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This month's featured IEEE News source is IEEE Spark. IEEE Spark is an online publication intended to inspire students ages 14-18 to learn more about engineering, technology, and computing, and raise excitement about careers in these disciplines.

All new higher-grade IEEE members are invited to participate in a New Member Orientation session designed to help members get the most out of their membership.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society welcomes proposals from prospective organizers of 2014 summer schools under the S3P (Seasonal Schools in Signal Processing) Program.

S3P seasonal schools are typically either summer schools or winter schools, and are geared towards providing graduate students, early stage researchers, and practitioners with background on selected topics in signal processing.

The IEEE Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation.

Last call for student project entries for 2013 Smarter Planet Challenge: Student Projects Changing the World: deadline 1 November

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Venue: SAMSUNG Research Institute Brazil, Campinas, SP.

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Three new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2014 and will serve until 31 December 2016. The successful candidates are: Geert Leus, Helen Meng, and Fernando Pereira. Two new Regional Directors-at-Large, Douglas O’Shaughnessy and Hong-Yuan Mark Liao, will take their seats on the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors and Membership Board beginning 1 January 2014 and will serve until 31 December 2015.