The Industry DSP Technology Standing Committee (IDSP-SC) is now focusing on emerging signal processing applications and technologies from industry and practice perspectives.

The AASP TC had its second annual TC meeting on October 18, 2011, discussing subcommittee establishment for EDICS, ICASSP reviews, awards, news letter, fellow nomination, webpage, nominations and elections, and AASP Challenges, as well as the next WASPAA in 2013.

Please provide nominations for Regional Director-at-Large and Member-at-Large. Nominations must be received no later than 1 March 2012.

As a special benefit of IEEE membership, for the month of January, IEEE-USA is offering a free eBook, The Best of IEEE-USA Todays Engineer: On Consulting, Volume 1. This book has 65 pages of content for consultants, on how to start a local consultants network, how to make sure consultants get paid for their work; how to make the transition from marketing to paid consulting; and a sample consulting contract.

The cell maintains its function via an elaborate network of interconnecting positive and negative feedback loops of genes and proteins that send different signals to a large number of pathways and molecules. These structures are referred to as gene regulatory networks. Current research in cancer biology indicates that global, systemic molecular interactions are pivotal in understanding cellular dynamics and designing intervention strategies to combat genetic disease.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is searching for a post-doctoral scientist to work with Professor S. Prasad in computational imaging theory, including image characterization via statistical information and Bayesian analyses. Considerable opportunity exists for interaction with scientists both at UNM and at several national/federal laboratories in the area engaged in a variety of imaging applications.

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at The George Washington University (GW) invites applications from individuals interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, for a fully-supported program concentrating in signal and image processing. The program combines doctoral study at The George Washington University with the applied research effort of Corbin Company’s Technical Services Division supporting the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) located in Ft.

The IEEE SPS is now inviting proposals to host the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in 2017. ICASSP is solely sponsored by the Signal Processing Society with the Technical Program supported by all of the Signal Processing Society Technical Committees. ICASSP takes place in the spring (March – May) each year and is typically 5 days of programs.

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Alexander Bertrand (University of Leuven) ``Signal processing algorithms for wireless acoustic sensor networks``, Advisor: Prof. Marc Moonen (2011). This thesis contains several distributed adaptive signal or parameter estimation algorithms for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Several chapters in the thesis focus on (but are not limited to) the specific application of WSNs for audio acquisition, often referred to as wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs).