Please be advised that IEEE gauges the vitality of an OU by tracking how many meetings are reported during the year through vTools. If an OU reports "0" meetings for three consecutive years the OU/Chapter is placed on a dissolution list that is reviewed at the November Board Meeting.

A new online portal is available for ordering Membership Development (MD) materials. Volunteers now have the ability to customize the quantities and items included to support in recruiting new members, retaining those whose membership has lapsed, and recovering former members.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society continues to track emerging technical areas. As a result, the Society has decided to create two new SPS Technical Interest Profile (TIP) Code categories in the fields of Data Science and Autonomous Systems to keep pace with the expanding technical disciplines.

The fourth edition of SS12 ASIA: AGE OF INNOVATION 2018, a Coding and Making Challenge organized by Madras IEEE Education Society, was hosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management) Green University Town, Homagama, Colombo, Sri Lank.

The marriage of ever-more sophisticated signal processing and wireless communications has led to compelling “tele-presence” solutions—at the touch of a dialing key.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Newsletter is pleased to announce a new twist on an existing feature: how members receive tables of contents (TOCs) alerts for their favorite SPS Publication(s).

Three new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2019 and will serve until 31 December 2021. Eight candidates competed for the three Member-at-Large positions.