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   Volume 27 Number  1 January 2005  | 
 
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   INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION  | 
 
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   In this issue…   Pattern Recognition in Origami “The link between origami and mathematics became widely known in 2003 when a MacArthur Award was given to Erik Demaine, a young mathematician now at MIT.”   Walter Kropatsch proposes two initiatives “to improve access to the current state of knowledge and to recognize high quality work more systematically.”   Salil Prabhakar gives an in depth review of a new Springer publication, The Guide to Biometrics by Ruud M. Bolle, et al.  “Along with a discussion of the underlying concepts, the authors have shared numerous practical insights and suggestions…”   News about IAPR business, including this the first  electronic edition of the IAPR Newsletter.    Conference & Workshop Reports: MCS 2004 5th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems   DAS 2004 6th International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems   AMDO 2004 3rd International Workshop on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects   IWFHR-9 9th International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition   Dick Duda responds to the “BooksBooksBooks” feature article, IAPR Newsletter, Volume 26 Number 3, July 2004.  | 
 
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   Calls for Papers  | 
 
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   14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis Joensuu, Finland Deadline: 28 February  2005  19-22 June 2005  | 
 
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   First International Conference on  Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence  Kolkata, India Deadline: 15 February 2005  18-22 December 2005  | 
 
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   13th International Conference on  Image Analysis and Processing  Cagliari, Italy Deadline: 15 February 2005  6-8 September 2005  | 
 
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   IWFHR 06  10th International Workshop on  Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition  | 
 
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   8th International Conference on  Document Analysis and Recognition  | 
 
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   This is the first electronic edition of the IAPR Newsletter.     For more information, see  |