Another year draws to a close, and there is lots of exciting work to look forward to in 2007. We hope that those of you celebrating Christmas will have a happy one and send our very best wishes for a rewarding new year to all of our friends and customers across the world.

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In this edition:

• Energy, Information and Retinal Function
  The W.S Stiles Memorial lecture by Simon Laughlin.
• AVA / CRS Training
  A course for budding vision scientists.
• Gazetracker for Everyone
  Support for the entire family of CRS video eyetrackers.

If you have browsed through our Research Topics, you may have seen Karl Gegenfurtner’s very interesting lecture ...

... Color Constancy, Categorization, and Memory Colors, which was sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems at the annual Colour Group meeting 2005.

We were pleased to hear that this work has now appeared in Nature Neuroscience: Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2006) Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience,  9, 1367-1368. [PubMed]

This year the Cambridge Research Systems Sponsored Lecture, Color based object identification: alternatives to inverse optics, will be given by Qasim Zaidi, SUNY College of Optometry, New York. His talk will be recorded, and will appear with slides and audio in Research Topics early in 2007. Sign up for our email newsletter to be notified when it is available.

This week, Cambridge Research Systems are pleased to be sponsoring two events:

On Thursday 16th, the keynote address at the 14th Annual OPAM conference in Houston, Texas, will be given by Dr Nancy Kanwisher (pictured left). OPAM is a conference dedicated to issues in object perception, attention, memory and other areas of visual cognition. It takes place, each year, on the first day of the meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

On Friday 17th , at City University, London, the CRS sponsored speaker Richard Bone will be speaking on Macular pigment optical density determined by reflectometry and flicker: Is flicker the gold standard?

Recordings of both of these lectures will be available in our Research Topics area soon. Sign up for our email newsletter to be notified when it is available.

Congratulations to Richard Gutsell on ten years of loyal service at Cambridge Research Systems.

Richard is our Production Engineer, and is an expert on the manufacture and testing of all the equipment produced in our workshop here in Kent.

We look forward to continuing to work with Richard for the next ten years!