Tutorial Program

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• List basic processing functions in a digital color imaging system and schematically represent a system from input to output
• Describe unintended interactions between input and output characterization profiles and ways to mitigate these
• Comprehend and exploit the interactions between color and spatial dimensions in optimizing a color imaging system
• Explain how media characteristics influence the performance of color imaging devices
• Understand the interactions between halftones and color in output devices and some techniques for co-optimization of these
• Appreciate how system design and optimization can surmount problems that are not resolvable in individual components

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for engineers, scientists, students, and managers interested in acquiring a broad, systemwide view of digital color imaging systems. Practitioners and experts who are familiar with specific components also stand to gain a better perspective for the remainder of the system. Case studies on system optimization presented in this course will be of interest to technologists looking for ways to improve their digital color imaging systems and will hopefully serve as inspiration for additional research in this area. Attendees are expected to be familiar with basic image processing and colorimetry.

Raja Bala, principal color scientist at Xerox’s Imaging and Services Technology Center, has performed research and development in color imaging for the last 13 years. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the School of Electrical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Gaurav Sharma has been associate professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at the University of Rochester since Fall 2003. Prior to that he was with the Xerox Innovation group. Sharma has done research in color imaging for the past 12 years and is editor of the “Digital Color Imaging Handbook” (CRC press, 2003).

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
This course will enable the attendee to:

• Describe common digital imaging workflows within the context of an image state architecture model
• Understand the characteristics and uses of commonly encountered color encodings (e.g., sRGB, sYCC, ICC PCS, RIMM/ROMM RGB, etc.)
• Distinguish between the different types of color management transformations used in digital imaging systems
• Understand the relationship between color management systems and the image state architecture model

Intended Audience: This course is intended for scientists, engineers, analysts, and managers involved in the design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, or evaluation of digital imaging systems.

Kevin Spaulding received a B.S. in Imaging Science from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1983, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1988 and 1992, respectively. He has been with Eastman Kodak Company since 1983 where he is currently a Senior Principal Scientist in the Imaging Science Division. He serves on several international standards committees that are working on the standards pertaining to the unambiguous communication of digital color image data in digital imaging systems. His research interests include color reproduction, digital halftoning, image processing algorithms for digital camera and printers, and image quality metrics.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Explain how JPEG 2000 works
• List the factors that control the performance of JPEG 2000
• Describe the benefits of JPEG 2000
• List the members of the JPEG2000 file format family and their applicability
• Assess the suitability of JPEG 2000 for their application

Intended Audience: This course is intended for those who have some familiarity with image compression and image processing and who want to know what JPEG2000 has to offer and how it may benefit their application.

Robert Buckley, research fellow with the Xerox Imaging & Services Technology Center in Webster, NY, is the Xerox representative on the US JPEG 2000 committee and was the Project Editor for Part 6 of the JPEG2000 standard, which defines the compound image file format. He has given several external talks on JPEG2000 in the archiving and cultural heritage community and has developed JPEG2000 profiles for on-line imaging applications.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand the principles of color formation for most widely used emissive, reflective, transmissive, and transflective display technologies.
• Compare the color performance of CRT versus AMLCD of different modes such as twisted nematic (TN), in-plane switching (IPS, Super-IPS), vertical alignment (MVA), and fringe field switching (FFS) technologies.
• Understand projection technologies such as DLP, LCD and LCoS and get an overview of emerging display technologies.
• Learn about gray tracking, its importance in color quality on displays, and how to control it.
• Select the optimal color model for a display and highlight its dependency on display technology.
• Calibrate and characterize different types of displays (including the projector used in the class) using tools varying from visual calibrator to instrumentbased ones.
• Apply the knowledge from the course to practical problems of color control in display projects

Intended Audience: The course is intended for engineers, scientists, project managers, pre-press professionals, and others confronting color issues in electronic displays.

Gabriel Marcu is senior scientist in the ColorSync group at Apple Computer. His achievements are in color reproduction on displays and desktop printing (characterization/ calibration, halftoning, gamut mapping, ICC profiling, HDR imaging). Marcu is responsible for color calibration and characterization of Apple display products. He has taught seminars and short courses on color topics at Shizuoka University (Japan), UC Berkeley, EMI Cambridge (UK), and various IS&T, SPIE, and SID conferences. Marcu is co-chair of the 2006 Electronic Imaging Symposium, as well as co-chair of one of its conferences, Color Imaging: Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand the nature of the chemical toner process in comparison with the conventional grinding process.
• Distinguish chemically prepared toners from pulverized toners.
• Make judgments and assessments as to the best toner technology for a given xerographic application based on the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Understand the current scenario of chemically prepared toner on the market and its potential for future applications.

