Society News

The Vice President-Awards and Membership, John Treichler, is seeking nominations for the position of Chair of the Fellow Reference Committee. Nominations should be received no later than 30 September 2013.

Your vote is important! The election of Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2014 through 31 December 2016) and the Directors-at-Large for Regions 7 & 9 and Region 10 (term 1 January 2014 through 31 December 2015) of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors is now open. Ballots must be received at IEEE no later than 30 August 2013 in order to be counted.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) appointed José M. F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University) to serve as 2014-2016 SPS Awards Board Chair. He succeeds John Treichler (Raytheon Applied Signal Technology), who has held the post since January 2011.

With GoogleApps@IEEE, members will gain a robust capability for messaging with access to e-mail, calendar, and contact services from any Internet-connected computer. In addition, members will also have access to Google Drive, Google+, and Picasa. With the use of these services there are varying degrees of privacy.

GoogleApps@IEEE will be available to members at no additional cost. Users will have access to: