Technical Committee News

The AASP TC had its second annual TC meeting on October 18, 2011, discussing subcommittee establishment for EDICS, ICASSP reviews, awards, news letter, fellow nomination, webpage, nominations and elections, and AASP Challenges, as well as the next WASPAA in 2013.

Beginning January 2012, several of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Technical Committees (TCs) have new Chairs taking leadership roles.

Links and more information about the 13 TCs in the Society can be found at this link.

Something really innovative has happened in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, where the third IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) took place in November 2011. The 2011 WIFS, in a partnership with the Brazilian Association of Forensic Experts of the Federal Police (APCF), included in its program a series of oral presentations, posters, and demos, which represent an effort of the forensics experts to call the attention of academics to problems they often face.

The Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee of the Signal Processing Society recently organized the 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security in picturesque Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, from November 29th to December 2nd, 2011.