West Hall B
Wednesday, 6 August  8:15 am to 9:45 am

Bran Ferren, Executive Vice President for Creative Technology and Research & Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, delivers the SIGGRAPH 97 keynote address. As head of the Creative Technology Group at WDI, Ferren manages a resource for new technology and creative input for the entire company. In addition to running this group, he has been involved in many new theme park projects, including at Walt Disney World: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, The extra TERRORestrial Alien Encounter, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, Innovension, the upcoming new General Motors attraction at EPCOT, and at Disneyland: the Indiana Jones Adventure.

Immediately before the keynote, SIGGRAPH presents two awards:

Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz receives the 1997 Computer Graphics Achievement Award for his work pertaining to modeling and visualizing biological structures.

James Foley receives the 1997 Steven A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions for his strong and sustained leadership in computer graphics education and research, and for his dedication to the profession.