IEEE Signal Processing Society: Celebrating 75 Years of Remarkable Achievements

It is our great pleasure to introduce the first part of this special issue to you! The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has completed 75 years of remarkable service to the signal processing community. When the Society was founded in 1948, we couldn’t imagine, for instance, how wireless networks of smartphones would be able to connect us easily at all times, or that an image processing algorithm would be able to detect cancer in a few seconds. Those are just simple examples of the immense technological progress over the past 75 years, which became possible thanks in great part to the dedicated work of professional members of the SPS.

It is our great pleasure to introduce the first part of this special issue to you! The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) has completed 75 years of remarkable service to the signal processing community. When the Society was founded in 1948, we couldn’t imagine, for instance, how wireless networks of smartphones would be able to connect us easily at all times, or that an image processing algorithm would be able to detect cancer in a few seconds. Those are just simple examples of the immense technological progress over the past 75 years, which became possible thanks in great part to the dedicated work of professional members of the SPS.

Celebrating 75 Years

A special issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine was published 25 years ago to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the SPS. To celebrate the 75th anniversary, we have focused on what has happened during the previous 25 years in the field of signal processing, in addition to the main perspectives considering both societal and technical aspects in different domains covered by our Society. In response to an open call for papers, we received 41 white paper submissions. Among those, 18 were selected and invited to be considered for publication upon submission of a full version. Finally, 11 were accepted for inclusion in this first part of the special issue, while the remaining ones will appear in the upcoming second part.