April 2012

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Valuable information for IEEE volunteers, including IEEE Technical Activities volunteers, is available on the IEEE Web site.

The 37th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) was held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, on March 25 - 30, 2012.

Win a kindle fire and a free trip to Seattle!

A data and signal analysis competition is being organized. Winners will present their work and receive their award during the Workshop MLSP 2012.

More details can be found at the following websites:

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

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This special issue is devoted to the memory of the late Alex B. Gershman whose contributions are a cornerstone of advances in array processing made over the last three decades. Alex was an active member of IEEE SPS.

Alex’s seminal work is a pillar, which holds strong and steady the rising volume of sensor array processing research. He solved longstanding problems and made fundamental contributions to sensor array processing that inspired many others to follow suit, and paved the way for a continuous influx of new and innovative techniques.

The DISPS TC has the mission "to promote and support activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society in the areas of: i) Design, development and implementation of signal processing systems; ii) Design of algorithms with implementation in mind and iii) the Design of software tools and methodologies to support the design of signal processing systems".

Aiming to make the most of the fast-growing volume of digital data, the Obama Administration today announced a “Big Data Research and Development Initiative.”

By improving our ability to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data, the initiative promises to help solve some the Nation’s most pressing challenges.