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The Latest News, Articles, and Events in Signal Processing

The IEEE annual election begins on 15 August, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society is committed to ensuring that its members are prepared with sufficient information about the candidates in order to make their best informed decisions. 

Your vote is important! On 15 August 2017, the election of Regional Directors-at-Large for Regions 7 & 9 and Region 10 (term 1 January 2018 through 31 December 2019) and Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2018 through 31 December 2020) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors will open. Ballots will be mailed to SPS members. 

The Signal Processing Society (SPS) has 12 Technical Committees and 3 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that support a broad selection of signal processing-related activities defined by the scope of the Society.

The ICME 2018 organizing committee invites proposals for tutorials. ICME 2018 (http://www.icme2018.org/) will be held in San Diego, USA on July 23-27, 2018.

Microsoft revealed a new deep learning acceleration platform at the Hot Chips conference held in California.

The company has designed this new system for "real-time AI" meaning that it can process all data very fast and ultra-low latency. For more details, please read https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/microsoft-unveils-project-brainwave/.

 

Perreault, Logan Jared. (Montana State University) “On the Usability of Continuous Time Bayesian Networks: Improving Scalability and Expressiveness” (2017), Advisor: Sheppard, John W., https://www.cs.montana.edu/sheppard/

The world’s best Dota 2 player Dendi was defeated by an artificial intelligence (AI) in a 1v1 game during Valve’s yearly Dota 2 tournament on August 11, 2017. The bot was developed by OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company that aims to promote and develop friendly AI to benefit humanity as a whole. 

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Recent years have seen a rapid increase in the number of machine learning and signal processing contests. Some of those currently running include:

In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium. The 30-yearold, who became paralyzed after a bicycle accident in his teens, had triumphed in the tournament’s most futuristic event: a video-game-like race in which the competitors controlled their speeding avatars with just their minds.

Lecture Date: September 22-23, 2017
Chapter: Beijing
Chapter Chair: Qiuqi Ruan
Topic: Morphological and Variational Methods in Image Analysis and Computer Vision

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Speechmatics

Lead Speech Recognition Engineer

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contact: careers@speechmatics.com

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Lecture Date: December 26, 2017
Chapter: Israel
Chapter Chair: Arie Yeredor
Topic: Sparse Signal Recovery in Bilinear Inverse Problems

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October 9-13, 2017
Registration Deadline: September 15, 2017
Location: Verona, Italy
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EMR.AI Inc.

EMR.AI Inc., San Francisco, CA

RESEARCH SCIENTIST, SPEECH RECOGNITION

EML European Media Laboratory GmbH

Experience IT – Intuitive Technology: this principle guides our work at the European Media Laboratory. We are an IT enterprise, based in Heidelberg, Germany, focusing on the automatic conversion of speech into text for a variety of markets.

June 10-12, 2018
Location: Zagori, Aristi Village, Greece  
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