SPIE  | | Type | Professional Organization | | Founded | July 1, 1955 | | Origins | Formerly: the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, and later as the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers | | Staff | Prof. María Yzuel (current president) | | Area served | Worldwide | | Focus | Optical related technology | | Method | Conferences, Publications, Trade Shows | | Members | 16,000+ | | Website | spie.org | SPIE is a non-profit international society for the exchange, collection and dissemination of knowledge in optics, photonics, and imaging engineering. SPIE organizes conferences, courses and exhibitions covering all aspects and applications of optical engineering. SPIE publishes six refereed journals, a member magazine SPIE Professional, the technical news website SPIE Newsroom, as well as conference proceedings and peer-reviewed handbooks, reference books, and tutorials. [edit] Former names On July 1, 1955 SPIE was founded as the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers in California to specialize in the application of photographic instrumentation. In 1964 the Society formally changed its name to the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. In 1977 SPIE moved its headquarters to Bellingham, Washington, and in 1981, to reflect a changing Membership, the Society began doing business as SPIE—The International Society for Optical Engineering. In 2007, the Society ended its DBA, and is referred to simply as SPIE. [edit] Mission The mission of SPIE is to serve scientists and engineers in industry, academia, and government. SPIE constituents work in a wide variety of fields that utilize some aspect of optics and photonics, which is the science and application of light. More specifically, optics is a branch of physics that examines the behavior and properties of light and the interaction of light with matter. Photonics is the science and technology of generating, controlling, and detecting photons, which are particles of light. Individuals involved with SPIE conduct research and apply new techniques to the design and development of technologies such as semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, medical imaging, next-generation displays, battlefield technologies, entertainment, biometric security, image processing, communications, astronomy, and much more. SPIE has Members from around the world, including North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, with central offices in North America and Europe. History | Year | Event | | 1955 | On July 1, the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers is founded to specialize in the application of photo-optical instrumentation. The Society's first local technical meeting is held in Los Angeles on August 8. | | 1961 | Membership in SPIE reaches 1,000. George W. Goddard Award is established to recognize exceptional achievement in optical or photonic instrumentation for aerospace, atmospheric science, or astronomy. | | 1962 | The official Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers Journal is launched with an October/November issue. | | 1965 | The SPIE Newsletter name is changed to SPIE-GLASS. The number of national SPIE Chapters reaches 15. | | 1966 | President's Award is established to recognize meritorious service of outstanding benefit to the Society. Award is given by the President and the Board of Directors. SPIE holds four technical conferences. | | 1969 | Membership reaches 1,200 and Sustaining Membership reaches 50. SPIE holds five technical conferences. Joseph Yaver is hired as Executive Director. | | 1970 | Journal name changed to Journal SPIE, and SPIE-GLASS is included in Journal. Tabletop Exhiborama is established as SPIE hallmark at the Fiber Optics meeting in Dallas, Texas. SPIE produces its first meeting in Japan. | | 1972 | The SPIE Journal name changes to Optical Engineering. The 100th Sustaining Member enrolls in SPIE. SPIE holds eight technical conferences. | | 1973 | National Headquarters moves from Redondo Beach to Palos Verdes, California. SPIE holds 11 technical conferences. | | 1975 | The Society becomes financially viable with income reaching $500,000. SPIE holds 16 technical conferences. SPIE presents author manuscript kit at all its conferences. | | 1977 | The Gold Medal of the Society Award is established to recognize outstanding engineering or scientific accomplishments in optics, electro-optics, or photographic technologies or applications. The Society Headquarters is moved to Bellingham, Washington. SPIE income reaches $1,000,000. Membership is 2,000. The 100th Proceedings Volume is published. | | 1979 | Proceedings Volume 200 is published. The SPIE Technology Achievement Award is established to recognize outstanding accomplishments in optical, electro-optical, or photonics engineering technologies. SPIE holds 46 technical conferences. The Society establishes its first European office. | | 1980 | Membership reaches 3,000. SPIE Headquarters reaches 30 full-time employees. The Society purchases land in Bellingham, Washington, for future construction of International Headquarters. The number of technical papers doubles in the SPIE Journal, Optical Engineering. | | 1981 | To reflect its rapidly changing Membership and fast-paced technology, the Society name is officially defined as SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. The Society celebrates its 25th Anniversary in San Diego, California, with a record 21 technical conferences, 160 instrument displays, and 18 tutorials. SPIE reaches milestones of 4,000 Members and 5,000 exhibitors. Over 10,000 papers are published in SPIE Proceedings and Optical Engineering. Over 150,000 copies of SPIE Proceedings and Journals are distributed. | | 1983 | The First International Technical