November 2011

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) announced the 2012 Class of Distinguished Lecturers. Five colleagues were honored and they are: Tülay Adali (University of Maryland); John Apostolopoulos (Hewlett-Packard Labs); Yonina Eldar (Israel Institute of Technology); Ton Kalker (Hewlett-Packard Labs); and Pierre Moulin (University of Illinois-Urbana).

The Society Chapters Listing Report provides contact information for those Society Chapters whose chapter chair position is currently active.

 This roster is available on the Technical Activities Roster page at:  http://www.ieee.org/go/ta_roster.  In order to access this roster you will need to login using your web account.

Wondering if your 2- or 4-year university program is actually developing the desired knowledge, skills and abilities in graduates? The Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Departments Heads Association (ECETDHA), with the support of the test development group at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and funding from the IEEE, has developed a normative assessment exam

Li Deng, the EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), in representing his entire SPM editorial team, would like to share some thoughts with all SPM readers in this departing eNews article and he would also like to take this opportunity to report some new initiatives from SPM. His editorial team took a unique approach to running SPM and their approach turned out to be quite successful. Li also uses this article to express his special, wholehearted thanks to his IEEE colleagues and to introduce Prof. Abdelhak Zoubir, the new editor-in-chief of SPM.

The Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (DISPS TC) promotes and supports activities of SPS in the several areas including (i) design, development and implementation of signal processing systems, (ii) design of algorithms with implementation in mind, and (iii) design of software tools and methodologies to support the design of signal processing systems.

The Electronic Communications Laboratory within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida invites applications for non-tenure track positions at the Senior Engineer level.

The breadth of topics in signal processing continues to grow, propelled by advances in digital signal processing theory as well as in new application domains. At the 2011 IEEE ICASSP in Prague, the program committee revived the idea of expert overview sessions called “Trends,”

which are summary talks authored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and presented by their keynote experts.

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