June 2012

From THE INSTITUTE: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/briefings/election/two-nominated-for-2013-presidentelect

The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Fellows J. Roberto Boisson de Marca and Tariq S. Durrani as candidates for 2013 IEEE President-Elect. The two men, chosen by the board in November, are set to face off in the annual election this year. The winner of the election will serve as 2014 IEEE President.

The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for 2012 major SPS awards, including the Society Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the Education Award, the Meritorious Service Award, the Best Paper Award, Young Author Best Paper Award, Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award and Best Column Award.. Prospective nominators are encouraged to submit nominations well in advance of the deadline of 1 October 2012.

The school will be open to graduate students, Ph.D. students, post-docs, young researchers, senior researchers and practitioners. It will be held at University of Technology, Sydney - Sydney, Australia, July 2 through July 6, 2012.

Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) is part of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, aiming to promote and influence technical areas related to speech and language processing and (speech-to-speech) machine translation.

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Region 9 of the IEEE Signal Processing Society has seen a lot of new activity recently.

Since late 2010, four new chapters have been created in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Southern Brazil and Brasília). The chapter in Colombia is a few years older, and there are also chapters in Argentina, Guadalajara and Western Puerto Rico.

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