September 2011

The Stack Exchange series of Question and Answer web-sites recently launched the private beta of its Signal Processing site.

The aim is for DSP practitioners to pose questions and have them answered by the wider signal processing community.

The URL for the site is:

http://dsp.stackexchange.com/

The Stack Exchange format was popularized by the programming-related Stack Overflow site:

http://stackoverflow.com/

The second annual IEEE Day will be celebrated on 6 October 2011.

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Kapil Gulati (The University of Texas at Austin), “Radio Frequency Interference Modeling and Mitigation in Wireless Receivers”, Advisor: Prof. Brian L. Evans (2011)

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IEEE has announced the 2012 recipients of the IEEE Technical Field Awards. Signal Processing Society members were recipients of 5 of the 25 Technical Field Awards

and are marked with an asterisk below.

by Dr. Vitor Nascimento, Chair of SPS South Brazil Chapter

The IEEE SPS South Brazil Chapter was created at the end of 2010. It covers four Brazilian states (Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul).

New tutorials and transcripts expand IEEE training options for the IEEE Xplore® digital library IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, has launched 11 tutorials in 7 languages

as part of the organization’s online training and support program for the IEEE Xplore® digital library. The self-paced tutorials are presented on the IEEE client services Web page as voice-narrated Flash videos with complete downloadable transcripts in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center is a world-class research center sponsored by Intel Corporation, National Science Council, Taiwan Region and National Taiwan University. We are now opening 8 post-doctoral and 4 senior researcher positions to candidates specialized in Machine-to-Machine technology,

with a special interest in any of the following fields:

Fang Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), “Digital Image and Video Processing Using Subpixel Rendering”, Advisor: Oscar C. AU (2011)