Image of the Month: Costs of sequencing a human genome
1 December 2014
A team led by Stanford electrical engineers has compressed a completely sequenced human genome to just 2.5 megabytes – small enough to attach to an email. The engineers used what is known as reference-based compression, relying on a human genome sequence that is already known and available. Their compression has improved on the previous record by 37 percent. The genome the team compressed was that of James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA more than 60 years ago
Silver Jubilee of the Signal Processing Chapter, IEEE Singapore Section
1 December 2014
The signal processing chapter of the IEEE Singapore Section was founded by me in 1989 with over twenty petitioners. It was established first as a special interest group in 1988 and subsequently in 1989 it was upgraded to the chapter status.
Contests in Signal Processing and Machine Learning
1 December 2014
During the last couple of months, a few new Signal Processing and Machine Learning contests were initiated. Some of the ongoing ones with a strong…
Read moreActivity Update from the MLSP Technical Committee
1 December 2014
The Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC) is involved with activities that support the use of Machine Learning techniques for Signal Processing problems. The scope of this TC is fairly wide, ranging from traditional machine learning and pattern recognition, to approaches that combine material from both disciplines. Under the scope of the MLSP TC we find areas such as source separation, graphical and kernel methods for time-series, Bayesian non-parametrics, and matrix and tensor factorizations among many more.
What should we learn from... Evolutionary Computing
1 December 2014
In this series, we introduce topics outside of the signal processing world from which we believe signal processing researchers and practitioners can…
Read moreRecent Patents in Signal Processing (December 2014) – Image Denoising
1 December 2014
For our December 2014 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of image denoising. The section below covers patents granted recently for…
Read moreUCSF Aims to Bridge "the Last Mile" in Precision Medicine
1 December 2014
Precision medicine is a new model of health care which gains insights from an individual's history and biology patterns, to create more precise diagnosis and treatment, at a lower cost. Precision medicine is a big data problem. Despite the completion of Human Genome Project more than ten years ago and the development in the field as a whole, precision medicine is still not a routine practice of medicine due to the lack of appropriate technical work and software platforms.
SPS Announces 2015 Class of Distinguished Lecturers
1 December 2014
The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) announced the 2015 Class of Distinguished Lecturers. Five colleagues were honored and they are: Hynek Hermansky (Johns Hopkins University); Visa Koivunen (Aalto University); Hamid Krim (North Carolina State University); Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Institut Pasteur); and Min Wu (University of Maryland).
New IEEE Internet of Things Initiative (IoT) Newsletter Announced
1 December 2014
The IEEE Internet of Things Initiative (IoT) announced it has launched its new IEEE IoT eNewsletter, a bi-monthly online publication highlighting…
Read moreMember in the Spotlight: Le An
1 December 2014
In this series, we introduce a member of our Society by means of an interview.
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