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We are in the early days of 3D television and 3D movie proliferation. In the June meeting of the IEEE Signal Processing Santa Clara Valley Chapter, the participants exploited the next generation 3D television demo, with Ingemar Jansson (the founder of HDI US, Inc.) and Edmund Sandburg (the inventor of the HDI Laser 3D HDTV projection system).

Poor

The 2011 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award is being presented to H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. IEEE selected Prof. Poor to receive the award, "for pioneering contributions to multiple-access communications."

The election of Members-at-Large (term 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2013) and the new Directors-at-Large (term 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2012) of the IEEE SPS Board of Governors is now open. This year's election offers SPS members the opportunity to cast their votes via the web at https://eballot3.votenet.com/IEEE_SE. Ballots must be received at IEEE no later than 1 September 2010 in order to be counted.