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Three New SP Chapters Formed

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Malaysia Chapter Receives the Chapter of the Year Award

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter has been selected as the first recipient of the 2011 Chapter of the Year Award!

SPS Members Receive 2012 IEEE Awards

The following SPS members will receive 2012 IEEE awards.

Clifford Carter has been selected as the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal recipient “for contributions to the fundamentals of coherence and time-delay estimation and to underwater acoustics signal processing.”
The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award will be presented to James Baker (Carnegie Mellon University) and Janet Baker (Saras Institute) “for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of automatic speech recognition.”

Upcoming Distinguished Lectures – March 2011

Nomination of IEEE Fellows Class of 2013

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2011 Annual Reporting and Rebate Requirements

The 2011 Annual Reporting and Rebate cycle has begun.

Changes to the Geographic Unit Formation Petition Process

In November 2011, the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board approved a motion to revise the geographic unit formation petition process for Sections, Subsections, Chapters, and Affinity Groups, effective 1 January 2012.

The revisions were developed as a result of an audit of the current process that identified opportunities for more stringent risk management and compliance control. Petition organizers should be aware of the primary process revisions for petitions to form Sections, Subsections, Chapters, or Affinity Groups. They are:

Call for Nominations: Regional Directors-at-Large and Members-at-Large

Please provide nominations for Regional Director-at-Large and Member-at-Large. Nominations must be received no later than 1 March 2012.

2011 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Announced