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Over 400 lectures are available from more than 125 speakers with topics covering Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Mobile Computing, and dozens more.
Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Speaker Marie-Paule Cani
Marie-Paule Cani is a Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique. She has contributed to several high-level models for shapes and motion such as implicit surfaces, multi-resolution physically-based animation methods and hybrid representations for real-time natural scenes. She has received many honors from Eurographics and other institutions, and has been the President of Eurographics since 2017. Marie-Paule was the Technical Paper Chair of SIGGRAPH 2017, and has served on the program committees of all major conferences in computer graphics, as well as on the Editorial Boards of major graphic journals.

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- Stephen Brewster Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Michael Bronstein Lugano, Switzerland
- Stefan Bruckner Bergen, Norway
- Erik Brunvand UT, United States
- Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari CT, United States
- Margaret Burnett Corvallis, OR, United States
- Marie-Paule Cani Paris Saclay, France
- Sharma Chakravarthy Bedford, TX, United States
- Polo Chau Atlanta, GA, United States
- Geeta Chauhan Santa Clara, CA, United States
- Abbas Cheddad Karlskrona, Sweden
- Deming Chen Urbana, IL, United States
- Li Chen Washington, DC, United States
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- Rik Das Ranchi, India
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- George Drettakis Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Henry Duh Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Schahram Dustdar Vienna, Austria
- Ashutosh Dutta Laurel, MD, United States
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- Donald Gotterbarn Johnson City, TN, United States
- Eduard Gröller Vienna, Austria
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- Diego Gutierrez Zaragoza, Spain
- Gururaj H L Mysuru, India
- Laura M Haas San Jose, CA, United States
- Faraz Hasan Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Shiyan Hu Southampton, United Kingdom
- Rasheed Hussain Innopolis, Russian Federation
- Panos Ipeirotis New York, NY, United States
- Seiji Isotani Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil
- Celestine Iwendi Uppsala, Sweden
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- Jim Jansen Doha, Qatar
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- Ming Xiao Stockholm, Sweden
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