Intended Audience: This course will offer an introduction to chemically produced toners and is directed toward anyone seeking an understanding of the nature of chemical toners and its potential in xerographic application. Some knowledge of xerography and chemistry is helpful, but is not essential.

Grazyna Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz is a principal scientist in Material and Process Technology in the Supplies Delivery Unit of Xerox, where she leads chemical toner technology and polymer carrier coating design activities. She received her MSc and Eng Degree in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering from Warsaw Technical University in Poland, and her PhD in Chemistry from Rutgers University. After postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto, she joined The Xerox Research Center of Canada (1988). In 1992, she pioneered work on Emulsion Aggregation (EA) toner at Xerox for future color xerographic applications. Kmiecik-Lawrynowicz has 88 publications and patents, including 70 US patents. She is a recipient of three Eagle Awards for the highest number of patents at Xerox (1994, 1997, and 1998) and is an IS&T Fellow and a member of the American Chemical Society.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand printhead firing frequency, drop volume, velocity, and drop shape trade offs from the principal desktop inkjet printer manufacturers.
• Examine key differences in piezo and thermal inkjet printhead performance characteristics.
• Look at patents for future direction.

Intended Audience: This course will benefit those somewhat familiar with inkjet printing technology who want a better understanding of the differences in printhead output parameters of popular manufacturers.

Rob Beeson is a senior member of the technical staff in the Inkjet technology Platforms Unit of Hewlett-Packard. Since 1985, he has held several management and engineering positions in thermal inkjet technology and is currently the R&D Competitive Intelligence Team Leader. Beeson holds 12 inkjet patents, holds his BS/MS in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, and has worked with several divisions in HP since 1966.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• List and explain the market drivers for inkjet in digital industrial printing.
• Identify the shows and conferences to attend to gain further awareness.
• Gain an overview of current and future applications of industrial inkjet technology.
• Summarize the technology of inkjet printing and how this can be leveraged to best effect in the future.
• Be aware of the new technology applications of digital fabrication and printed electronics.

Intended Audience: This course is aimed at executives and scientists working in organizations considering entering the field of industrial inkjet either as a supplier or a user. It is particularly appropriate for users or suppliers of other technologies such as screen-printing or photography who are considering the potential of inkjet. It is also aimed at those looking at inkjet as a technology that will unlock new applications such as digital fabrication.

Alan Hodgson is an independent consultant with more than 20 years experience in printed hard copy. With a combined marketing and technical background he is able to give technical issues a commercial perspective.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Identify major fade mechanisms for imaging dyes and pigments that will then lead to stabilization options.
• Provide a fundamental scientific explanation for imaging material light stability as a function of molecular structure that will indicate stabilization techniques.
• Describe techniques to stabilize existing imaging dyes and pigments more effectively.
• Provide direction for the synthesis of more light stable dyes and pigments.
• Formulate environments for imaging dyes and pigments that will provide greater light stability.
• Recognize conditions that will lead to enhanced electronic energy wasting in imaging dyes and pigments to provide enhanced light stability.
• Understand the molecular absorptivitylight stability dichotomy and how to use it.
• Discover the most important contributors to light stability.

Intended Audience: Synthetic dye chemists, imaging scientists, mechanistic chemists and scientists concerned with imaging material light stability would especially benefit from an awareness of light fade pathways and guidelines to enhance the light stability of imaging dyes and pigments.

Franklin D. Saeva, a recent retiree from Eastman Kodak Company Research Laboratories, is a physical-organic chemist with extensive mechanistic photochemistry experience. He was the Chairman of the 1995 Gordon Research Conference on Organic Photochemistry, has 67 scientific publications, and holds 38 US patents. Saeva is a member of the American Chemical Society and Inter-American Photochemical Society.

