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. The bidders must submit the proposal to the Conference Services Manager three (3) months prior to the ICASSP being held five (5) years prior to the bidder’s chosen year.

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Li Deng, the EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), in representing his entire SPM editorial team, would like to share some thoughts with all SPM readers in this departing eNews article and he would also like to take this opportunity to report some new initiatives from SPM. His editorial team took a unique approach to running SPM and their approach turned out to be quite successful. Li also uses this article to express his special, wholehearted thanks to his IEEE colleagues and to introduce Prof. Abdelhak Zoubir, the new editor-in-chief of SPM.

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The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) PhD Links page is presently the most extensive collection of doctoral dissertations in all areas of signal processing. This thesis directory on the one hand enables a wider dissemination of the thesis documents and their research results, and on the other hand, it brings a wider recognition to research teams and to individual researchers in the role of supervisor. This is an open database where high quality PhD manuscripts in pdf file format can be admitted and it is freely accessible to everybody.

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While the idea of shared or outsourced network infrastructures and services may be old hat in the IT community, Cloud Computing represents a revolutionary technological leap forward for policy-makers in Washington and in the states, who must grapple with new issues related to security, privacy, law enforcement and more using an increasingly outdated structure of laws and regulations. Not the least of these issues is the potential that Cloud Computing offers governmental agencies to enhance their mission-oriented services while reducing IT-related costs in a time of significant budg

The Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee (MMSP TC) promotes the advancement of multimedia signal processing technology with special emphasis on the interaction, coordination, synchronization, and joint processing of multimedia and multi-modality signals.