Society News

The IEEE Signal Processing Society has enjoyed healthy financial operations for a number of years, thanks to the tremendous amount of effort from volunteers and the support from the staff. In order to leverage its financial strength to serve members and invest for the future prosperity of the signal processing community, the SPS Board of Governors has set aside a sizable amount of funds for 2011 and is working on the 2012 budget to explore various initiatives to expand member benefits and values, to outreach to signal processing communities worldwide, and to enhance the visibility of the SPS. For example, the Society has approved to allocate a substantial annual fund to support students and researchers in needs from developing countries to attend ICASSP and ICIP. Fifty-one SPS members who are ICASSP 2011 authors have been selected as the first group of travel grantees.

New IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program Page Published

In order to provide a more accessible resource for Section/Chapter Distinguished Lecturer program information, a new IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program web page has been created to assist Sections/Chapters looking for a Distinguished Lecturer.

Resources for Promoting e-Membership in Your Section

In response to a call for a lower cost membership option for individuals residing in developing economies, IEEE began offering the new electronic membership (e-Membership) option for the 2011 renewal year.

Call for Nominations: 2012 Distinguished Lecturers

The IEEE Signal Processing Society invites nominations for the 2012 Class of SPS Distinguished Lecturers (DLs). The deadline for nominations is 1 June 2011.

The nomination form can be found online at this link, along with the current list of DLs and other general information about the program.

Update on vTools.Meetings and vTools.Surveys

vTools.Meetings http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main version 3.1.0 was released on 23 February 2011.

Upcoming Distinguished Lectures – April 2011

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A Job Marketplace for Signal Processing Professionals

Through our recent ICASSP surveys we have learnt that roughly 25% of ICASSP attendees are students, and that many of them are interested in meeting potential employers. Many industry members go to ICASSP to recruit potential employees. As an initiative to better meet the need of SP industry and serving our student members, we decided to investigate having a job marketplace in the Society that allows employers to post job announcements for industry or academic positions, both full-time and internships, in various areas of signal processing.

SPS Malaysia Chapter Organizes ICSIPA’2011

The International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA 2011), organized by SPS Malaysia Chapter, is the second in the series and will be held in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

SPS Members Receive IEEE Awards

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Upcoming Distinguished Lectures – March 2011