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The Awards Board Chair, Jose' Moura, is seeking nominations for the position of Chair of the Fellow Reference Committee. The term of appointment is three years (1 January 2017-31 December 2019). The position is responsible for chairing the Fellow Reference Committee, which is responsible for evaluating nominations for IEEE Fellow that are referred for review by the IEEE Fellow Committee. The Fellow Reference Chair is also a member of the SPS Awards Board.

For our July 2016 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with hardware and signal processing issues of video processing. The section below covers patents granted recently for video enhancement, noise removal from videos, watermarking techniques, visual quality measurement and new video processing circuits.

Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google, presented how to understand data using deep learning, at Spark Summit 2016, in San Francisco, CA.

Sayler, Andy (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Securing Secrets and Managing Trust in Modern Computing Applications” (2016) Advisor: Dirk Grunwald

The Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee for each Technical Committee is currently seeking nominations for new Members, as well as the Vice Chair position for some Technical Committees. Nominations for both positions should be submitted directly to each Technical Committee’s Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee. Please provide the name, contact information and biography with the nomination.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 10 of its members to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. These members have demonstrated outstanding professional performance, exhibited professional maturity through long-term experience, and established themselves as leaders in their respective IEEE-designated fields of interest.