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Legislation to create 55,000 new STEM visas was defeated in Congress on 20 September, despite receiving strong bipartisan support.

While disappointing, the vote does not necessarily preclude further action on a STEM bill later this year.

For more details, please read the article by Russ Harrison at IEEE-USA today’s engineer.

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ChinaSIP is a new initiative launched by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) in 2012. Organizationally, the ChinaSIP initiative is overseen by a steering committee consisting of a balanced group of domestic colleagues and global leaders. The first ChinaSIP Summit and Conference will be held in Beijing in 6-10 July 2013.

Qualified student branches are encouraged to start preparing now to submit comprehensive, well justified applications and to ensure time to arrange the three required letters of support all by the November 15 deadline.

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SULFA is an open library for benchmarking video forensic algorithms.