Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics

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Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (VGTC)Type| Professional Organization

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Focus| Visualization
Computer graphics
Virtual reality
Origins| IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS)

Area served

| Worldwide
Method| Conferences, Publications, and Industry standards, Certification and training

Key people

| Claudio Silva (Current Chair)
Website| www.vgtc.org

The Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (VGTC) is a constituency of IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) that oversees various technical activities related to visualization, computer graphics, virtual and augmented reality, and interaction..[1] VGTC is one of the 26 technical committees/councils of IEEE-CS that covers various specializations of computer science and computer engineering.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Membership
* 1.1 Visualization Pioneers Group
* 2 Conferences
* 2.1 IEEE Visualization
* 2.2 IEEE Virtual Reality
* 2.3 Sponsored symposia
* 3 Publications
* 4 Awards
* 4.1 Visualization Technical Achievement Awards
* 4.2 Virtual and Augmented Reality Technical Achievement Awards
* 4.3 IEEE Visualization Academy
* 5 Leadership
* 5.1 Executive Committee
* 5.2 Directors
* 6 References

## Membership

Membership in VGTC is open and free of charge to researchers, practitioners and students. Membership in IEEE or the IEEE Computer Society is not required for membership, and members are eligible to serve in most positions including chairing annual conferences or serving on the executive committee.[3] Members are also able to nominate others for technical awards.

### Visualization Pioneers Group

The Visualization Pioneers Group is open to members after 20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization. Members commit to serving the visualization community, be it through conference or journal paper reviews, financial support for the mentoring program, or serving as a mentor. Members also pay USD $50 in dues per year.[4]

## Conferences

The VGTC has two flagship annual conferences. The annual executive committee meeting is held during the same week as IEEE Visualization.

### IEEE Visualization

Also known, as VIS, the IEEE Visualization conference is considered one of the top-tier venues for presenting visualization research.[5]

IEEE VIS is a combination of conferences and symposia:

* IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis - formerly Symposium on Information Visualization)
* IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology Conference (VAST - formerly Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology)
* IEEE Scientific Visualization Conference (SciVis - formerly Vis)
* IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization Symposium (LDAV)

Past conferences:

* 2019: Vancouver , Canada
* 2018: Berlin, Germany
* 2017: Phoenix, Arizona
* 2016: Baltimore, Maryland
* 2015: Chicago, Illinois,
* 2014: Paris, France
* 2013: Atlanta, Georgia
* 2012: Seattle, Washington
* 2011: Providence, Rhode Island
* 2010: Salt Lake City, Utah
* 2009: Atlantic City, New Jersey
* 2008: Columbus, Ohio
* 2007: Sacramento, California
* 2006: Baltimore, Maryland
* 2005: Minneapolis, Minnesota
* 2004: Austin, Texas
* 2003: Seattle, Washington
* 2002: Boston, Massachusetts
* 2001: San Diego, California
* 2000: Salt Lake City, Utah
* 1999: San Francisco, California
* 1998: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
* 1997: Phoenix, Arizona
* 1996: San Francisco, California

Future conferences:

* 2020: Salt Lake City, Utah
* 2021: New Orleans, Louisiana

### IEEE Virtual Reality

Past conferences:

* 2019: Osaka, Japan
* 2018: Berlin, Germany [6]
* 2017: Los Angeles, California
* 2016: Greenville, South Carolina
* 2015: Arles, Camargue-Provence, France
* 2014: Minneapolis, Minnesota
* 2013: Orlando, Florida, United States
* 2012: Orange County, California
* 2011: Singapore

Future conferences:

* 2020: Atlanta, Georgia

### Sponsored symposia

The VGTC also sponsors other related IEEE symposia:

* IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI now combined with IEEE VR)
* EG/IEEE Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis - formerly VisSym)
* International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
* IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis - formerly APVIS)
* BioVis

## Publications

The IEEE VGTC has run special issues of Computer and IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, and is the sponsor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).[7]

## Awards

The IEEE VGTC grants awards for individuals who have made significant contributions to the community through their research and volunteer efforts. The Technical Achievement Awards are presented during the opening sessions of the annual Visualization and Virtual Reality conferences.[8] Members who have given outstanding service are routinely awarded with the IEEE Certificate of Appreciation and IEEE Meritorious Service Awards. Graduate student members are eligible for the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award presented through the Visualization Pioneers Group annually at the IEEE VIS conference.[9]

### Visualization Technical Achievement Awards

* 2019
* Career: Thomas Ertl
* Technical Achievement: Eduard Gröller

* 2018
* Career: Sheelagh Carpendale
* Technical Achievement: Anders Ynnerman

* 2017
* Career: Charles D. Hansen
* Technical Achievement: Jeffrey Heer

* 2016
* Career: John C. Dill
* Technical Achievement: David S. Ebert

* 2015
* Career: Markus Gross
* Technical Achievement: Tamara Munzner

* 2014
* Career: Kenneth Joy
* Technical Achievement: Claudio T. Silva

* 2013
* Career: Gregory M. Nielson
* Technical Achievement: Kwan-Liu Ma

* 2012
* Career: Ben Shneiderman
* Technical Achievement: John Stasko

* 2011
* Career: Frits Post
* Technical Achievement: Daniel A. Keim

* 2010
* Career: Christopher R. Johnson
* Technical Achievement: Hanspeter Pfister