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	until April 7	after April 7
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Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

• Acquisition
• Spectral color reproduction: microdispersion and Lippmann methods.
• Trichromatic reproduction. Unwanted stimulations.
• Camera spectral sensitivities Matrixing
• Camera sensor designs
• Scanners
• Transmission
• Luminance-chrominance in broadcastingJPEG and MPEG methods of compressing the bit requirements of digital signals
• Signal processing sequences in camcorders and digital still cameras
• Displays
• Current medium, small, and large displays
• Desirable improvements: consistency, color gamut, effect of ambient light, resolution
• Displays of the future: luminancechrominance, wedge optics, mosaiquential, reflection

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand the difficulty of spectral color reproduction, the limitations of trichromatic color reproduction, and the nature of ideal camera and scanner spectral sensitivities
• Explain the ways in which the number of bits required in broadcast television and in digital imaging can be reduced to managable amounts
• Discuss the merits and limitations of current electronic display devices, the ways in which they need to be improved, and know about some possible displays of the future

Intended Audience: This course is intended for engineers, scientists, students, and managers who want to obtain an overview of the parts of digital imaging systems that affect accuracy of color reproduction and hence the quality of their images. Some experience with color systems is helpful, but not mandatory.

Robert Hunt holds a BSc, PhD, and DSc from London University (UK). He worked for 36 years at the Kodak Research Laboratories at Harrow, England, taking early retirement as Assistant Director of Research. He now works as an independent color consultant. Hunt has had two books published: The Reproduction of Colour, now in its sixth edition, and Measuring Colour, now in its third. He is well-known as a conference speaker, having given keynote presentations at many previous IS&T meetings.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

• Consumer imaging
• Industrial and security imaging
• Scientific and medical imaging
• Professional photography and entertainment imaging

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Describe differences in architecture, performance, and functionality between full frame CCD, interline CCD, and CMOS image sensors
• Express the performance limitations of today’s commercially available CCDs and CMOS imagers
• Compare image sensors with different architectures from different manufacturers in ways that are meaningful and application-specific.
• Convert between different quantities and units used by different manufacturers to specify imager performance.
• Use an understanding of high-volume imager production testing techniques to relate sensor specifications to application-specific measures of performance.
• Relate radiometric and photometric imager specifications.
• Determine base ISO and noise-based ISO for digital imaging systems and identify the most useful measure of sensitivity for the application.

Intended Audience: This course is appropriate for engineers and managers involved in the evaluation and procurement of image sensors and the development of digital imaging systems, as well as marketing and business development professionals who would like to survey digital imaging applications and the competitive advantages of different types of image sensors in those applications.

Gloria Putnam, world wide applications engineering manager at Eastman Kodak Company, Image Sensor Solutions, assists product developers with the selection of image sensors and development of cameras for applications ranging from radiography to consumer photography.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Explain and model the behavior of key components in an imaging system, including the scene, optics, sensor, processor, display and human observer.
• Describe how to:
• generate scene radiance images from a database of high dynamic multispectral scene data
• convert scene radiance data to an irradiance image at the sensor
• change the sensor irradiance image into electron counts within each pixel of the image sensor
• transform sensor images into processed camera images suitable for rendering on specific displays
• apply image quality metrics to quantify color accuracy, spatial resolution and noise artifacts
• Use Matlab simulations to characterize image quality trade offs such as how:
• spatial resolution and light sensitivity vary with pixel size
• color filter arrays influence system color accuracy and spatial resolution
• camera motion determines the effective spatial resolution
• the effects of different demosaicing algorithms depend on spatial resolution

Intended Audience: This tutorial is intended for engineers who are designing optics, sensors, processing algorithms or displays for digital cameras and cell phone imagers.

Joyce Farrell, executive director of the Stanford Center for Image Systems Engineering, received her PhD from Stanford University and has more than 20 years of research and professional experience working at a variety of companies and institutions, including NASA Ames Research Center, New York University, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and Shutterfly (a startup specializing in online digital photo-finishing). She is also the founder of ImagEval Consulting, LLC.

Prices
	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Identify digital printing technologies and digital media.
• Learn about the permanence properties of materials used in digital photography and fine art printing.
• Understand the permanence requirements of different imaging applications
• Assess the factors that are most detrimental to media permanence, predict the material’s sensitivity to environmental factors and learn how to avoid these factors.
• Recommend handling and storage conditions adapted to the materials.

Intended Audience: This course is an introductory to medium level class for those involved in the storage and archival of digital colour images and documents, as well as scientists and engineers involved in printer/ ink and media development and evaluation. The class will be beneficial to print providers for the artists community, gallerists, and museum conservators who need to make decision about print preservation and display.

