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Section: Publications & Resources

At its 20 June 2015 meeting, the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board approved adding the rebate schedule to Section 9.0.E of the MGA Operations Manual. Including the rebate schedule in the MGA Operations Manual will ensure members and volunteers have direct access to the official MGA approved rebate definition, eligibility requirements, and schedule. The rebate schedule has also been streamlined to remove repetitive information and clarify areas such as activity bonus for affinity groups and rebates for members in geographic units outside of Sections.

Section: Publications & Resources

IEEE 2nd World Forum on Internet of Things - Technologies, Applications and Social Implications is a unique event for industry leaders, academics and decision making government officials. This event is designed to examine key critical innovations across technologies, which will alter the research and application space of the future.

Section: Publications & Resources

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) is honored to announce the elevation of 13 of its members to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. These members have demonstrated outstanding professional performance, exhibited professional maturity through long-term experience, and established themselves as leaders in their respective IEEE-designated fields of interest. Senior Member is the only membership grade that is eligible to be nominated for IEEE Fellow. The new Senior Members of the IEEE Signal Processing Society are:

Section: Publications & Resources

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) announced the 2016 Class of Distinguished Lecturers. Six colleagues were honored and they are: Jan Allebach (Purdue University); Yoram Bresler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Peyman Milanfar (Google Inc.); Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University); Paris Smaragdis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); and Josiane Zerubia (INRIA).

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Chapter Dates Distinguished Lecturer Lecture Details South Brazil (Sao Paolo) November 3-4, 2015 Akihiko (Ken) Sugiyama (NEC Corp., Japan) Lecture topic: "25 Years of Audio Coding: How we arrived at audio playback on iPhone and its underlying technology".

Section: Publications & Resources

Jiang, Huaiguang(University of Denver) “Synchrophasor Sensing and Processing based Smart Grid Security Assessment for Renewable Energy Integration”, (2015) Advisor: Zhang, Jun With the evolution of energy and power systems, the emerging Smart Grid (SG) is mainly featured by distributed renewable energy generations, demand-response control and huge amount of heterogeneous data sources.

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Agarwal, Siddharth (Missouri University of Science and Technology) “Computational intelligence based complex adaptive system-of systems architecture evolution strategy” (2015), Advisor: Dagli, Cihan H. The dynamic planning for a system-of-systems (SoS) is a challenging endeavor. Large scale organizations and operations constantly face challenges to incorporate new systems and upgrade existing systems over a period of time under threats, constrained budget and uncertainty.

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In the last months, several discussions have been raised up by the NSA statements about backdoored cryptosystems up to the announcement about the need for post-quantum cryptography (PCQ).

Section: Publications & Resources

As an outreach effort to its members, the Signal Processing Society (SPS) sponsored a social reception for members of the Quebec City Chapter. The young professionals attending IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2015) were also invited. The IEEE Young Professionals Program (formerly known as GOLD – Graduates Of the Last Decade) is intended for IEEE members who have received their first professional degree within the last fifteen years and aims at helping young professionals evaluate their career goals, polish their professional image, and create the building blocks of a lifelong and diverse professional network.

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Professor Alfred Leo Maria Fettweis, one of the pioneers of digital signal processing passed away on August 20, 2015 in Bochum, Germany. Our community has lost a giant who made seminal contributions not only to engineering, but also to science. His ideas were visionary and far ahead of his time.