The International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) is an
academic conference
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in
computational geometry. 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
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Special Interest Groups of the
Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM). 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
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system of publication. Since 2015 the conference proceedings have been published by the
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
Dagstuhl is a computer science research center in Germany, located in and named after a district of the town of Wadern, Merzig-Wadern, Saarland.
Location
Following the model of the mathematical center at Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwo ...
instead of by the ACM. Since 2019 the conference has been organized under the auspices of the newly formed Society for Computational Geometry.
A 2010 assessment of conference quality by the Australian Research Council listed it as "Rank A".
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Recurring events established in 1985
Mathematics conferences
Theoretical computer science conferences
Computational geometry
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
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