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.

Both IEEE President-Elect candidates are Signal Processing Society members. All eligible SPS members have the opportunity to vote in the IEEE President-Elect election.

J. Roberto Boisson de Marcahas been a faculty member since 1978 at Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where he has held several leadership positions, including Associate Academic Vice President. He is the Founding President of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society and a member of both the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

De Marca is Chair of the IEEE Future Directions Committee. From 2008 to 2010, he was Chair of IEEE’s Humanitarian Technology Challenge program committee. De Marca was the 2008 Vice President of IEEE Technical Activities, the 2006 IEEE Secretary, and the 2000 President of the IEEE Communications Society. He was also a candidate for IEEE President-Elect in the 2009 election.

Tariq S. Durrani is a research professor in the electronic and electrical engineering department at the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He joined the university as a lecturer in 1976, and from 1990 to 1994, he headed its electronic and electrical engineering department. He was also deputy principal of the university from 2000 to 2006. Durrani is a Fellow of the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

In 2010 and 2011, he was Vice President of IEEE Educational Activities. Durrani served as President of the IEEE Engineering Management Society in 2006 and 2007 and was Vice Chair of IEEE Technical Activities for Region 8 in 2003 and 2004. He was President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 1994 to 1995. Durrani was Founding Chair of the IEEE Periodicals Review Committee in 1998 and 1999.

The nominated Chapters will be evaluated based on the following Chapter activities, programs and services during the past year:

1. Technical activities (e.g. technical meetings, workshops and conferences, tours with industry)
2. Educational programs (e.g. courses, seminars, student workshops, tutorials, student activities)
3. Membership development (e.g. programs to encourage students and engineers to join the society, growth in chapter’s membership, member advancement programs)
4. Annual IEEE Chapter report submitted by the chapter.

Selection will be based on the nominator’s submission of the nomination formand the annual IEEE Chapter report.

Nominations should be submitted to Theresa Argiropoulos (t.argiropoulos@ieee.org), who will collect the nominations on behalf of John Treichler, Vice President-Awards and MemberNominations. Nominations must be received no later than 15 October 2012. Further information on the Chapter of the Year Award, as well as the nomination form can be found on the Society’s website at this link.

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FEBRUARY 2012

It is my great pleasure and honor to be the successor of Jason Williams as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE SLTC Newsletter. Both Jason and the previous Editor-in-Chief Mike Seltzer kept the bar very high, establishing a top class newsletter, which is now much more than just a list of conference or jobs announcements. Thus, we’d like to thank the previous editorial team, volunteer reporters, invited and guest contributors, IEEE administrative team, and whole speech and language processing community for supporting this newsletter to be a phenomenal success within the IEEE Signal Processing Society. We’d like to especially thank Jason Williams and Chuck Wooters who have spent many hours trying to get the new team up to the speed.

We believe this Newsletter has contributed significantly in establishing a culture within the IEEE Speech and Language Processing community. Our goal is move this one step further in line with the current vision, towards a more interactive and dynamic Newsletter content. We will greatly appreciate your ideas, opinions, and thoughts to this end.

In this issue we are pleased to provide another installment of brief articles representing a diversity of views and backgrounds. This issue includes 12 articles from 14 guest contributors, and our own staff reporters and editors.

We believe the newsletter is an ideal forum for updates, reports, announcements and editorials which don’t fit well with traditional journals. We welcome your contributions, as well as calls for papers, job announcements, comments and suggestions. You can submit job postings here, and reach us at speechnewseds [at] listserv (dot) ieee [dot] org.

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The IEEE Canada Student Activities Committee congratulates Harshul Srivastava as the winner of the Larry K. Wilson Regional Student Activities Award 2012. Harshul is the Chair of the University of British Columbia Student Branch, and the Award Committee found his accomplishments exemplary.

This Award consists of a customized plaque and three years complimentary membership in the IEEE

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Candidates do need to contact us, so that we will submit projects to a committee that will accept up to 6 people in our area, according to the quality of the candidates. Accepted candidates will be founded by a grant that can last from 18 months to 36 months. In addition, candidates can apply for a permanent professor position in the Institute of Computing at UFAM.

1. Requirements
Candidates should speak English and also be able to write scientific reports (articles). As a member of the research group, it is expected hard work, enjoying the idea of working in group and be interested in making friends in Brazil. They should have already published at least one paper in top venues related to network security area and/or wireless network area. Speaking Portuguese is not mandatory. The candidates will work with professors, master students and PhD students that do speak English. As the candidates will be living in Brazil for a period, they will probably be interested in learning Portuguese, but this is not mandatory.

2. Emerging Technologies and System Security Group at UFAM:
The Emerging Technologies & System Security Research Group [ETSS] is a research group from the Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. Our research focus is to identify emerging technologies and conceive new security solutions that will have a high impact on innovation with industrial relevance. ETSS works on research and development on behalf of government and industry. To keep pace with the rate of change in emerging technologies, we conduct a large amount of research in existing and emerging technology areas including wireless sensor network, emergency network architectures, mobile system and security system.

We collaborate extensively with government, academia and private sector entities including Nokia Institute, Ericsson Research, Telecom ParisTech, INF Infineon, Fraunhofer Institute for applied Information Technology, Instituto Superiore Mario Boella, Université Pierre et Marie Curie -LIP6; Telecom ParisTech; ENS – Ecole Normale Supérieure; Technische Universität München; Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisboa.

The group also offers a good infrastructure for research, including financial support for maintaining labs. The group is currently composed of 04 professors and it is part of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at UFAM, that offers a master degree and a PhD course. The professors also work on three undergraduate programs (Computer Science, Information Systems and Computer Engineering). The group has currently 04 PhD students and 15 master degree students.

3.       Grant:
Accepted candidates will receive R$ 14,000.00 for financial support by the first month and R$ 7,000.00 per month. An extra payment of R$7,000.00 will be made each year.  All free of taxes. The total grant for the first year is then R$ 105,000.00 and the total grant for the second year is R$ 91,000.00. This is all free of taxes. This amount is enough to cover your living expenses in Manaus (Amazonas) considering the cost of life in the city/region. Grants will be paid for a period from 18 months to 36 months.

Interested candidates should send an e-mail to Eduardo Souto (esouto*at* icomp.ufam.edu.br)