Contributed by Christopher Wyatt (TC Liaison to eNews) The Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE-SPS) promotes activities within the broad technical areas of biomedical and biological signal and image

The human brain is organized into a collection of interacting networks with specialized functions to support various cognitive functions. At the micro level, the brain elements consist of single neurons, the amount of which often treads the realm of hundreds of billions, and possible connections between them numbering in the order of 10¹⁵. At a more macro level, the brain is parcellated into a number of regions, where each region accounts for the activity and coactivity of a population of neurons.

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Book 1 of this four-part E-Book series outlines a framework to help you prepare for your next presentation.

The July 2010 “Best of the Web” column of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine introduces the social signal processing network (SSPNet), a large European collaboration aimed at establishing a research community in social signal processing (SSP), the emerging domain aimed at bringing social intelligence in computers.

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The Vice President-Awards and Membership, Michael D. Zoltowski, is seeking nominations for the position of Chair of the Fellow Reference Committee. The term of appointment is three years (1 January 2011-31 December 2013). The position is responsible for chairing the Fellow Reference Committee and the Fellow Reference Committee is responsible for evaluating nominations for IEEE Fellow that are referred for review by the IEEE Fellow Committee. The Fellow Reference Chair is also a member of the SPS Awards Board.