With great sadness, the SAM and SPTM TCs say farewell to our esteemed colleague and beloved friend Alex Gershman who passed away on August 12, 2011. Alex was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1962. He studied Radiophysics at the Nizhny Novgorod State University and started his research career at the Gorky Radiotechnical Institute where he completed his PhD.

Li Deng, the EIC of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, would like to share some good news and a new honor with all IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM) readers (e.g. For the second year in a row, SPM has ranked number one among all 247 publications within the electrical and electronics engineering category worldwide and first among all 127 IEEE publications). He would also like to take this opportunity to share with SPS members some new initiatives from SPM, which promise to expand SPM impact further and in a more global scale.

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Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of Recent Patents on Signal Processing and Recent Patents on Medical Imaging

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The Publications Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society oversees the health and quality of our journals and enforces the highest scholarly and ethical standards. Prof. Ali H. Sayed, Vice-President Publications, is glad to share with the SPS members the wonderful news that our efforts towards enhanced quality and performance are paying off, as evidenced by various metrics. The 2010 results show that our IEEE Signal Processing Magazine continues to rank first in terms of its impact factor among all publications in the Electrical Engineering field for the second year in a row. The IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing ranks fifth among all EE Journals in Total Citations.

Since most members of IDSP-SC are selected from outstanding individuals in industry, its mission is mainly to promote emerging signal processing applications and industry technology and also to promote industry participation in the SPS and IEEE.

The SPS Awards Board is now accepting nominations for 2011 major SPS awards. Prospective nominators are encouraged to submit nominations well in advance of the deadline of 1 October 2011.