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.
[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".