AutoID'99
    CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SECOND
WORKSHOP ON AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION
     ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES

   Morristown, New Jersey, USA
         4-5 October, 1999

Sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

This workshop brings together researchers, developers, and users of
automatic identification technologies including:

   * Biometrics: Fingerprint, Eye, Face, Voice, Hand, Signature, Other.
   * Bar Code Systems and Other Symbologies
   * Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
   * Other Visual Identification Technologies

These auto-ID fields are at an exciting time in their evolution. Novel
research developments are being made at a high rate, and these are being
implemented into commercial systems. This workshop encourages attendance
of
both academic and industry participants to present, examine, and discuss
new developments. The two-day workshop will include paper presentations,
panel sessions, technology demonstrations, and meetings.

Technical papers are solicited in the topic areas listed above. These
papers may describe research ideas, technical systems, or applications.
Since this is a scientific and technical meeting, non-technical talks are
not solicited. Important dates for the workshop are as follows: Paper
submission deadline, 19-April-99; Notification of Acceptance, 1-June-99;
Camera-Ready Paper, 15-July-99.

For paper submission, please send a 1-4 page abstract by 19-April-99 to
Mary Clemente
AutoID Workshop
IEEE Operations Center
445 Hoes Lane
Piscataway. NJ 08855 USA

The Workshop will be held in Morristown, New Jersey, within a short drive
from the Newark International Airport and New York City.

Workshop Chairs and Contact Information: Larry O'Gorman, General Co-Chair,
Veridicom, Inc. (log@veridicom.com), Steve Shellhammer, General Co-Chair,
Symbol Technologies (shell@symbol.com), Q. Peter Li, Local Chair, Bell
Labs, Lucent Technologies (qli@bell-labs.com), Harley Heinrich, Program
Chair, IBM Research, (harley@watson.ibm.com).


See www.bell-labs.com/topic/conferences/AutoID-99


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Workshop Committee

  Lawrence O'Gorman, Veridicom (General Co-Chair)
  Steve Shellhammer, Symbol Technologies (General Co-Chair)
  Jackson He, Symbol Technologies (Treasurer)
  Q. Peter Li, Bell Labs (Local Chair)

  Harley Heinrich, IBM (Program Chair)
  Sprague Ackley, Intermec
  Ruud Bolle, IBM
  James Fales, Ohio University
  Lawrence Hornak, West Virginia University
  Anil Jain, Michigan State University
  Doug Karp, Checkpoint Systems
  Joseph Katz, Symbol Technologies
  Jerry Landt, Amtech
  Andy Longacre, Welch Allyn
  Stephane Maes, IBM
  Hap Patterson, Sensormatic
  Theo Pavlidis, SUNY Stony Brook
  Aaron Rosenberg, AT&T Labs
  Marcos Salganicoff, Sensar
  James L. Wayman, San Jose State University