Graphics-Technology Expert David Kirk and Award-winning Human-Computer Interaction Pioneer Jun Rekimoto to speak at the highly anticipated 2nd ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 will be held in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan from 16-19 December. Amongst the multi-disciplinary programs, these two featured speakers at the conference are just one of the many highlights for the 8,000 attendees expected to gather in this annual digital media event.

David Kirk, a leading scientist and multi-award winner in the field of graphic-technology will speak on “The Power of Heterogeneous Computing”, reviewing the evolution of GPU technology. Modern GPUs are revolutionizing scientific visualization, visual effects and many other applications in computer graphics. They are accelerating routine processes and revealing new possibilities that were only futuristic speculation a few years ago.

The traditional graphics processors used to be special-purpose, hardwired devices that support a limited range of graphics applications. Now they are replaced by fully programmable, massively parallel, floating-point processors that accelerate many applications by two folds of magnitude or more. Through his featured talk, Kirk will also share his vision how current work in academic and industrial labs around the world will be applied to future generations of computer graphics systems.

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