February 2014

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(source: IEEE-USA)

On 18 Dec., the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter report to the President about opportunities for education technologies to improve educational outcomes and lower costs in higher education.

Heather Roberta Pon-Barry (Harvard University), “Inferring Speaker Affect in Spoken Natural Language Communication”, Advisor: Prof. Stuart M Shieber (2013)

At the 25 November 2013 IEEE Board of Directors meeting a revision to the IEEE Code of Ethics was approved.

Please find the following activity updates of the AASP-TC: new members, Signal Processing Magazine Special Issue, Conference and Workshops, AASP Challenges, and its job market page.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for several journals for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2015.

Nominations must be received no later than 28 February 2014.

SPS is looking for a volunteer(s) to serve as a member in its Information Technology Committee. The deadline for applying is Feb 21 2014.

The University of Edinburgh is advertising a number of 5 year fellowships that are expected to evolve into open ended tenured positions.

A postdoctoral fellow position is available for March 1, 2014 in the department of Medicine (division of Neurology) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) ‐ in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The successful applicant will be a contributing member of the Pharmacoepidemiology in