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Fellow Teresa H. Meng has been selected as an Academician of the Academia Sinica, the highest honor given to scientists in Taiwan. Based in Taipei, Academia Sinica is Taiwan’s national science academy. It supports research in a variety of fields, including mathematics, physical and life sciences, humanities, and social sciences.

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The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) held a long-range strategic retreat during IEEE ICIP 2010 to seek attendance and input from a variety of Society, industrial, and local leaders to bring to the event fresh points of view. How to better serve our members was the central theme of the discussion in the retreat, and several items were identified as key new initiatives that SPS can consider to take on to offer more benefit and value to our members. SPS leadership and EXCOM will sort through the list with careful thinking to plan for the execution and implementation in the coming years. The SPS members are also invited to provide input to this SPS long-range planning and implementation initiative.

Princeton University physicist and mathematician Ingrid Daubechies won the Franklin Medal for Electrical Engineering for discovering a revolutionary data compression technique.