD64 Finally Makes Sense*
  Wednesday 30 July 2003 – 06:00
  Yup, AMD64 might just have found a niche where Intel can't touch it: we see the light. And, at the mother of all graphics conventions academics, artists, and developers rub shoulders and dream of holography, 3D babes, and virtual food? We bring you our annual report from Siggraphh, at the heart of computer graphics.
• Siggraph 1999: Nvidia and SGI*
  Friday 13 August 1999 – 06:00
  Siggraph used to be the place where the super-nerds of computer graphics would get to meet and schmooze in a setting that was still intimate enough to generate real discussions about technology
• Siggraph 2002: Nvidia vs. World*
  Friday 2 August 2002 – 06:00
  The NV3x propoganda wars are backfiring on Nvidia, and it all started at Siggraph. Is ATI getting aggressive? Ooooh, Don King should be promoting this one on Pay Per View. When will the NV3x tape out, and does anybody care? Nvidia took on the world, and the world is biting back. Is this just more hype? Gonzo going ons in San Antonio in Graphics Wars: Episode CMXLVII.
• Siggraph 2004 Brings Sci-Fi Imagery Closer to Reality*
  Friday 13 August 2004 – 06:00
  There was more than enough eye candy at this week's annual Siggraph computer graphics and animation convention in Los Angeles. Most of the big surprises came from small vendors, while heavy hitter graphics cards makers ATi and NVIDIA were also on hand to show off their finest very high-end hardware.