The IEEE Signal Processing Society Hyderabad Chapter has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Chapter of the Year Award! The Chapter of the Year Award will be presented at the ICASSP 2020 Awards Ceremony in Barcelona, Spain. The award is presented annually to Chapters that have provided their membership with the highest quality of programs, activities and services. 

IEEE Signal Processing Society Past President Ali H. Sayed, in his capacity as Chair of the Society’s Nominations and Appointments Committee, invites nominations for the IEEE Signal Processing Society Officer positions of Vice President-Conferences for the term 1 January 2021-31 December 2023 and Vice President-Publications for the term 1 January 2021-31 December 2023.  Nominations must be received no later than 14 FEBRUARY 2020.

Did you know the Society offers funding under the Member Driven Initiatives program for events that encourage involvement by SPS membership, including local chapters, universities, industry members as well as individual members?

Members and non-members can add Society membership when giving the Gift of IEEE Membership. Help someone in your life find their professional home in IEEE. Start by giving them the gift of IEEE Membership and consider adding a Society or two!  

The list of tables of contents (TOCs) are now available for December 2019. The TOCs are formatted to the style of its publication and offers links to the full issue on the front cover, as well as links to the individual articles in IEEEXplore®; simply mouse-over the article title and click on it.

The Signal Processing Society is pleased to announce the 5-Minute Video Clip Contest (5-MICC) at ICASSP 2020 in Barcelona (May 4-8). The topic chosen this year is Beamforming and the submitted video can cover any aspects of beamforming related areas. 

The Lifelong Learning Machines (L2M) program, a recent program from the Defense Advanced Research Agency or DARPA is funding the development of new machine learning systems that can learn continuously, adjust to new changes and apply previous knowledge to new situations.

Well, we're at the end of 2019. Most likely, this was like any other year for most of us. We had some successes and some failures, but overall, it's not a bad year. We're all getting ready for holidays, with our goals for 2020 slowly brewing in the back of our minds.