In the awards ceremony of ICASSP 2012, the IEEE Signal Processing Society congratulated 53 SPS members who were recognized with the grade of Fellow as of 1 January 2012 and the SPS members who received the Society's prestigious 2012 awards.

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IEEE-USA invites IEEE members and volunteers to submit queries for eBooks they may want to write.

IEEE.tv has released a mobile app for Android and Apple iOS devices to allow IEEE.tv viewers to watch content on the go.

In this issue of the SAM newsletter, we report on recent awards related to our field and give an outlook on SAM 2012.

Speech and Language Technical Committee (SLTC) is part of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, aiming to promote and influence technical areas related to speech and language processing and (speech-to-speech) machine translation.

The 4th edition of the WIFS workshop will be held in Tenerife, Spain, on December 2-5, 2012. Tutorial proposal are due May 10, 2012; full paper proposals (4-6 pages) are due June 24, 2012; and demonstration proposals are due July 8, 2012.

The SPTM TC has elected 7 new members from 2012. The IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing 2011 (SSP2011) was successfully held in Nice France.

The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) elected two new officers who will start their terms on 1 January 2013.