Symposium on Computational Geometry

The International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) is an academic conference in computational geometry.{{Citation

| title=Advances in Discrete and Computational Geometry: Proceedings of the 1996 AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, Discrete and Computational Geometry–Ten Years Later, July 14–18, 1996, Mount Holyoke College

| editor1-first=Bernard | editor1-last=Chazelle

| editor2-first=Jacob E. | editor2-last=Goodman | editor2-link = Jacob E. Goodman

| editor3-first=Richard | editor3-last=Pollack

| chapter=Application Challenges to Computational Geometry: CG Impact Task Force Report

| author=Chazelle, Bernard

| isbn=978-0-8218-0674-6

| year=1996

| publisher=American Mathematical Soc. | ref=ref-chazelle-1996|display-authors=etal}}. Also available as a Princeton University technical report [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/research/techreps/TR-521-96 TR-521-96]. 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).[http://makingsocg.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/a-brief-history-of-socg-and-acm/ A brief history of SOCG and ACM], Jeff Erickson (chair, SOCG steering committee), June 5, 2014; [http://makingsocg.wordpress.com/ discussion SoCG vs 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 system of publication.[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].{{dead link|date=June 2020}} Since 2015 the conference proceedings have been published by the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics instead of by the ACM.[https://dblp.org/streams/conf/compgeom Symposium on Computational Geometry], DBLP, accessed 2020-12-30. Since 2019 the conference has been organized under the auspices of the newly formed Society for Computational Geometry.[http://www.computational-geometry.org/society/Missouri-articles_of_incorporation.pdf Society for Computational Geometry Articles of Incorporation], accessed 2019-08-25.

A 2010 assessment of conference quality by the Australian Research Council listed it as "Rank A".{{citation

|url = http://www.arc.gov.au/era/key_docs10.htm

|work = Australian Research Council

|title = ERA 2010 ranked conference list

|year = 2010

|access-date = 2010-01-20

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100208230203/http://www.arc.gov.au/era/key_docs10.htm

|archive-date = 2010-02-08

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