Wayne T. Padgett, SPE TC Chair
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As the new chair of the Signal Processing Education Technical Committee (SPE TC), I’m looking forward to a dynamic year of outreach. The SPE TC is pleased to welcome three new members this year, Rich Baraniuk, Lina Karam, and Gail Rosen. Rich Baraniuk has been heavily involved with the TC’s effort to partner with Connexions, which provides SPS members and the general public with free access of educational material in a variety of areas including signal processing.  The TC’s on-going partnership with Connexions is expected to be of great interest to a board audience.  Lina Karam is General Co-chair of the 2011 IEEE DSP/SPE Workshop to be held in Sedona, Arizona, and Gail Rosen is SPE Technical Program Co-chair.  Plans for the 2011 Workshop are moving forward, and the preliminary call for papers is available at this website.  The paper submission deadline is 10 August 2010, so please mark your calendar.  We sincerely invite you to share your latest educational innovations at the workshop!

The Transactions is co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The nominee must be a member in good standing of IEEE and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He/she must have served as an associate editor or in a management capacity for an archival journal.

The duties include the identification of associate editors to serve across the scope of the journals, management of the day-to-day operations of the journals; identification of areas that require strengthening and working with the sponsoring societies to achieve that goal.

The Editor-in-Chief reports to the Steering Committee of the journal. He/she chairs the Editorial Board for the publication. The terms of service will be from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013.

Please submit nominations to Ali H. Sayed, Vice President-Publications, IEEE Signal Processing Society, via sayed@ee.ucla.edu by April 1, 2010. Your nomination must include a brief biography of no more than one page. The biography should include the web address that contains the candidate’s CV (do not send complete curricula vitae with the nomination). Also include a statement of the candidate’s experience as an associate editor or other publication management position. Should the nominee so desire, a statement of interest of up to 500 words may be included stating the nominee’s interest and special qualifications for the position.

Desirable qualities: Solid technical accomplishments, leadership, integrity and ethical standards, organizational and management skills, and eagerness to continue to move the journals forward to higher levels of accomplishment.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

1. Names of candidate and nominator
2. A short IEEE-style biography
3. A narrative supporting statement from the nominator
4. A personal statement by the candidate (optional, limited to 500 words)

Now in its fourth successful year, the IEEE RWEP program continues to seek high quality, hands-on, team-based projects that focus on real-world problems whose solutions benefit society.  The projects are expected to make the related IEEE fields of interest more relevant to first-year students, and to illustrate how the work of engineers and computer scientists directly impacts society.

Completed projects will be disseminated by IEEE for use by faculty in the development of first-year courses.  Projects should be stand-alone modules requiring a combined 10 to 30 hours of lecture and laboratory instruction, and should be easily replicated at institutions worldwide with reasonable cost and effort.  Authors of completed projects will receive a $10,000 award from IEEE.  Submissions are open to all faculty members who teach Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering Technology at a university that grants degrees in EE, CE, CS, BE and/or EET programs. Initial abstracts are due by 31 March, 2010.  Complete details regarding the call for proposals are available online and inquiries can be made by email.

The Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) aims at illuminating and exploring signal processing challenges in communications and networking, and can be situated at the intersection of the IEEE Signal Processing (SPS), Communications (COMSOC), and Information Theory (IT) Societies.

The SPCOM TC is pleased to welcome three new members: Huaiyu Dai from the North Carolina State University, USA, Amir Leshem from the Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and Zhi Tian from the Michigan Technological University, USA. In addition, the membership of the following members has been renewed: Tim Davidson, Daniel Palomar, Mats Bengtsson, Akbar Sayeed, Hamid Sadjadpour, and Zhengdao Wang. The members that are stepping down are Franz Hlawatsch, Anna Scaglione, and Zhengyuan (Daniel) Xu. We would like to thank them for their valuable contributions.

The SPCOM TC and the SAM TC joined forces in organizing two joint sessions at ICASSP 2010: SPCOM-L2 Distributed Estimation in Sensor Networks and SAM-P6 Sensor Networks I: localization and Cooperative Communication. See the ICASSP10 technical program for more detailed information.

The flagship conference of the SPCOM TC is the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC). This year’s SPAWC10 will be held June 20-23, 2010, in Marrakech, Morocco, chaired by Mounir Ghogho from the University of Leeds of UK and Ananthram Swami from the U.S. Army Research Lab. Plenary talks will be given by Gerhard Fettweis, Georgios B. Giannakis, Andrea Goldsmith, Nikos Sidiropoulos, and Qing Zhao.

For more information on our TC, please visit the SPCOM TC’s webpage.

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Other SPS Sponsored Publications

Thomas Kailath

The Frontier of Knowledge Awards honor fundamental disciplinary or supradisciplinary advances in a series of basic, natural, social and technological sciences, and also recognize creative activity of excellence in the classical music of our time.

The 2010 IEEE Control Systems Award is being presented to Graham Clifford Goodwin. IEEE selected Prof. Goodwin to receive the award, “for contributions to the theory and practice of digital and adaptive control.”

The 2010 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award is being presented to Alan N. Willson, Jr. IEEE selected Prof. Willson to receive the award, “for exemplary teaching and curriculum development and for inspirational guidance of PhD. student research in the area of circuits and systems.”

Description from the publisher: Steganography, the art of hiding of information in apparently innocuous objects or images, is a field with a rich heritage, and an area of rapid current development. This clear, self-contained guide shows you how to understand the building blocks of covert communication in digital media files and how to apply the techniques in practice, including those of steganalysis, the detection of steganography. Assuming only a basic knowledge in calculus and statistics, the book blends the various strands of steganography, including information theory, coding, signal estimation and detection, and statistical signal processing. Experiments on real media files demonstrate the performance of the techniques in real life, and most techniques are supplied with pseudo-code, making it easy to implement the algorithms. The book is ideal for students taking courses on steganography and information hiding, and is also a useful reference for engineers and practitioners working in media security and information assurance.

Please visit the book’s website for table of contents and more information.

Proposals are open to all regions. A letter of intent should be submitted electronically to the ICME Steering Committee Chair, Prof. Wenjun Zeng, at zengw@missouri.edu by March 15, 2010. Full proposals should be submitted electronically by May 15, 2010 for 2011 proposals and July 1, 2010 for 2012 proposals. A strong (internationally renowned) and highly motivated organizing committee is expected.  Proponents are strongly encouraged to present their proposals at the next ICME Steering Committee meeting to be held during ICME 2010 in Singapore. Visit here for further details on the submission requirements and schedule.