IEEE is pleased to offer a new electronic membership (e-Membership) option for the 2011 membership year. To help make IEEE membership more affordable to more potential members, the new e-Membership option will be offered to both new and renewing, higher-grade members who live in one of 153 countries where the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is under US$15,000 (based on data provided by the United Nations).

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As the first step, embracing IEEE’s global strategy, SPM has decided to experiment with a translated reprint edition of SPM. The first edition in simplified Chinese was completed and the printed version was distributed to ICIP attendees in Hong Kong.

Xiaosong Lou (University of Southern California), “Peer-to-peer content networking with copyright protection and jitter-free streaming”, Advisor: Kai Hwang, 2009 P2P video streaming system has become popular among Internet users in recent years.

IEEE has announced a new subscription option available only to IEEE members. IEEE Member Digital Library Basic provides IEEE members with three new full-text article downloads every month, plus the ability to rollover unused downloads for 12 months, for only US$15 per month. IEEE Member Digital Library Basic contains the same top-cited content as the standard IEEE Member Digital Library, including all IEEE journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. Members who need a more robust option for research can still subscribe to the standard IEEE Member Digital Library, which provid

IEEE's International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2011) will be hosted in Barcelona, Spain from July 11 – 15, 2011.

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Post-doc and PhD research assistantship positions in the areas of digital signal processing and speech processing are available in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. Potential candidates should have a solid background in signal processing, preferably in the speech processing area. The candidate will be working on research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health.