“The entire science and education dissemination chain can be viewed as a value chain that runs from the top of a small pyramid of a group whose main duty is to create original/novel ideas and results, to the middle range of developers who take concepts/ideas into some real systems, and finally to those who design products and interfaces used by millions……”, said by Dr. Ray Liu in the President’s Message. To learn more about this value chain and the vision of our new president of IEEE SPS, please read the column article in the January issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.