Rita Hofmann holds a degree in physical chemistry from the University of Goettingen. After postdoctoral studies in atmospheric sciences and air pollutants at the University of Colorado, she joined Ciba-Geigy to research of new analytical methods. In 1985, Hofmann moved to ILFORD, where she was involved in work on digital photography, photographic color science, image evaluation of hardcopy technologies, and the development of test methods for ink-jet media. She is a long-term active member of the ISO, TC42-WG5 subcommittee responsible for standardizing image stability test methods for digital photographic prints. Hofmann is currently head of R&D for ILFORD Imaging Switzerland. For several years, she has given numerous presentations on image stability in ink-jet images, color science, and digital photography.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 150.00	$ 180.00
Student Member	$ 75.00	$ 90.00
Non-Member	$ 195.00	$ 225.00
Student Non-Member	$ 95.00	$ 110.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Describe the basics of papermaking and paper coating processes
• Understand paper property and testing methods
• Comprehend key media properties for achieving good color printing performance for EP and inkjet printing

Intended Audience: This course is directed toward anyone seeking an introduction to papermaking and paper coating fundamentals and who wants a better understanding of the relationship of media properties and performance for EP and inkjet printing. No working knowledge of papermaking or coating techniques will be presumed or required.

Sen Yang is manager of Surface Science and Digital Printing in the corporate research center of the International Paper Company. He received his PhD in polymer science from Brown University. Since 1990, he has worked in the field of specialty paper and film coatings for digital imaging applications. Prior to joining International Paper, Yang worked for Océ-Arkwright and Champion International Corporation where he led and contributed to a number of successful specialty paper and coated film products both for private label and OEM businesses. He has several patents in the area of coated inkjet paper and specialty films.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Increase awareness of the state of the art, trends and directions in image understanding
• Comprehend the main concepts and general approaches
• Gain exposures to real-world problem solving
• Understand robustness and design issues
• Start thinking about where IU can make a difference

Intended Audience: This course is intended for engineers, scientists, product planners, and end users needing a broad understanding of image understanding technology along with judgment and perspective in order to add intelligence to any given digital imaging application.

Jiebo Luo is a senior principal scientist with Kodak Research Laboratories. His research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, medical imaging, and multimedia communication. He has authored more than 100 technical papers and holds more than 30 granted US patents. He is on the editorial boards of Pattern Recognition, Journal of Electronic Imaging, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is an adjunct professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, a Kodak Distinguished Inventor, a former member of the Kodak Research Scientific Council, and a Senior Member of IEEE. In 2004, he received the Eastman Innovation Award—the most prestigious technology prize given by Kodak—for his work on image analysis algorithms that power Kodak’s market-leading digital radiography systems.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Recognize the principles controlling crystal size and size distribution in precision controlled precipitations
• Understand and control the size and size distribution of nano- and larger particles
• Learn advanced principles to solve precipitation problems in batch and continuous processes
• Quantitatively relate the crystal size to the precipitation variables
• Discover ways to minimize the number of experiments in precipitation R&D and product development
• Learn to predict process limitations and breakdowns
• Control competitive heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation in precipitations
• Learn one quantitative and self-consistent crystallization model for batch and continuous precipitations

Intended Audience: Industrial and research chemists, chemical engineers, scientists, and product engineers who need to control precipitation processes for precise crystal size and size distribution. The information is essential in crystallization R&D, quality control, design, development, production processes, pilot plant operations, and manufacturing. Basic knowledge of physical chemistry, chemical engineering, some knowledge of calculus and of process fundamentals is helpful.

Ingo H. Leubner is a physical chemist with more than 30 years of experience in research and product development. He is currently senior scientist at Crystallization Consulting. Leubner has presented lectures and seminars at national and international conferences, major universities, and industries. His research led to new insights, theories, and models for the precision control of crystal nucleation and size. These were applied to the precipitation of silver halides at Eastman Kodak Company. An IS&T Fellow, he has received the Lieven-Gevaert Medaland the IS&T Service Award. Leubner is listed in American Men and Women of Science and in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He is a Fellow of Sigma Xi and a member of ACS, IS&T, AAAS, AGU, RPCN, and Torrey Pines Research. More information is available at www.crystallizationcon. com.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand scaling experiments including ratings (e.g., “rate the quality from 1 to 10”), paired comparisons and rankings
• Select the appropriate experiment and statistical method.
• Analyze data using Microsoft Excel and the open source statistical package ‘R’.
• Diagnose model fit and compute confidence intervals.
• Incorporate covariates into models to explain preference as a function of system parameters (e.g., perceived image quality as a function of hue angle).

