SIGGRAPH isn't an acronym—if you must know, it stands for "Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques"; its qualifier, ACM, stands for the Association for Computing Machinery—hence, ACM SIGGRAPH. The organization was originally founded in the late 60's and its annual conference launched just a few years later, which means that this is the 40th Anniversary of the event (they've since launched a second yearly conference, in Asia, as of 2008).
As one might expect, SIGGRAPH2013 itself is chock full of the same events as any given academic conference or trade gathering, including a full itinerary of speakers, presentations, social events, etc., which collectively represent the latest breakthroughs in computer graphics and interactive techniques. However, I was interested to see that they've also produced a quick video teaser for the Technical Paper presentations, which is actually quite compelling from an outsider's perspective:
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