Watch Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck, giving a presentation on how AI can be used to perform music composition

Read the IEEE BMC Newsletter including an interview with Christopher Boehnen, A research paper on adversarial biometric recognition as well as announcements and awards

For our February 2017 issue, we cover recent patents granted in the area of the analysis and application of active contours.

Kailkhura, Bhavya, Ph.D., SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, “Distributed inference and learning with Byzantine data” (2017) Advisor: Varshney, Pramod K. We are living in an increasingly networked world with sensing networks of varying shapes and sizes: the network often comprises of several tiny devices (or nodes) communicating with each other via different topologies.

Wilamowski, George Christopher. (The George Washington University), “Using Analytical Network Processes to Create Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting Cyber Security Metrics” (2017) Advisor: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas Cyber-attacks have escalated, causing decision makers to assess the trade-offs required to protect their organizations from such attacks.

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The Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has allocated $20,000 for Member-Driven Initiatives for the 2017 calendar year. The funding is open to all Signal Processing Society members, Chapters and Committees. However, all proposals must include the involvement of the local Chapter to encourage geographic development. Allocation of funds will be competitive.

Access application here.