20 May 2013 was a key event in the calendar of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE). This year Vince Poor, distinguished member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton, was inducted as a Corresponding Fellow of the RSE, for his distinguished contributions to communication theory, signal processing and allied fields. The election to the Fellowship also recognised his contributions to electrical engineering education through his celebrated teaching and mentoring.

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The Summer 2013 edition of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee’s Newsletter is now online. It includes a number of announcements from the TC chair, as well as a number of articles collated by the editorial boarded.

The Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM TC) welcomes new members, and several SAM members and nominees received IEEE Signal Processing Society awards. CAMSAP2013 will be held at the Radisson Blu Resort in Saint Martin on December 15-18, 2013.