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For our July 2015 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with various applications of adaptive filtering. The section below covers patents granted recently for reducing blocking effect and ringing noise, radio frequency spektrum analysis, filter bank implementation, signal amplifying, low complexity filtering, magnetic fluid analysis, signal canceling and filter representation.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks applications that propose research studies that extend experimental protocols beyond the range of acoustic psychophysical research studies widely performed today. This will require design of algorithms and research studies that validate the potential benefits from these novel approaches to acoustic signal processing.

The special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE in July is the second issue focusing on reconfigurable systems. In the first special issue (vol. 103, no. 3, 2015) introduced by eNewsletter in June, the foundational concepts are addressed. In this special issue, the editors focus on the basic concepts discussed in the first issue by considering more advanced applications, the extension of reconfigurability to other phenomenologies/domains, and the impacts of selected emerging technologies.

As a result of recent advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology, as well as the emergence of synthetic bacteria and lab/process-on-a-chip techniques, it is now possible to design chemical “circuits”, custom organisms, micro/nanoscale swarms of devices, and a host of other new systems at small length scales, and across multiple scales (e.g., micro to macro)

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 22 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. Senior Member is the only membership grade that is eligible to be nominated for IEEE Fellow.

For our June 2015 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with various applications of image inpainting. The section below covers patents granted recently for image segmentation, image enhancement, mobile authentication, texture analysis and image compression.

The special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE in April is the first of two special issues providing an in-depth treatment of the subject of reconfigurable systems as enabled through advancements in the electrical engineering field, as well as the approaches we use to manage complexity in systems having millions of fixed and programmable elements. This issue serves as an immersion into the subject of reconfigurable systems, both for the purposes of gaining familiarity with essential theoretical elements, the key developments in the field, and the potential future directions (not just the next few years, but decades beyond the present).

SPS has changed its nominating process for all Society Awards from paper awards to the major society awards. We now call for nominations from any society individual member, society committee, or society board. Nominations from individual members can be supported by up to two endorsement letters from two other individual members. The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for the 2015 major SPS awards.

As a special benefit to IEEE members for the month of May, IEEE-USA will offer "Doing Innovation – Book 4: What It Takes To Be an Innovator" -- by Gerard H. “Gus” Gaynor. This e-book focuses on a critical element of innovation -- the Innovator. What do innovators bring to an organization? What characteristics and attitudes do they display? Available 1 May through 15 June.