The IEEE Biometrics Council is proud to announce that the edition of its newsletter for spring 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 Stephen Sadler (Transportation Security Administration, USA) who discusses the Transportation Worker Identification Credential Program;
• a short article “Ridge Based Palmprint Matching” by Jifeng Dai, Jianjiang Feng, and Jie Zhou;
• NIST news on biometrics;
• the conference report for BTAS 2012;
• the agenda of forthcoming biometrics conferences;
• a call for nominations for the new IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award;
• a number of pointers to upcoming challenges, new databases, white papers, IEEE Biometrics Compendium, etc.

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