Technical Committee News

Policy in the Cloud: Congress Looks at the Federal Role in Cloud Computing

While the idea of shared or outsourced network infrastructures and services may be old hat in the IT community, Cloud Computing represents a revolutionary technological leap forward for policy-makers in Washington and in the states,

who must grapple with new issues related to security, privacy, law enforcement and more using an increasingly outdated structure of laws and regulations.

Activity Update from the MMSP TC

The Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) promotes the advancement of multimedia signal processing technology with special emphasis on the interaction, coordination, synchronization, and joint processing of multimedia and multi-modality signals.

Activity Update from the BISP Technical Committee

The BioImaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee (BISP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS) promotes activities within the broad technical areas of biomedical and biological signal and image processing.

“Trends” Expert Overview Sessions Revived at ICASSP 2011: Part 2

At the 2011 IEEE ICASSP in Prague, the program committee revived the idea of expert overview sessions called “Trends,” which are summary talks authored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committees and presented by their keynote experts.

Starting from its September issue, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine publishes a serious of three columns summarizing the “Trends” expert sessions. As the second part, the column articles in the November issue allow readers to access the summaries of the following Trends sessions.

SLTC Newsletter - Autumn 2011

News from the SPCOM TC

The interests of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) span those areas situated at the crossroads of the IEEE Signal Processing (SPS), Communications (COMSOC), and Information Theory (IT) Societies.

Activity Update from the MLSP TC

We would like to take this opportunity to share with you some recent news and work related to our MLSP-TC. The Machine Learning for Signal Processing Techinical Committee (MLSP TC) is at the interface between theory and application, developing novel theoretically-inspired methodologies targeting both longstanding and emergent signal processing applications.

Recent Patents in Signal Processing (November 2011) - Radar Signal Processing