Symposium on Computational Geometry explained

The International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) is an academic conference in computational geometry.[1] Today its acronym is pronounced "sausage." It was founded in 1985, with the program committee consisting of David Dobkin, Joseph O'Rourke, Franco Preparata, and Godfried Toussaint; O'Rourke was the conference chair. The symposium was originally sponsored by the SIGACT and SIGGRAPH Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[2] It dissociated from the ACM in 2014, motivated by the difficulties of organizing ACM conferences outside the United States and by the possibility of turning to an open-access system of publication.[3] Since 2015 the conference proceedings have been published by the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics instead of by the ACM.[4] Since 2019 the conference has been organized under the auspices of the newly formed Society for Computational Geometry.[5]

A 2010 assessment of conference quality by the Australian Research Council listed it as "Rank A".[6]

Notes and References

  1. . Also available as a Princeton University technical report TR-521-96.
  2. http://makingsocg.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/a-brief-history-of-socg-and-acm/ A brief history of SOCG and ACM
  3. https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/arc/compgeom-announce/2014-07/msg00003.html Posting by Jeff Erickson, chair of the SoCG steering committee, July 16, 2014
  4. https://dblp.org/streams/conf/compgeom Symposium on Computational Geometry
  5. http://www.computational-geometry.org/society/Missouri-articles_of_incorporation.pdf Society for Computational Geometry Articles of Incorporation
  6. .