| Type | Professional Organization |
|---|---|
| Founded | July 1, 1955 |
| Location | Bellingham, Washington USA |
| Origins | Formerly: the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, and later as the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| Key people |
President: Dr. Katarina Svanberg CEO: Dr. Eugene Arthurs |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Focus | Optical related technology |
| Method | Conferences, Publications, Trade Shows |
| Members | 16,000+ |
| Motto | Connecting Minds. Advancing Light. |
| Website | spie.org |
SPIE, an international society for optics, photonics, and imaging engineering, advances an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.
Founded in 1955, the Society organizes international forums for interdisciplinary information exchange, trade exhibitions, and continuing education programs. SPIE publishes peer-reviewed scientific journals, conference proceedings, monographs, tutorial texts, field guides, and reference volumes online in the SPIE Digital Library and in print.
Open-access content includes researcher-authored technical articles in the SPIE Newsroom, the quarterly magazine SPIE Professional, selected book chapters and articles from the SPIE Digital Library, and the peer-reviewed journals SPIE Letters and SPIE Reviews.
In 2010, the Society provided more than $2.3 million in support of scholarships, grants, and other education programs around the world.
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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.
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.
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:
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:
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.
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:
SPIE Professional is a quarterly magazine that covers industry insights, technology overviews, career trends, and provides informational articles for optics and photonics professionals.
The SPIE Newsroom covers industry news and technical articles organized by topic:
The type of content includes:
Numerous RSS Feeds are available on different topics.
SPIE provides educational coursework in various formats including:
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: