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A Detailed History of the IAPR is now available on the IAPR History page. The ExCo would like to thank Herbert Freeman and the Advisory Committee for compiling this excellent and comprehensive document.

The nomination and endorsement forms for the 2010 King-Sun Fu Prize are available on the King-Sun Fu Prize page.

Deadline for nominations is January 10, 2010.

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the 2008 J.K. Aggarwal
Prize is Prof. Song-Chun Zhu from the University of California in Los Angeles.

The citation for the prize is:

“For fundamental and pioneering contributions to a unified foundation for visual
pattern conceptualization, modeling, learning, and inference with applications
in computer vision and pattern recognition.”

Professor Zhu will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place
at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The J.K. Aggarwal ceremony and lecture have been
scheduled at 09:00-10:030 on Wednesday December 10, 2008.

Congratulations to Professor Zhu on this achievement.

Sincerely,

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary

It is our pleasure to announce that the recipient of the K.S. Fu Prize 2008 is Prof. Anil K. Jain from Michigan State University.

The citation for the prize is:

“For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of pattern recognition, to computer vision, and design of biometric systems.”

Professor Jain will receive his prize at the next ICPR 2008 that will take place at the Tampa Convention Center on December 8-11, 2008. The K.S. Fu ceremony and lecture have been scheduled at 09:30-10:30 on Monday December 8, 2008.

Congratulations to Professor Jain on this achievement.

Denis Laurendeau

IAPR Secretary