CRS celebrates 15 years in vision science!

Cambridge Research Systems (CRS) is proud to announce that 2004 marks its 15th anniversary year. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers, OEMs and partners for their support over the last 15 years.

Background: CRS was founded by Professor John Robson FRS and his son, Tom Robson, to design and manufacture equipment for vision scientists. Now the market leader in this field, CRS remains dedicated to scientific and technical excellence in our growing range of solutions for both basic and clinical research.

2004 has been a great year for Cambridge Research Systems.

We celebrated 15 years of providing technology for vision science by sponsoring and attending more academic meeting than ever, and were pleased to be able to meet face-to-face with so many of our customers from around the world.

We will be closed for the holidays from 25th December until Tuesday 4th December.

Merry Christmas to all our customers, partners and suppliers - thank you for your support, and we look forward to working with you next year.

Skalar Medical BV and Cambridge Research Systems are pleased to announce that from December 2004 CRS have assumed exclusive worldwide responsibility for the supply, support and service of the Skalar Iris Infra Red Light Eye Tracker.

The Skalar Iris is a limbus tracker specifically designed for oculomotor research, and has established an enviable reputation for robust, reliable performance.

The Skalar Iris combines with the CRS ViSaGe visual stimulus generator and vsgEyetrace software for Windows to provide the complete solution.

CRS will continue to use the Skalar name and very much look forward to servicing both old and new customers for many years to come.

More about Skalar IRIS

We can't represent the difference ...

... between 8-bit and 14-bit video on a web site, but the pictures above give an indication of the improvement in image quality that we will be demonstrating using the ViSaGe and the new VSG MATLAB Toolbox at the Applied Vision Association Christmas meeting in Birmingham, on 16th December.

More about the MATLAB Toolbox

In occasione dei 15 anni di contributo alla comunità degli studiosi della visione, Cambridge Research Systems è lieta di sponsorizzare la docidesima Kanizsa Lecture e il simposium annuale di Trieste ‘Perception and Cognition’.

As part of our 15 years of support for the vision science community, Cambridge Research Systems are proud to sponsor The Twelfth Kanizsa Lecture and the annual Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition.

The lecture, "What makes Humans Smart", will be given by Elizabeth S. Spelke (pictured left) on 10th December.

Cambridge Research Systems' Manging Director, Tom Robson, will be speaking this week at the ISO International Workshop on Image Safety IWA4 (Tokyo, 7th -9th December).

In addition to our well known range of Tools for Vision Science, Cambridge Research Systems, in association with Professor Graham Harding, also manufactures the HardingFPA Flash and Pattern Analyser, a system that checks whether broacast images comply with guidelines on image safety for photosensitive epilepsy.

Go the HardingFPA website

This week, the Best Poster Prize at the British Oculomotor Group is sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems.

This week, the Best Poster prize at the British Oculomotor Group is sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems. The meeting is being held on Thursday 2nd December at Institute of Child Health in London.

Congratulations to the winners:

1st Prize:
Sarah Castor-Perry, Parashkev Nachev & Petroc Sumner (Imperial)
Retinotectal contribution to the gap effect.

2nd Prize:
Emma Gowen, Richard Abadi & E Poliakoff (Manchester)
Paying attention to saccadic intrusions.

We are also supporting the attendance of Professor Mark Greenlee (pictured left) who will chair a half day workshop on fMRI and Eye Movements.

MR-Eyetracker for use in a functional imaging environment

We are pleased to announce that we are now represented by three companies in the People's Republic of China.

Arrangements were finalised last week during a UK Trade and Investment mission to China, organised by Business Link Kent.

Cambridge Research Systems is extremely pleased to announce that Dr Andreas Becker of the University of Marburg, Germany has won an Apple iPod in our ViSaGe competition.

The competition produced an overwhelming response and we would like to thank everybody that expressed an interest. We hope Dr. Becker has many hours of happy listening!

Dr. Andreas Becker (pictured left) is currently researching visual and eye movement strategies in Parkinsons disease and other movement disorders such as multiple system atrophy or progressive supranuclear palsy. He is also examining dopaminergic effects of eye movements in these patients using standard paradigms of oculomotor research like reflex-saccades, anti-saccades and memory guided saccades. His current focus is on the influence of dopaminergic medication and the incidence of saccadic intrusions during visual fixation.

The draw was conducted by Debbie Parkin, the Company Accountant, pictured here along side fellow colleagues from right to left: Founder and Managing Director Tom Robson, Tony Carpenter (Commercial Sales Manager), Andrew Lucas-Dean (Technical Projects Manager), Sava Zxivanovich (Hardware Engineer), Amanda Hurrell (Sales Coordinator) and Philip Symons (Software Manager).