February 2011

The Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) recently distributed a call for proposals to host ICME 2013 and ICME 2014, to be held in summer of both years. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000.

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The IEEE SPS Chapters may receive up to $3,500 per chapter annually to support travel expenses for SPS appointed Distinguished Lecturers and other invited speakers. In addition to the DL program, SPS Chapters may receive up to $500 per chapter annually to support coffee breaks or other small social gathering in conjunction with meetings.

On behalf of the Awards Board and the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), John Treichler in his role as Vice President - Awards and Membership announced the winners of the 2010 SPS major awards. These SPS members will receive the Society’s prestigious 2010 awards during ICASSP 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) invites nominations for the position of Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security for terms starting 1 January 2012.

The nomination period for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2011 Prize Paper Award is open. Any paper published in T-MM in 2008, 2009, or 2010 is eligible.

Nominations should include:

Wen Dong (MIT, Media Laboratory),  “Modeling the Structure of Collective Intelligence” Advisors: Alex (Sandy) Pentland (2010)

IEEE has launched 11 tutorials in seven languages as part of its online training and support program for the IEEE Xplore® digital library.

The self-paced tutorials are presented on the IEEE client services Web page as voice-narrated Flash videos with complete downloadable transcripts in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Zhefeng Li (University of Delaware), “Space-time/frequency Coded MIMO and Cooperative OFDM Systems”, Advisor: Prof. Xia, Xiang-Gen (2010)