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SPS Announces 2018 Class of Distinguished Lecturers, the Signal Processing Data Science Distinguished Lecturer and the New Distinguished Industry Speaker Program.

As a follow up to the message sent last week, we are excited to announce that ICASSP 2018 will be held from 15-20 April 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and we are now accepting papers! We are very excited about the level of support and enthusiasm received by SPS members and the global community of this flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

As a follow up to the message sent last week, we are excited to announce that ICASSP 2018 will be held from 15-20 April 2018 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and we are now accepting papers!

The nomination deadline for the Awards Board and the Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee positions is being extended to Thursday, 12 October 2017.