| IEEE Signal Processing Society

Member Discounts: expanded Professional Liability Insurance Program in Regions 1-7

Engage members with the “IEEE Into Focus” photo contest and invite them to share their IEEE stories. IEEE members are involved in a lot of interesting activities all over the world. Not just on the job, but also through mentoring, volunteer work, seminars, and other activities. The “IEEE Into Focus” photo contest gives them a chance to show off what they do by submitting photos of what they think best represents their experiences as an IEEE member.

Engage members with the "IEEE Into Focus" photo contest

Engage members with the "IEEE Into Focus" photo contest and invite them to share their IEEE stories. IEEE members are involved in a lot of interesting activities all over the world. Not just on the job, but also through mentoring, volunteer work, seminars, and other activities. The "IEEE Into Focus" photo contest gives them a chance to show off what they do by submitting photos of what they think best represents their experiences as an IEEE member.

Registration open for IEEEXtreme 9.0 Programming Competition: Deadline 12 October; IEEE members encouraged to proctor local students

Registration is now open for IEEEXtreme 9.0, scheduled for 24 October 2015. IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student members, supported by an IEEE Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE member, compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of programming problems.

Use vTools.Voting for your upcoming unit elections; updated Section Vitality Dashboard

vTools.Voting Just in time for 2016 officer elections, the vTools team has made some improvements to vTools.Voting to reduce confusion and enhance the user experience. Without listing every change, URLs have been corrected, date fields will be validated, more help text has been added, a sample email message has been provided, and the dashboard has been streamlined and sorted. Sections, Chapters, and Affinity groups can expect a 15-50% response rate, which gives you greater insight as to what your members want.

Announcing updates to geographic unit formation petition forms

The forms to petition MGA and other organizational units for the approval of new geographic units have recently been updated. The forms are used to propose the formation of a Section, Subsection, Geographic Council, Chapter, Affinity Group, Student Branch, Student Branch Chapter, or Student Branch Affinity Group. Updates to the forms include making the signature form page one, clarification and emphasis on the eligibility requirements, and updated resource links for when a petition organizer needs additional information.

It’s time to renew your IEEE membership for 2016

As of Sunday, 16 August, anyone joining IEEE becomes a member for the 2016 membership year. This is a valuable time to promote IEEE membership. Anyone joining now will receive the remainder of 2015 at no additional cost. Email Nicole Dewhurst, Member and Geographic Activities, at n.dewhurst@ieee.org for more information on how you can incorporate a "join" message in your communications Please be aware of the following timeline for renewals:

1 September: Renewing members will be able to access

IEEE Collabratec™ has officially launched

Although IEEE Collabratec has been freely available for over six months, the formal launch and marketing began on 21 September. You may have already started to see messaging within IEEE communication vehicles such as Society newsletters, membership emails, ieee.org, Spectrum advertising, and various online social mediums outside of IEEE. You may have already had a chance to connect and collaborate with IEEE members and technology professionals on IEEE Collabratec and are aware of its benefits.

Call for Nominations: IEEE Technical Field Awards

Nominations are due 31 January annually for the IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFAs).

Call for Nominations: Chapter of the Year Award

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter of the Year Award will be presented for the fifth time in 2016. The award will be presented annually to a Chapter that has provided their membership with the highest quality of programs, activities and services. The award will be presented annually in conjunction with the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to the Chapter’s representative. The award will consist of a certificate and a check in the amount of $1,000 to support local chapter activities.

Member in the Spotlight: Riccardo Lazzeretti

In this series, we aim to introduce society members and other experts of the signal processing field. This month, we are happy to introduce Riccardo Lazzeretti, Post Doc from Information Engineering and Mathematics Department of the University of Siena.

Subscribe to

Publications & Resources

Conferences & Events

Professional Development

Community & Involvement

About IEEE SPS

For Volunteers