IAPR-TC11 Newsletter March 4, 2009 http://www.iapr-tc11.org Announcements ======================================================================= - IAPR-TC11 Leadership Update ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Leadership Update - Message from the outgoing Chair and Vice Chair As many of you know, ICPR2008 marked the end of the 2006-2008 term of the TC11 leadership. It is our great pleasure to announce that Prof. Daniel Lopresti (Lehigh University, US) and Prof. Koichi Kise (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan) have been appointed as Chair and Vice Chair of TC11 for the 2008 - 2010 term. Both Prof. Lopresti and Prof. Kise are leading researchers in the field and bring with them valuable experience and many great ideas to carry on and expand the work of previous years to further strengthen this vibrant community. We have truly enjoyed the two terms we served as Chair and Vice Chair of TC11. We would like to thank the whole TC11 community and particularly the many volunteers we have interacted with: ICDAR organizers and committee members, DAS and IWFHR/ICFHR organizers, and the leadership of our sister TC, TC10, for their service, encouragement, and support of our community through these four years. Please join us in offering the new leadership team our most enthusiastic support and wishing them great success! Jianying Hu, outgoing Chair Apostolos Antonocopoulos, outgoing Vice Chair -----------------------------------------------------------------------