The International Symposium on Smart Graphics 2003 was held on July 2–4,
2003 in Heidelberg, Germany. It was the fourth event in a series that started in
1999 as an AAAI Spring Symposium. In response to the overwhelming success of
the 1999 symposium, its organizers decided to turn it into a self-contained event
in 2000. With the support of IBM, the first two International Symposia on Smart
Graphics were held at the T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. The
2003 symposium was supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and moved
to the European Media Lab in Heidelberg, thus underlining the international
character of the Smart Graphics enterprise and its community.