Society News

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.

The Board of Governors (BoG) is the governing body that oversees the activities of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Four new Members-at-Large will take their seats on the Signal Processing Society Board of Governors beginning 1 January 2012. Three will serve for a three-year term until 31 December 2014 (Philip Chou, C.-C. Jay Kuo and Anna Scaglione) and the fourth (Fernando Pereira) will fill a vacant Member-at-Large position for the 2012 calendar year.

The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for 2011 major SPS awards. Prospective nominators are encouraged to submit nominations well in advance of the deadline of 1 October 2011.

IEEE has announced the 2012 recipients of the IEEE Technical Field Awards. Signal Processing Society members were recipients of 5 of the 25 Technical Field Awards

and are marked with an asterisk below.