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Volume 6. Issue 2. Summer 2008

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SSIT e-Newsletter

Volume 6. Issue 2. Summer 2008

2008 Summer Board of Governors Meeting

The summer board of governors meeting was held at the University of New Brunswick on June 28. At the meeting a resolution was passed honoring Brian O’Connell, who passed away in May. (see www.ieeessit.org) The complete minutes of the meeting can be found at http://chortle.ccsu.edu/BOG/BOGindex.html.

SSIT Conferences

ISTAS 2009

The 2009 International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 2009) will be held in Phoenix, AZ May 18-20 in conjunction with the International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (ISEE 2009). A call for papers will be available in the near future.

Special Issues

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Special Issue on Biometric Instrumentation and Measurement. This special issue is focused on publishing original papers that address instrumentation and measurement aspects of the design, implementation and applications of biometrics. The detailed call for papers is available at http://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/TIM-SpecialIssueBiometricIMCFP.pdf. The submission period is February 15 - March 1, 2009. Notification of final acceptance is expected by June 30, 2009 and publication in December 2009.

IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on Biometrics Systems. This special issue is directed to collect original papers that address any aspect of the design, implementation and application of biometrics systems, by focusing on a system-level perspective. The detailed call for papers is available at http://www.dti.unimi.it/~piuri/pages/ISJ-SpecialIssueBiometricsSystemsCFP.pdf. The submission deadline is January 15, 2009. Acceptance notification is expected by April 15, 2009 and publication in August 2009.

Questions, comments, and items of interest should be directed to the newsletter editor: Karl Perusich, Ph.D., at perusich@sbcglobal.net.

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