SIGGRAPH 2009 is over. Tra­di­tion­ally renowned as a graph­ics geek fest, with a focus on 3D and ani­ma­tion, I was not sur­prised to hear “GPU” in every sec­ond over­heard sen­tence. But there is also the other side of SIGGRAPH: the art exhi­bi­tions, the emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies exhi­bi­tion and the freshly intro­duced infor­ma­tion aes­thet­ics pro­gram with talks, a panel and an exhi­bi­tion. I was present there with the well-formed.eigenfactor project and also had the chance to give a lit­tle talk.

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