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In accordance with the Bylaws of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the SPS members elected, by direct ballot, THREE Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors (BoG) for three-year terms commencing 1 January 2011 and ending 31 December 2013, as well as FOUR Regional Directors-at-Large each for the corresponding regions: Regions 1-6 (US), Regions 7 and 9 (Canada and Latin America), Region 8 (Europe/Middle East/Africa), and Region 10 (Asia/Pacific Rim) for two-year terms commencing 1 January 2011 and ending 31 December 2012.

This year three Signal Processing Society members have been elected to IEEE level positions.

by Peyman Milanfar (Editor), 1 edition, CRC Press, September 2010

The IFS TC Nomination & Election Sub-Committee collected this year 18 candidatures from high caliber researchers and scientists, and 9 individuals have been elected.

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Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) TC elects new officers and names venue for MLSP 2011 conference.

On 29 April 2010, the Franklin Institute held its ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to honor Gerhard Sessler and James West with Franklin Institute medals for their invention of the practical electret microphone. The day before the ceremony, a symposium took place at Temple University in which Dr. Flanagan summarized some of the history of the electret microphone.