I3D 2008 (aka the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games) will be happening the weekend before GDC this year, February 15-17, in nearby Redwood City, CA. The Call For Participation is now up at the website: October 22 is this year’s paper deadline. This is a small conference, 100 attendees or so, that offers a good opportunity to meet other people working on GPU related techniques. I3D 2007 included a number of GPGPU-related papers on interactive ray tracing, mesh simplification, and histogram generation; see Ke-Sen Huang’s summary page. (CFP I3D 2008 page)