Each year, the IEEE Board of Directors confers the grade of Fellow on up to one-tenth percent of the members. To qualify for consideration, an individual must have been a Member, normally for five years or more, and a Senior Member at the time for nomination to Fellow. The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in IEEE’s designated fields. This year 49 SPS members were recognized with the grade of Fellow by the IEEE Signal Processing Society as of 1 January 2011.

IEEE has opened an office in India's Bangalore central business district. In Singapore, the IEEE Asia Pacific Operations Center recently moved from the Fleming Science Park to Fusionopolis.

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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.

IEEE Educational Activities officially launches the IEEE Expert Now e-Learning Outreach Program after a successful two-year pilot.