| LC control no. | n 78088934 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| Variant(s) | S.P.I.E. SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering SPIE--the International Society of Optical Engineering International Society for Optical Engineering |
| See also | Predecessor: Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers Successor: SPIE (Society) |
| Located | Bellingham (Wash.) |
| Found in | Its Journal. Oct./Nov. 1962- Telephone call to SPIE, September 8, 1981 (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers became SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering in 1981) [inaccurate information; see note below regarding 1985 telephone call] Encyclopedia of associations, 1985 (SPIE--the international society for optical engineering, founded 1955; formerly: Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Telephone call to Elaine Cherry, director of publications of the Society, July 12, 1985 (legal name of the society is still Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers; its publications are still copyrighted by the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. The phrase "the international society for optical engineering" is a descriptive term and not part of the Society's name. SPIE has always been the acronym of the Society's names. The Society has changed its name only once, in the 1960's, from Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers to the present name: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) SPIE Advanced Institute on Transformations in Optical Signal Processing (1981 : Seattle, Wash.). Proceedings, 1984: title page (SPIE--the international society for optical engineering; SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers)) title page verso (copyright 1984, The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) Staring infrared focal plane technology, 1981: title page (SPIE--the international society for optical engineering, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, Wash.) International Optical Design Conference, 1994: title page (SPIE--the International Society of Optical Engineering) SPIE website, viewed September 17, 2007: home page (SPIE announces name change (June 6, 2007--SPIE has retired "the international society for optical engineering", The Society will be known as "SPIE") English Wikipedia, viewed August 22, 2023 (SPIE; formerly the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers, later the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers; an international not-for-profit professional society for optics and photonics technology, founded in California in 1955 under the name Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers; 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 (DBA) SPIE--the international society for optical engineering. In 2007, the Society ended its DBA, and is referred to simply as SPIE) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIE> |
| Invalid LCCN | n 81151709 |
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