* 2009
* Career: Hans Hagen
* Technical Achievement: Jock D. Mackinlay

* 2008
* Career: Lawrence J. Rosenblum
* Technical Achievement: David Laidlaw

* 2007
* Career: Stuart Card
* Technical Achievement: Jarke van Wijk

* 2006
* Career: Pat Hanrahan
* Technical Achievement: Thomas Ertl

* 2005
* Career: Arie Kaufman
* Technical Achievement: Charles D. Hansen

* 2004
* Career: Bill Lorensen
* Technical Achievement: Amitabh Varshney

### Virtual and Augmented Reality Technical Achievement Awards

* 2019
* Career: Mark Billinghurst
* Technical Achievement: Anatole Lécuyer

* 2018
* Career: Mark Bolas
* Technical Achievement: Gregory Welch

* 2017
* Career: Grigore Burdea
* Technical Achievement: Michael Zyda

* 2016
* Career: Thomas A. Furness III
* Technical Achievement: Anthony Steed

* 2015
* Career: Michitaka Hirose
* Technical Achievement: Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov, and Palmer Luckey

* 2014
* Career: Steven K. Feiner
* Technical Achievement: Doug Bowman

* 2013
* Career: Henry Fuchs
* Technical Achievement: Mark Billinghurst

* 2012
* Career: Lawrence J. Rosenblum
* Technical Achievement: Dieter Schmalstieg

* 2010
* Career: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
* Technical Achievement: Ming C. Lin

* 2009
* Career: Jaron Lanier
* Technical Achievement: Hirokazu Kato

* 2008
* Career: Bowen Loftin
* Technical Achievement: Bernd Fröhlich

* 2007
* Career: Susumu Tachi
* Technical Achievement: Carolina Cruz-Neira

* 2006
* Career: Larry F. Hodges
* Technical Achievement: Kay Stanney

* 2005
* Career: Mel Slater
* Technical Achievement: Mark Bolas

### IEEE Visualization Academy

The IEEE Visualization Academy (or in short Vis Academy) was established in 2018 by the IEEE VGTC Executive Committee, with the inaugural "class" of inductees to include all the Visualization Career Awardees and all the Visualization Technical Achievement Awardees, from 2004 to 2019, for a total of 30 unique inductees. Induction into the Vis Academy is the highest and most prestigious honor in the field of visualization.

The Vis Academy is a prestigious academy, the "visualization technology hall of fame" or the "visualization fellows assembly", and will highlight the accomplishments of the research leaders of the field of visualization that will indirectly underscore the accomplishments of the entire field. In addition to being an honorary academy, the academy will be called upon to provide technical leadership, mentoring and fostering new talents, and other community services, as necessary.

Members include: Stuart Card, Sheelagh Carpendale, John C. Dill, David S. Ebert, Thomas Ertl, Eduard Gröller, Markus Gross, Hans Hagen, Pat Hanrahan, Charles Hansen, Jeffrey Heer, Christopher R. Johnson, Ken Joy, Arie E. Kaufman, Daniel Keim, David Laidlaw, Kwan-Liu Ma, Bill Lorensen, Jock Mackinlay, Tamara Munzner, Gregory Nielson, Hanspeter Pfister, Frits Post, Lawrence Rosenblum, Ben Shneiderman, Claudio Silva, John Stasko, Amitabh Varshney, J.J. van Wijk, Anders Ynnerman

## Leadership

### Executive Committee

* Chair - James Ahrens, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Vice Chair - Miriah Meyer, University of Utah
* Vice Chair for Conferences - Aditi Majumder, University of California, Irvine

### Directors

* Chair for Technical Awards Committee for Virtual Reality - Henry Fuchs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* Chair for Technical Awards Committee for Visualization; IEEE Service Awards Chair for ISMAR, Visualization, and Virtual Reality - Holly Rushimeyer, Yale University
* Claudio Silva, New York University
* Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University
* Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University
* Amitabh Varshney, University of Maryland, College Park
* Klaus Mueller, Stony Brook University

## References

1. ↑ IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee, http://www.vgtc.org/about-us
2. ↑ Technical Committees & Councils, IEEE-CS, http://www.computer.org/web/tandc/technical-committees
3. ↑ "Membership" (in en). http://www.vgtc.org/membership. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
4. ↑ "IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group" (in en). IEEE. http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
5. ↑ Kosara, Robert (11 November 2013). "A Guide to the Quality of Different Visualization Venues". https://eagereyes.org/blog/2013/a-guide-to-the-quality-of-different-visualization-venues.
6. ↑ "IEEE Virtual Reality 2018, Germany". http://www.ieeevr.org/2018/.
7. ↑ "Visualization and Graphics, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on" (in en-us). https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=CMYVG731. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
8. ↑ "VGTC Awards" (in en). http://www.vgtc.org/about-us/vgtc-awards. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
9. ↑ "The IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award" (in en). IEEE. http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/bestthesis/. Retrieved 5 April 2017.

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