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Four SPS members have been selected to receive prestigious IEEE Medals in 2010. They are: Ray Dolby (Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA) for the IEEE Edison Medal; John M. Cioffi (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) for the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; Ronald Schafer (Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA) for the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal; and Alfonso Farina (SELEX-Sistemi Integrati, Rome, Italy) for the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technologies and Applications.

IEEE SPS provides travel support for local chapters to invite SPS Distinguished Lecturers. And if you are interested in organizing a new SPS chapter, or participating in activities in a SPS local chapter near you, please check out Local Chapter Resources.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) announced the 2010 Class of Distinguished Lecturers.  Five colleagues were honored and they are: Sheila Hemami (Cornell University, NY); Shrikanth Narayanan (University of Southern California, CA); Antonio Oretga (University of Southern California, CA); Venu Veeravalli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Il); and Abdelhak Zoubir (Darmstadt University of Technology, GERMANY).

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the Vice President- Awards & Membership Officer position for the term 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2013.

The EURASIP and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Greek Chapter jointly organized a full-day event in October 2009 at the University of Athens: the inaugural "Greek Signal Processing Jam''. The event was envisioned as an opportunity to bring this community together, attract new talent to signal processing, and expose all to some of the latest developments in the broad area.

John M. Cioffi and H. Vincent Poor have been elected International Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering of the United Kingdom, two of only three engineers worldwide to be so elected this year.  They were inducted into the Academy at its New Fellows Dinner on 9 November 2009, in London, UK.

An exclusive article by Petar Djuric, SPS Vice President-Finance, on Society's finances and many efforts for bringing additional values to its members, including expanded access to SPS publications, enhanced digital publications, new conference events and member discount in registration, and travel support to students and distinguished lecturers.

from IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board The IEEE MGA Leadership Training Initiative Ad Hoc Committee is proud to announce the release of the Quick Start Training (for Geographic Unit Leaders), a new training program designed for Geographic Unit Officers in their first 30 days in office. Quick Start Training was developed to help new Officers more quickly understand the roles and responsibilities of their positions and begin the process of member engagement.

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