January 2012

A warm greeting from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and sincere wishes for a prosperous new year! Starting in 2012, the Society is offering the lowest-ever annual membership for $20. This e-membership package includes the FREE electronic delivery of the Society's flagship publication. All members receive substantial discounts on registration fees for the Society’s solely owned conferences and workshops, and reduced, member pricing for print subscriptions of SPS journals.

Congratulations to the following seven new SPS Chapters created in 2011!

• Brasilia Chapter
• Chengdu Society
• Morocco Chapter
• Pune Chapter
• Oakland-East Bay Chapter
• South Brazil Chapter (Southern Region)
• Thailand Chapter

More related information can be found at the SP Society's IEEE Chapter Resources website.

Did you know? IEEE SPS provides travel support for local chapters to invite SPS Distinguished Lecturers. See a list of SPS 2011 and 2012 Distinguished Lecturers, and bookmark this link for upcoming SPS Distinguished Lectures near you.

The IEEE SPS is now inviting proposals to host the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2017.

Beginning January 2012, several of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Committees (TCs) have new Chairs taking leadership roles.

Links and more information about the 13 TCs in the Society can be found at this link.

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates 53 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2012. Nominations are now being accepted till March 1, 2012, for the IEEE Fellow Class of 2013.

The IEEE SPS journals are highly ranked in the latest journal citation report.

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