Intended Audience: Those who conduct image quality experiments and product evaluation studies, as well as those who analyze and interpret the results will benefit from this course. The intended audience includes imaging scientists, imaging systems engineers, and technical managers. Prerequisites include a basic knowledge of elementary statistics and familiarity with Microsoft Excel.

John C. Handley is a member of the research and technical staff at Xerox Corporation. He holds a BS and MS in mathematics from Ohio State University and a PhD in imaging science from Rochester Institute of Technology. He consults with image quality experts on issues of experimental design and analysis. He has published many papers in applied statistics and image processing and has taught short courses on psychometric statistical procedures at Xerox, Cornell University, and IS&T’s PICS 2003 He is a member of the American Statistical Association and a Senior Member of IEEE. He holds 19 US patents.

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	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Use standardized frameworks to communicate about software and its artifacts.
• Improve your organization’s practices in software specification, design, production and testing of industrial strength software.
• Improve your ability to manage all aspects of the software production process.
• Pursue more in-depth study in various aspects of software engineering practice.

Intended Audience: This course is intended to help those in industry, who, though practicing as software engineers, have had little or no formal training in software engineering. The typical student will have an undergraduate degree in mathematics, engineering, a physical science, or the equivalent experience. Some experience in working on a software project team either as a requirements writer, designer, developer, tester, or manager would be helpful, but is not essential. No experience in programming in any particular language is assumed. An understanding of calculus is helpful, but not essential.

Phillip A. Laplante is associate professor of Software Engineering at Penn State’s Great Valley Graduate Center. He has been involved in the development and design of real-time and imaging systems for more than 20 years. He has published 20 books and numerous papers on the topics including Real-Time Systems, Real-Time Imaging and Software Engineering and has authored and taught many courses for SPIE. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Imaging Science & Technology. Laplante holds a BS, MEng, and PhD from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from University of Colorado.

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Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Understand technological applications where organic electronic materials are, or may become, important.
• Develop criteria for the design, synthesis, purification, and broad-scale characterization of organic electronic materials.
• Describe some of the specialized techniques used to characterize these materials both as pure molecules and in devices.
• Explain basic device design concepts

Intended Audience: Although based primarily on chemistry and physics, this course will be of interest to a wide audience of scientists, engineers, project managers, and others interested in the design, synthesis, and applications of organic electronic materials. Being an introductory course, the subject matter will not be dealt with in great detail. Rather the audience will be introduced to the key areas of scientific expertise required to become knowledgeable in this area. References to more detailed information will be provided.

Zoran D. Popovic has a BS in electrical engineering from University of Belgrade and a PhD in materials science from McMaster University (Canada). He has worked at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada for more than 30 years where he is currently a research fellow. His major interest has been organic photoreceptors and, more recently, organic electroluminescent devices. Popovic is internationally renowned in both fields; he has published more than 120 scientific papers and holds 50 US patents.

Tim Bender received both his BS and PhD in Chemistry from Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). He is currently a member of the research staff at Xerox Research Centre of Canada where he has been a member of the Imaging Materials Design and Synthesis Group for the past four years. Bender has authored 15 scientific papers in a number of fields including imaging materials and fundamental polymer chemistry and materials science. He holds seven US patents in the area of imaging materials. In 2004, he was appointed adjunct professor of chemistry at McMaster University (Canada).

Prices
	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00

Benefits:
benefits Tutorial attendees will be able to:

• Describe how images are used in real world environments
• Identify the causes of image degradation and how they interact
• Know the four questions you should always ask about image preservation
• Understand how we measure both objective and subjective change in images
• Appreciate the pitfalls involved in predicting image permanence
• Recognize the value and the limitations of image permanence standards
• Acknowledge the arguments for a holistic approach to image permanence

Intended Audience: This course will be of value to anyone who creates, uses, sells, or preserves photographic-quality images and who wants to understand how these images change over time under the influence of environmental factors. Examples will be drawn from a variety of imaging technologies to understand both their differences and common attributes.

Jon Kapecki is an imaging consultant who was a senior researcher for more than 30 years at Eastman Kodak Company where he studied image formation and degradation processes and new photofinishing technologies. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois and has taught courses at Kodak, the University of Rochester, and state universities. He has authored several review articles and encyclopedia entries on imaging systems and is a member of an ISO task group on image permanence standards.

Prices
	until April 7	after April 7
Member	$ 200.00	$ 230.00
Student Member	$ 100.00	$ 115.00
Non-Member	$ 250.00	$ 280.00
Student Non-Member	$ 125.00	$ 140.00