Other events at the conference include educational courses and panel discussions on recent topics in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

[7] The papers accepted for presentation at SIGGRAPH are printed since 2003 in a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Graphics journal.

The most prestigious is the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics.

The SIGGRAPH conference experienced significant growth starting in the 1970s, peaking around the turn of the century.

SIGGRAPH sponsored a number of conferences related to the field of computer graphics, including the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation,[48] the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (formerly known as Motion in Games).