Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in near Infrared Spectroscopy: My Contributions to near Infrared Spectroscopy:

At the recent EAS Symposium held in Somerset, NJ, USA, Mark Westerhaus was presented with the EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Mark kindly agreed to let us publish his talk so we are delighted to reproduce it below. I think you will find it to be a very clear explanation of the reasons for various elements of old and new software treatments that many of us have used in the past. Congratulations on this well-deserved award Mark!! Ed.