The IEEE Biometrics Council is proud to announce that the edition of its newsletter for Winter 2013 is now available. It contains a number of updates on biometric conferences/workshops and other IEEE activities related to biometrics. Namely, this edition of the newsletter contains:

• an interview of Hanspeter Thür (Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, Switzerland) who discusses Biometrics Security and Privacy Protection;
• a short article "Sketch Based Face Recognition" by Scott Klum, Brendan Klare, Hu Han, and Anil Jain
• the agenda of forthcoming biometrics conferences;
• an announcement of the elevation to IEEE fellow of Jonathan Connell and Jim Wayman;
• the call for nominations for the European Biometrics Research and Industry Award 2013;
• the obituary of Evangelia (“Litsa”) Micheli-Tzanakou;
• the announcement of new biometrics challenges and databases.

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