Wil Wright To Keynote SIGGRAPH 2009

Wil Wright, famous for SimCity, SimEarth, the Sims, and most recently Spore, has been selected to give the Keynote address at SIGGRAPH2009 in New Orleans.

At SIGGRAPH he will speak on the expanding role of game development in influencing other industries. “His selection to give a keynote presentation this year is a perfect fit as SIGGRAPH 2009 integrates gaming as an expanded focus of the conference ” enthuses conference chair Ronen Barzel.

via Gamasutra – News – i>Spore /i>’s Wright To Keynote SIGGRAPH 2009.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .