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Member News: Articles/Blog Posts

SPS Big Data Special Interest Group Chair Patrick Wolfe on recommendation engines in Information Week. Read more.
SPS Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee Past Chair Wade Trappe on autonomous vehicles in Robotic Tips.

Call for Nominations: Chief Editor, SigPort and Chief Editor, Resource Center

IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Membership Nikos Sidiropoulos invites nominations for the positions of Chief Editor, Signal Processing Repository (SigPort) and Chief Editor, Resource Center for a 3-year term starting 1 January 2018. Nominations must be received no later than 31 March 2017. SIGPORT SigPort is the Society’s online archive of manuscripts, reports, theses, and supporting materials. It collects technical material of interest to the broad signal processing community.

SPS Technically Sponsors New Publication in 2017: IEEE L-CSS

The IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS) publishes peer-reviewed brief articles that provide a rapid and concise account of innovative ideas regarding the theory, design, and applications of all aspects of control engineering. Key features of L-CSS:

Nikos Sidiropoulos

University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA

12 Nov.

How Biometric Authentication Poses New Challenges to Our Security and Privacy

Nasir Memon, Computer Science and Engineering NYU Tandon School of Engineering
The use of biometric data – an individual’s measurable physical and behavioral characteristics – isn’t new. Government and law enforcement agencies have long used it. The FBI has been building a biometric recognition database; the Department of Homeland Security is sharing its iris and facial recognition of foreigners with the FBI.

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01 Mar