Thankfully, 2013 was a year of many accomplishments for SPS: SPS is experiencing steady membership growth; SPS made tremendous headway on our new open signal processing document database, SigPort; We're making strides toward facilitating knowledge and engagement among Student members; The expansion of SPS conferences is imperative to the visibility of SPS; Special Interest Groups (SIGs) were established; and our publications are flourishing.

In 2014, IEEE will mark its 50th Fellow Class. It represents decades of honoring IEEE Fellows whose extraordinary accomplishments have changed the world.

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Nominations for the Fellow Class of 2015 are now being accepted. The deadline is 1 March 2014.

The mission of the Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS TC) is to promote activities within the broad technical areas of information forensics and security.

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