Symposium (Geneva, Switzerland) has 1,300 attendees from 26 countries. Due to demand in various technical areas, new Technical Working Groups are formed. The Dennis Gabor Award is established to recognize outstanding inventive accomplishments in optical systems. International Headquarters is officially dedicated in Bellingham, Washington. | | 1990 | The Society establishes an SPIE Soviet Union Chapter, making it the first United States-based scientific and engineering society to open a chapter in the then-U.S.S.R. SPIE also establishes Chapters in Poland and Hungary. International Headquarters expansion is completed in September. | | 1992 | SPIE develops its first fully operational Internet site with plans for a complete online services expansion. The quarterly Journal of Electronic Imaging debuts, co-published by SPIE and IS&T. | | 1993 | After 24 years as Executive Director of SPIE, Joe Yaver announces his retirement. Jim Pearson is appointed new Executive Director. SPIE Press publishes The Infrared & Electro-Optical Systems Handbook. A Proceedings milestone is reached when the Society publishes its 2,000th Volume. SPIE cosponsors the first Symposium on Coupling Technology to National Need in Albuquerque, New Mexico. | | 1995 | SPIE celebrates its 40th anniversary. Photonics West debuts in San Jose, California. Co-located with the Photonics West Event is the SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Event. SPIE cosponsors Photomask in Kawasaki City, Japan, with SPIE Japan and BACUS. | | 1997 | Photonics West is a huge success with over 10,000 attendees and 415 exhibitors. Membership reaches all-time high with over 13,500 Individual Members and 317 Corporate Members. The number of SPIE Regional Chapters reaches a high of 21 in over 17 different countries. | | 1999 | After more than 5 years as Executive Director of SPIE, Jim Pearson resigns. Eugene G. Arthurs is appointed Executive Director. SPIE Membership continues to grow and reaches an all-time high with 14,338 individual members. | | 2001 | In January, oemagazine launches. This new Member publication focuses on optics, photonics, and Society happenings. The SPIE European Satellite office opens in Cardiff, United Kingdom, with Karin Burger as Manager. | | 2003 | SPIE Digital Library is launched, offering 70,000 full-text papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings. SPIE and OSA secure a $1.7 million NSF grant that will actively involve students, parents, teachers, school districts, and their greater communities in the areas of science and engineering. The SPIE Scholarship Committee awards over $200,000 in scholarships and grants to more than 80 individuals and educational or research institutions worldwide. | | 2004 | SPIE holds two new events to meet the demands of researchers and engineers: Optics East and Photonics Europe. The Society's largest-ever European astronomy event - Astronomical Telescopes - was held in Glasgow, Scotland, with over 2,000 attendees. SPIE Press introduces the Field Guide Series with four titles: Field Guide to Visual and Ophthalmic Optics; Field Guide to Adaptive Optics; Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics; Field Guide to Geometrical Optics. The SPIE Digital Library includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings, including full coverage from 1998 to the present. The Society provides more than $700,000 in scholarships, grants, and financial support to encourage scientific and technological education. SPIE Membership reaches an all-time high of 16,550 Members. | | 2005 | SPIE celebrates its 50th anniversary in San Diego, California in conjunction with the SPIE Optics and Photonics Symposium. The SPIE Digital Library is extended back to 1990 and surpasses 200,000 online papers. SPIE Europe and the SPIE Polish Chapter teamed up on new International Congress on Optics & Optoelectronics in Warsaw, Poland. | | 2006 | The SPIE Newsroom online magazine and SPIE Professional member magazine are launched. Two electronic journals, the Journal of Nanophotonics and the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, are announced. Membership is over 17,000 and SPIE has 91 Student Chapters throughout the world. An all-time record number of 41,000 attended SPIE events. SPIE's APOC (Asia-Pacific Optical Communications) symposium was held for the first time outside of China in Korea, with co-sponsors OSK, KAPID and Gwangju City. And for the first time ever, SPIE sponsored a meeting in India: The Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing Symposium was held in Goa. | | 2007 | SPIE retires its DBA (The International Society for Optical Engineering) and determines that SPIE will be the name under which the Society continues to do business, continuing a long history of supporting an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light. | | 2008 | The SPIE Digital Library passes the 250,000-article milestone. SPIE announces the move from San Jose to San Francisco for Photonics West 2010. SPIE discontinues regional chapters and welcomes the launch of new societies from Hong Kong and Poland. Nobel Laureate John C. Mather speaks at SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation in Marseille, France. The SPIE Newsroom wins a 2008 EXCEL Award from the Society of National Association Publications (SNAP). SPIE installs a new 15kW solar electric system on the roof of its Bellingham, WA, headquarters. SPIE joins with Laurin Publishing to launch the first annual Prism Awards for Innovation. Taipei holds first-ever SPIE Lithography Asia conference. The first "Senior Members" are announced. | [edit] Conferences and exhibitions SPIE Conferences and Exhibitions connect optical science and the optics industry. The Society is affiliated with over 140 meetings and events each year. The most prominent of these events are: [edit] Publications SPIE has a long publishing history, dating back to the first years of the Society. The first publication was launched in 1957 and was simply named the SPIE Newsletter. Soon after, in 1959, SPIE published its first book, the SPIE Photographic Instrumentation Catalog. The newsletter morphed into the Society’s first journal and would continue to evolve as the years passed. It is now known as Optical Engineering, SPIE’s flagship monthly journal. Throughout the years SPIE has created many publications spanning journals, magazines, newspapers, websites, and a variety of books. SPIE currently publishes: - six scientific online journals
