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A warm greeting from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and sincere wishes for a prosperous new year! Starting in 2012, the Society is offering the lowest-ever annual membership for $20. This e-membership package includes the FREE electronic delivery of the Society's flagship publication. All members receive substantial discounts on registration fees for the Society’s solely owned conferences and workshops, and reduced, member pricing for print subscriptions of SPS journals.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulates 53 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2012. Nominations are now being accepted till March 1, 2012, for the IEEE Fellow Class of 2013.

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The IEEE Boston Section and the IEEE Signal Processing Society presented an IEEE Milestone in Electrical Engineering and Computing to MIT Lincoln Laboratory for the “First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks, 1974 – 1982".

Li Deng, the EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), in representing his entire SPM editorial team, would like to share some thoughts with all SPM readers in this departing eNews article and he would also like to take this opportunity to report some new initiatives from SPM. His editorial team took a unique approach to running SPM and their approach turned out to be quite successful. Li also uses this article to express his special, wholehearted thanks to his IEEE colleagues and to introduce Prof. Abdelhak Zoubir, the new editor-in-chief of SPM.