We are the local group for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics).

Our mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Our purpose is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques.

We meet roughly every month, usually on the third Thursday. Our local group has been meeting for over 15 years.

http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org

Recent meetings:

Our annual presentation of the SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater, a video presentation of cutting edge computer animation from the SIGGRAPH conference, that occurs around the start of the year.

Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects
by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm

Mobile Visual Computing
by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center

Unity Technologies - Taking the pain out of game development
by David Helgason, Unity Technologies

Sirikata: Open Source Virtual Worlds
by Daniel Horn, Henrik Bennetsen. Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab

Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX Engine
by Austin Robison, NVIDIA

Graphics on the Web: Going Beyond Images and Rectangles
by Vladimir Vukicevic, Firefox

Caustic Real Time Ray Tracing
by James A. McCombe and Alex Kelley, Caustic Graphics

Hot Research in Silicon Valley
by Avi Lev Robinson-Mosher, Solomon, Boulos, Stanford Computer Graphics Lab

Photoshop CS4 Extended and 3D
by Nathan Carr, Aravind Krishnaswamy, Pete Falco, Zorana Gee - Photoshop Product Manager

Cooliris - Think beyond the browser
by Austin Shoemaker, Cooliris