Society News

The IEEE Signal Processing Society appointed Alex Acero (Mircosoft Corporation) as Director-Industrial Relations and Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland) as Director-Membership Services. Each Director’s appointment will run until 31 December 2012.

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The 2010 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is being presented to Sadaoki Furui; the IEEE Control Systems Award is being presented to Graham Clifford Goodwin; and the IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award is being presented to Alan N. Willson, Jr.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the positions of Director-Industrial Relations and Director-Membership Services. The term for each Director position will be three years (1 January 2011-31 December 2013).

The IEEE Division IX Division-Director Nominating Committee invites nominations for the position of Division IX Director. Division Directors are elected to the IEEE Board by members of Societies they represent.  They first serve as Directors-elect before becoming Directors and Members of the IEEE Board.  Division Directors represent the membership of his/her Division in the IEEE Assembly as a voting delegate.