Society News

In the awards ceremony of ICASSP 2012, the IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulated 53 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2012 and the SPS members who received the Society's prestigious 2012 awards.

Nominations are due 1 July 2012 for the 2013 IEEE Medals and Recognitions.

IEEE will soon be releasing the new IEEE business platform, also known as IBP. The new platform includes new web applications, a new user interface, and a new version of SAMIEEE.

The following SPS members will receive 2012 IEEE awards.

Clifford Carter has been selected as the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal recipient “for contributions to the fundamentals of coherence and time-delay estimation and to underwater acoustics signal processing.”
The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award will be presented to James Baker (Carnegie Mellon University) and Janet Baker (Saras Institute) “for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of automatic speech recognition.”