Subject: Newsletter TC11/2001#02

Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:14:27 +0100

To: tc-11@baseline.cogsci.kun.nl







Dear TC-11 researcher,



we have a sad message, and three announcements. 

(my excuses for the irreverent combination)



   1* Prof. Juergen Schuermann has deceased



   2* DLIA2001

   3* GREC 2001

   4* ICDAR 2001



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1* Prof. Juergen Schuermann has deceased



The following sad message reached me through Rangachar Kasturi

and Horst Bunke. It is a great loss to our community.



Friends:



I just received this sad news from Horst Bunke.

In addition to his well known scientific accomplishments, we all know

him as a kind and universally liked person.

We shall miss him.



-Kasturi

........................

Dear Exco,



I have to tell you very sad news: Prof. Juergen Schuermann died on 

Jan 19, 2001. He died from an advanced state of cancer. He could successfully

beat the first round of his illness, which started about the time when ICDAR

1999 was held - I met him afterwards and he was in good spirits and very well

recovered -, but he lost the second round.



Juergen was a personal friend of mine. He was very well known in the

IAPR, particularly among those who work in handwriting recognition, OCR,

document analysis etc. He is the recipient of the ICDAR Lifetime Award 1999.



Prof. Burkhardt, president of the German Association for PR, will

publish an obituary in the Newsletter of the German Association, and will 

prepare one to be published in the IAPR Newsletter.



Horst Bunke



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2* DLIA2001 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION



   Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications (DLIA2001)

   September 9, 2001 (before ICDAR2001)

   Seattle, Washington USA



   http://www.science.uva.nl/events/dlia2001



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3* GREC 2001 Call for Papers



         Fourth IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition

               Kingston, Ontario, Canada, September 7-8, 2001

                     http://www.cs.queensu.ca/grec2001



                         Abstracts Due March 1, 2001



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4* ICDAR 2001 - Important Dates



   Submission of papers: February 15, 2001

   Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2001

   Camera-ready manuscripts received: June 30, 2001



   http://icdar01.loria.fr/



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This concludes the current TC-11 Newsletter.

Best regards,



Lambert Schomaker

schomaker@computer.org

+31-50-3637908