The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 10 of its members to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. These members have demonstrated outstanding professional performance, exhibited professional maturity through long-term experience, and established themselves as leaders in their respective IEEE-designated fields of interest.

The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for all Society level awards, from paper awards to the major society awards. Nominations are due by 1 September 2016.

Ervin Sejdić and Murat Akcakaya are reporting on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Summer School on Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Big Data that took place in May 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh

For our July 2016 issue, we cover recent patents dealing with hardware and signal processing issues of video processing. The section below covers patents granted recently for video enhancement, noise removal from videos, watermarking techniques, visual quality measurement and new video processing circuits.

Jeff Dean, senior fellow at Google, presented how to understand data using deep learning, at Spark Summit 2016, in San Francisco, CA.

An important message from Rabab Ward, President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society about our Board of Governors NOT being in favor of the upcoming IEEE Constitutional amendment and the proponent and opposing views regarding this subject.