Cambridge Research Systems to sponsor OPAM keynote address
July 27, 2006
Dear OPAM community,
We are happy to announce an exciting new arrangement between Cambridge
Research Systems (www.crsltd.com) and OPAM (www.opam.net). CRS, which
has long demonstrated a true commitment to advancing the quality of
vision science, will be sponsoring this year's OPAM keynote address.
In the years since OPAM's inception, the keynote address has become a
foundation -- and one of the highlights -- of the meeting. The
speakers have, without exception, demonstrated success in taking on
big questions, challenging conventional wisdom, and breaking
significant empirical ground in a variety of exciting ways. This
year, with great enthusiasm, we will welcome Nancy
Kanwisher.
CRS's generous sponsorship of the keynote will contribute to OPAM's
ability to open its doors this year to everyone who wishes to attend,
free of charge. Additionally, CRS will host the keynote address
online. We are especially excited about this latter development,
because OPAM strongly believes in using today's technology to
efficiently and freely disseminate scientific ideas to the
international research community. By enabling a feature of Microsoft
Powerpoint, CRS will record the audio and the timing with which Nancy
advances her slides, and then they will host the resulting
audio/visual file in flash format. Those wishing to see a recent
example are encouraged to view CRS's hosted file of David Brainard's
talk from the 2006 Color Group meeting. To view the file, click on
the red/green/blue figure on the page linked below:
http://www.crsltd.com/research-topics/spot-colours/index.html
One further reason why OPAM is excited about this arrangement relates
to our primary mission, which is to heighten the visibility of
outstanding young scientists who show a promising future in object
cognition research. As OPAM has grown, our efforts to fulfill this
mission have intensified and have met with quite tangible success
(e.g., OPAM's agreement with Visual Cognition to publish summaries of
the talk presentations). We view CRS's sponsorship and hosting of the
talk as another firm step in the right direction, as the initial
interest generated by the online talk will undoubtedly draw greater
attention to OPAM's student and postdoc presentations as well.
OPAM 2006 continues to pick up steam, and we will be announcing more
exciting news in the days and weeks ahead.
Warmest regards,
Kate Arrington
Monica Castelhano
Steve Franconeri
Andy Leber
(opam.info@gmail.com)
A message from Cambridge Research Systems:
Cambridge Research Systems has established a reputation founded on
values of scientific rigour and integrity. By combining engineering
expertise with innovation and cutting edge technology, we aspire to
design and develop tools that allow the advancement of vision science
throughout the world.
Our products are market leaders, our people, committed and
knowledgeable. Our ambition is to continue setting standards in the
vision science community of which we are proud to be a part.
Cambridge Research Systems participates in many academic conferences
throughout the world, and sponsors selected poster prizes and talks.
We are especially delighted at this opportunity to support scientists
early in their careers, through the 14th Annual OPAM Conference.
For information on our company and products, including visual
stimulus generators, vision tests, eye trackers, and equipment for
fMRI, please visit our website at www.crsltd.com.
Carol Luscombe
Director, Cambridge Research Systems Ltd