- SPIE Technical Paper Proceedings
- Digital Library containing 235,000+ online technical papers compiled from the journals and proceedings dating back to 1990 with 17,000+ papers added annually
- SPIE Press, the academic publishing arm of the Society, which publishes monographs, tutorial texts, field guides, and other books pertinent to optics and photonics
- SPIE Professional, the online and printed quarterly magazine
- SPIE Newsroom, a news website covering 13 technical communities in optics and photonics
[edit] Scientific journals - Optical Engineering (OE), the flagship monthly journal of SPIE publishes peer-reviewed papers reporting on research and development in all areas of optics, photonics, and imaging science and engineering.
- Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), co-published quarterly with the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, publishes peer-reviewed papers that cover research and applications in all areas of electronic imaging science and technology.
- Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), is published bimonthly and is the repository for peer-reviewed papers that utilize modern optical technology for improved health care and research.
- Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS (JM3), is published quarterly and contains peer-reviewed papers on technologies necessary to address the needs of the electronics, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems, and photonics industries.
- Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS), is an online-only, peer-reviewed journal that covers the concepts, information, and progress of the remote sensing community.
- Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP), is an online-only, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the fabrication and application of nanostructures that either generate or manipulate light from the infrared to the ultraviolet regimes.
- SPIE Letters Virtual Journal, is an open access, online collection of rapid communications, covering topics of significant originality and interest, from the six journals published in the SPIE Digital Library.
[edit] Digital Library The SPIE Digital Library publishes online technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually. In September 2009, SPIE launched an e-book program in beta on the SPIE Digital Library containing selected SPIE Press titles dating from 1989 to the present. [edit] SPIE Press SPIE Press is the academic book publishing arm of the Society. It was formally established in 1988, though several books had been published before this time. The types of books published by SPIE Press are: - Tutorial Texts: stand-alone tutorials covering fundamental topics in optical science and technology at introductory and intermediate levels.
- Press Monographs and Handbooks: authoritative professional reference books, textbooks, and handbooks covering theory, state-of-the-art applications, and outlooks on topics of special interest.
- Field Guides: small-format, spiral-bound guides that include key definitions, equations, illustrations, application examples, design considerations, methods, and tips for use in the lab and in the field.
- Milestone Series: collections of seminal papers published by a variety of publishers covering significant discoveries and developments in optics.
[edit] SPIE Professional SPIE Professional is a quarterly magazine that covers industry insights, technology overviews, career trends, and provides informational articles for optics and photonics professionals. [edit] SPIE Newsroom The SPIE Newsroom covers industry news and technical articles organized by topic:
The type of content includes:
- Technical Articles
- Optics/Photonics News Headlines
- SPIE.TV
- Patent Reviews and Overviews
- SPIE Announcements
- SPIE Member News
- Product Updates
[edit] Courses SPIE provides educational coursework in various formats including: - Courses at Conferences
- CD-ROMs, DVDs and Videos
- In-Company Training Courses
[edit] Membership Includes 16,000+ professionals, students, and organizations worldwide. Membership entails conference, course and publication rate reductions, online journal and SPIE Professional access, as well as voting rights, Student Chapter formation, and access to fellow promotion, senior member promotion and positions of governance in SPIE. Other member functions include: - Visiting Lecturer Program
- Women in Optics
- BACUS Technical Group
- SPIEWorks employment website
- SPIE Fellows
[edit] See also [edit] References - Member Guide 2003, Bellingham, WA: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, p. 24.
- "SPIE launches two new e-journals", Bellingham, WA: SPIE, SPIE Professional January 2007, p. 27.
- "New grant funds student collaboration", Bellingham, WA: SPIE, SPIE Professional January 2007, p. 30.
- "Top notch research", Bellingham, WA: SPIE, SPIE Professional April 2007, p. 26.
- "Chapters reach out to communities", Bellingham, WA: SPIE, SPIE Professional April 2007, p. 35.
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