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Lihong V. Wang and Hsin-I Wu are recipients of the 2010 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award for their book Biomedical Optics: Principles and Imaging, SPIE and the Optical Society (OSA) have announced.

Reginald Birngruber, Director, Medizinisches Laserzentrum Lübeck GmbH, was awarded the BiOS Lifetime Achievement Award at SPIE Photonics West in January.

Each year SPIE recognizes outstanding achievements through its awards program. The Awards Committee is pleased to announce the 2010 SPIE Award recipients.

Laser pioneers, Nobel Laureates, and other laser luminaries were honored at a reception on 12 February in Washington, D.C. The celebration was part of LaserFest, the 2010 celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first demonstration of a working laser, and was co-hosted by the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.

The 2010 SPIE Society election will be held from 2 June to 16 July. Eligible members will receive an e-mail message with instructions on the electronic voting process.

On the ballot for the 2011 term are officer candidates are...

The results of engineering are everywhere, from laser surgery to digital cameras to 3D movies and a plethora of other familiar applications. To celebrate those accomplishments, 15-21 February has been designated Engineers Week by the American National Society of Professional Engineers. SPIE, an international society whose initiatives include educational and outreach activities for optics and photonics engineers and researchers around the world, is an Endorsing Sponsor.

Student innovators have until 19 February to apply for the 2010 Photonics21 Student Innovation Award. The winning project will receive a certificate and a cash prize of €5,000, to be presented at an awards ceremony on 12 April during the opening ceremony at SPIE Photonics Europe in Brussels.

SPIE will promote 62 new Fellows of the Society this year in recognition of the significant scientific and technical contributions of each in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging.

Bolstered by indicators predicting market growth for the industry, the lithography community is preparing for its annual gathering at SPIE Advanced Lithography. The meeting will be held 21-25 February in San Jose, Calif.

SPIE eBooks have moved out of beta development into full launch on the SPIE Digital Library. The launch includes 120 SPIE Press titles from the Field Guides, Monographs, and Tutorial Texts series.

SPIE Reviews, a new open-access journal published by SPIE, has launched on the SPIE Digital Library.

SPIE Photonics West completed its debut week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco Thursday with the final attendance count at 18,327, a record for the event.

Photonics West opening-day attendance was up over last year for both technical registrations and exhibit visitors, with 25% more registrants altogether than in 2009. Conference chairs for the strong Biomedical Optics (BiOS) technical program that opened the week reported seeing high-energy sessions including several overflowing rooms and high-quality talks. The weekend's BiOS exhibition is seeing strong traffic and has a record number of booths.

SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, the largest unclassifed international symposium on sensors, systems, and platforms, is expected to draw more than 6,000 attendees for its 55 technical conferences and 500-company exhibition. Dates are 5-9 April at the Orlando, Florida, World Center Marriott Resort and Convention Center.

SPIE Photonics West opens this week with the largest display of historical and state-of-the-art lasers ever in one place, as the worldwide golden anniversary year of the laser begins.

A new strategic research agenda was presented by Photonics21 President Martin Goetzeler, CEO of Osram, to Rudolf Strohmeier, Head of Cabinet, Information Society and Media, European Commission, at the Photonics21 annual meeting held in Brussels, Belgium, yesterday and today.

SPIE extends deepest condolences on behalf of the Society's members and friends to the people whose lives have been so terribly affected by the recent earthquake in Haiti.

SPIE and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) have announced the appointment of Gaurav Sharma of the Univ. of Rochester as editor of the Journal of Electronic Imaging effective 1 January 2011.

Arun Majumdar, Director of ARPA-E, reaffirmed the agency's sense of "fierce urgency" around identifying game-changing innovations for clean, efficient energy initiatives that serve U.S. R&D, in a meeting earlier this week in Washington, D.C., with SPIE President Ralph James and CEO Eugene Arthurs.

New conferences on imaging and printing in a Web 2.0 world, 3D image processing applications, and computer vision and image analysis of art have been added to Electronic Imaging 2010. The event is jointly sponsored by the Society for Imaging Science adn Technology (IS&T) and SPIE, and will run 17-21 January in the San Jose, Calif., Marriott Hotel and Convention Center.

SPIE has launched a new series of video interviews with leaders in laser technology, as part of the international optics and photonics society's celebration of the 50th anniversary this year of the invention of the laser.