February 2017

IBM Researcher, Kush R. Varshney on using signal processing for social good. Read more.

Watch Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck, giving a presentation on how AI can be used to perform music composition

Read the IEEE BMC Newsletter including an interview with Christopher Boehnen, A research paper on adversarial biometric recognition as well as announcements and awards

For our February 2017 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of the analysis and application of active contours.

Kailkhura, Bhavya, Ph.D., SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, “Distributed inference and learning with Byzantine data” (2017) Advisor: Varshney, Pramod K.

Wilamowski, George Christopher. (The George Washington University), “Using Analytical Network Processes to Create Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting Cyber Security Metrics” (2017) Advisor: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas

Overview
The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has allocated $20,000 for Member-Driven Initiatives for the 2017 calendar year. The funding is open to all Signal Processing Society members, Chapters and Committees. However, all proposals must include the involvement of the local Chapter to encourage geographic development. Allocation of funds will be competitive.

Access application here.

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:

Please visit the Conferences and Events page on the IEEE Signal Processing Society website for upcoming Lectures by Distinguished Lecturers.