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Editor-in-Chief

Phil Laplante is the President of Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, a two-year,
private, college that focuses on technology training and re-training. Prior to this,
he was the founding dean of the BCC/NJIT Technology and Engineering Center in
Southern New Jersey. He was also Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Chair of the Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics Department at Fairleigh
Dickinson University, New Jersey. In addition to his academic career, Dr. Laplante
spent almost eight years as a software engineer designing avionics systems, a microwave
CAD engineer, a software systems test engineer, and a consultant.
He has written dozens of articles for journals, newsletters, magazines, and confer-
ences, mostly on real-time computing and image processing. He has authored 10 other
technical books and edits the journal, Real-Time Imaging, as well as two book series
including the CRC Press series on Image Processing.
Dr. Laplante received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering, and Computer Science, respectively, from Stevens Institute of Technology
and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and numerous other pro-
fessional societies, program committees, and advisory boards. He is a licensed profes-
sional engineer in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Dr. Laplante is married with two children and resides in Pennsylvania.

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