[comp.fonts] Call for papers: Raster imaging and digital typography '91

karl@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Karl Berry) (10/31/90)

			CALL FOR PAPERS
			   RIDT-91

The Second International Workshop on Raster Imaging and Digital
Typography, RIDT-91, will be held in Boston October 16-17, 1991 under
the sponsorship of the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the
IEEE Computer Society.

Papers are solicited for review by a distinguished program committee,
listed below. Submissions are welcome in any of the following or
related topics:

- measuring type quality		- color printing
- rasterization hardware		- anti-aliasing
- digital halftone processing		- page description languages
- character generation and recognition	- rasterizing algorithms
- shape acquistion and manipulation	- hint generation
- font representations for automatic scan conversion
- applications of human vision science to type design
- character design, representation and transformation

Full papers must be received by January 15, 1991 by the General Chair
at the address below. Accepted papers will be published in a
Proceedings which the Workshop expects to be published by Cambridge
University Press in their series on Electronic Publishing. The
conference will be preceeded by concurrent one day tutorials in
typeface design, led by Kris Holmes and Hans Meier, and in type
rasterization, led by Jacobo Valdes.

Information for authors can be obtained by sending mail to the General
Chair, or by retrieving the appropriate files by anonymous ftp to
ftp.cs.umb.edu [192.12.24.4]. The appropriate directory is pub/ridt
and a README file describes the various forms in which the call for
papers is available, ranging from LaTeX source to PostScript.
Individuals who do not wish to submit papers but wish to be on
electronic or paper mailing lists to receive further information about
the conference when the program is available may also reply to the
address below.

Program Committee: 

Chair: Robert Morris, UMASS/Boston
Vice-Chair: Roger Hersch, EPFL
Debra Adams, Xerox PARC		Jacques Andre, IRISA
Patrick Baudelaire, DEC PRL	Richard Beach, Xerox PARC
Charles Bigelow, Stanford	Bruce Brown, Oracle
William Cowan, Univ. Waterloo	Andre Gurtler, Schule fur Gestaltung
John Hobby, Bell Laboratories	Ernst Imhof, URW
Peter Karow, URW		Hideko Kunii, Ricoh
Yoshio Ohno, Keio Univ.		Theo Pavlidis, SUNY Stony Brook
Stephen Schiller, Adobe		Richard Southall, Rank Xerox Europarc
Robert Ulichney, DEC		Jacobo Valdes, Sun
Wang Xuan, Peking Univ.


Robert A. Morris
Chair, RIDT-91
Dept. of Math. and C.S.
UMASS Boston
Boston, MA 02125-3393
email: ridt-request@cs.umb.edu
telephone: 617 287-6466

Please mention how you saw this message, as I am keeping track of the
success rates of our publicity. If you are considering submitting a
paper, let me know to assist our planning.

Thanks for your interest.
Bob Morris