1. Progress Report IAPR Education Committee Patrick J. Flynn, chair

2. Membership P. Flynn, Univ. of Notre Dame (chair) B. Draper, Colorado State Univ. G. Bebis, Univ. of Nevada-Reno F. Ferrie, McGill University H. Christensen, KTH T. Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences A. Fred, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon

3. Charge Develop centralized list of pattern recognition educational resources for an IAPR-sponsored Web site Formalize criteria and selection process for the Zamperoni best student paper award presented at ICPR

4. Progress: Educational Resources Actions –Committee briefed by e-mail –Each committee member assigned 2-4 TC chairs to contact with a form letter requesting guidance on resources –E-mail records indicate at least twelve TC chairs were contacted

5. Progress: Educational Resources (ctd.) Actions (ctd.) –TC13, TC1, TC2, TC7 chairs responded with a few links –TC4: no chair response but educational site identified –No responses from TC9, TC12, TC16 –Chairs of TC4, TC18, TC10, TC17 may only recently have been contacted –Preliminary discussion of web site hosting (no action)

6. Progress: Educational Resources (ctd.) Chair’s recommendations –Collect and post initial responses (one web page) –Redouble efforts to obtain additional resources –Coax some unresponsive Committee members to begin contributing Action items for ExCo –determine Web space and access policy –Gently remind TC chairs to respond to Committee’s inquiries regarding resources

7. Progress: Zamperoni award policy No action this year Will initiate discussion of criteria in Summer 2003 Request for ExCo: provide informal history of paper award and selection process