January 2017

All Section officers and Chapter/affinity group chairs have been contacted with a reminder that the following annual reports are required to be eligible for a rebate:

• SPS Big Data Special Interest Group Chair Patrick Wolfe on recommendation engines in Information Week. Read more.

IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Membership Nikos Sidiropoulos invites nominations for the positions of Chief Editor, Signal Processing Repository (SigPort) and Chief Editor, Resource Center for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2018. Nominations must be received no later than 31 March 2017.

The IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) publishes peer-reviewed brief articles that provide a rapid and concise account of innovative ideas regarding the theory, design, and applications of all aspects of control engineering. Key features of L-CSS:

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IEEE members and volunteers using GoogleApps@ should take note of the following upgrades to Google+ and Google Hangouts:

With help from members in Region 10, a new app to help IEEE members identify IEEE events or conferences has been released. The app will use the geolocation feature of the user's phone to identify events happening nearby. Using the search functionality allows the user to find events by:

Follow the links on the right side of this page to view more news around IEEE. This month's featured IEEE News source is IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter. The December edition of the IEEE Smart Grid Newsletter is a special issue on smart grid technology and renewable energy perspectives. The articles cover IEEE2030.5 for Distributed Energy Renewables, DOD Energy Policy, Smart Grid Technology, and What’s Next in 2017.

As a special benefit to IEEE members for the month of December, IEEE-USA E-Books will offer the fourth book of IEEE-USA’s "Shaping an Engineering Career" e-book series. Author Dr. Joseph R. Bumblis, an IEEE Senior Member and retired associate professor of computer engineering, guides members on developing career paths in electrical and computer engineering. This e-book is available 1 December to 15 January.

IEEE Section Chairs and Section Membership Development Chairs receive a monthly email notification regarding newly joined members in your Section. The current list of new members (those who joined in the past 30 days) is available through SAMIEEE, your volunteer analytics tool. The report provides member contact information: name, mailing address, email address, phone number, type of membership (traditional, e-membership), Societies joined, grade, and reasons for joining IEEE.