.

The IEEE SPS Chapters may receive up to $3,500 per chapter annually to support travel expenses for SPS appointed Distinguished Lecturers and other invited speakers. In addition to the DL program, SPS Chapters may receive up to $500 per chapter annually to support coffee breaks or other small social gathering in conjunction with meetings.

On behalf of the Awards Board and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), John Treichler in his role as Vice President - Awards and Membership announced the winners of the 2010 SPS major awards. These SPS members will receive the Society’s prestigious 2010 awards during ICASSP 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security for terms starting 1 January 2012.

The nomination period for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2011 Prize Paper Award is open. Any paper published in T-MM in 2008, 2009, or 2010 is eligible. Nominations should include:

1. Nominator
2. Bibliographic information for the paper
3. A short statement of support (less than 500 words) explaining the rationale for the nomination.

Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness. The winner will be announced at ICME 2011 in July.

Wen Dong (MIT, Media Laboratory),  “Modeling the Structure of Collective Intelligence” Advisors: Alex (Sandy) Pentland (2010) Human problem solving process can be described as a stochastic process of interacting agents. By observing many groups solving a wide variety of problems, we can determine the relationship between problem space structure and the solution process.

IEEE has launched 11 tutorials in seven languages as part of its online training and support program for the IEEE Xplore® digital library. The self-paced tutorials are presented on the IEEE client services Web page as voice-narrated Flash videos with complete downloadable transcripts in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. The focus of the tutorials is to highlight various features of IEEE Xplore, including the new search system, which navigates more than two million technical documents currently found in the digital library.

Zhefeng Li (University of Delaware), “Space-time/frequency Coded MIMO and Cooperative OFDM Systems”, Advisor: Prof. Xia, Xiang-Gen (2010) Space-time/Frequency Coding (SFC) can achieve the spatial and multipath diversities for a MIMO-OFDM system by coding across multiple antennas and subcarriers. This thesis presents a family of space-time-frequency codes that achieve both full spatial and multipath diversities by using Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (OSTBC).

Since 2006, deep learning—a new area of machine learning research—has emerged impacting a wide range of signal and information processing work.

The Industry Digital Signal Processing Technology (IDSP) Standing Committee was formed in 1999 to promote industry participation in the Signal Processing Society and ICASSP, in particular. Fields of interest span those covered by the Technical Committees of the SP Society but special emphasis is placed on practical industry applications of signal and image processing.