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   Volume 34, Number 1 January 2012  | 
 
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   INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION  | 
 

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   Calls for Papers  | 
 
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   In this issue… 
 Getting to know...Theo Pavlidis, IAPR Fellow Theo Pavlidis discusses his career and the importance of considering the practical aspects of how research can be used. 
 Ingela Nyström shares news from the IAPR Executive Committee. 
 BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS 
 Rangachar Kasturi, IAPR Fellowm, reviews by Anil Jain, Arun Ross, and Karthik Nandhakumar 
 IAPR Conference and Workshop Reports: 
 14th International Conference of Computer Analysis of 
 9th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition 
 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition 
 IAPR/IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics 
 Non-IAPR Conference and Workshop Reports: 
 4th International Conference on 
 Call for papers for ICPR2012. 
 K.S. Fu Prize Call for Nominations The deadline for nominations for the prestigious King Sun Fu Prize is April 6, 2012. 
 J.K. Aggarwal Prize Call for Nominations The deadline for nominations is April 11, 2012. 
 Free books available for review. 
 Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR conferences of interest to the I APR community.  | 
 
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   13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Bari, Italy Deadline: February 28, 2012 September 18-20, 2012  | 
 
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   21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Tsukuba Science City, Japan Deadline: March 31, 2012 November 11-15, 2012  | 
 
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   Joint IAPR International Workshops on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR) and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (SPR) Itsukushima, Hiroshima, Japan Deadline: July 6, 2012 November 7–9, 2012  | 
 
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 IAPR Newsletter Publication Schedule: 
 The IAPR Newsletter is published four times per year at the end of January, April, July, and October.  | 
 
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   IAPR Newsletter Articles, announcements, book reviews, conference and workshop reports 
 Contact the editor: Alexandra Branzan Albu, aalbu@ece.uvic.ca 
 Deadline: March 23, 2012  | 
 
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   Call for Submissions  | 
 
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   4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition Huatulco, Mexico Deadline: January 30, 2012 June 27-30, 2012  | 
 
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   17th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition   | 
 
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   Newsletter Editor-in-Chief: Alexandra Branzan Albu  | 
 
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   Layout Editor: Linda J. O’Gorman logorman@alumni.duke.edu  |