The PAMI TC Steering
Committee The PAMI TC Steering
CommitteeThe PAMI TC Steering Committee is intended to help ensure that the PAMI TC adopts good policies and avoids bad ones. The responsibility for policy is vested in the PAMI TC Officers, particularly the Chair; consequently, the Steering Committee serves an unofficial advisory capacity.
The Chair is expected to bring up all significant policy matters and proposals to the attention of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee is then free to offer advice, which the Chair will consider in due course.
The PAMI TC By-Laws currently call for an Executive Committee which serves in a formal capacity. However, that is not how the PAMI TC has operated since the 1980s. Instead, the informal Steering Committee is a more accurate formalization of the current governing practice.
It is an important task for the TC Chair to resolve this discrepancy, and to establish by-laws and governing practice that are fair, broad-based, and practical within the PAMI community. Thus, it is entirely possible that the Steering Committee will be formalized in the by-laws at some future date; or, on the other hand, it is possible that future policy will replace the Steering Committee with some other mechanism. These are issues for discussion within the TC. At the date of this writing (April 1999), the best policy is not yet clear.
Current members of the Steering Committee are: Jake Aggarwal, Ruzena Bajcsy, Kevin Bowyer, Eric Grimson, Robert Haralick, Tom Huang, Anil Jain, Avi Kak, Takeo Kanade, Rangachar Kasturi, Theo Pavlidis, Azriel Rosenfeld, and Linda Shapiro. There is no Chair, since the TC Chair serves that function.
Since the Steering Committee is unofficial and advisory, it is constituted by the Chair at his or her discretion. The members should be distinguished by a history of contribution and leadership within the PAMI community at the highest levels.
It is expected that former Chairs of the PAMI TC, and former Editors-In-Chief of the Transactions on PAMI, will be likely candidates for membership in the Steering Committee.
All deliberations of the Steering Committee are to be considered confidential, within the limits of the law and of the integrity of the PAMI TC. This is necessary to preserve the free expression of opinion by the members.
Other TC Committees: The Awards Committee, the Conferences Committee.
Last revised: 13 Apr 1999 by Steve Shafer