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SOCIETY NEWS

Nominations Open for 2017
IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards

he IEEE Signal Processing Society
(SPS) Awards Board is now accepting nominations for all Society-level awards, from paper awards to the
major society awards. Nominations are
due by 1 September 2017 and should be
submitted to Theresa Argiropoulos
(t.argiropoulos@ieee.org), who will
collect the nominations on behalf of
Awards Board Chair H. Vincent Poor.
Nominators should take into consideration the need for representation of
diversity in the nomination slate when
submitting their nominations. Detailed
information and nomination/endorsement forms for SPS awards can be found
online. Full details on the nomination
process are available at http://signal
processingsociety.org/get-involved/
awards-submit-award-nomination.
Please note that, this year, the Society
will be testing new awards software, so
nominations for the Technical Achievement Award must be submitted online
through this link: https://ieee.secureplatform.com/a/page/society_awards/
ieeesignalprocessingsocietyawards.
All other awards will be handled
though the normal submission process
and should be submitted to Theresa
Argiropoulos via e-mail.
■ Who can nominate: Nominations are
accepted from any Society individual member, Society committee, or
Society board. Nominations from
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2017.2697105
Date of publication: 11 July 2017

individual members can be supported by up to two endorsement forms
from two other individual members.
■ Which Awards: Each year, the SPS
honors outstanding individuals who
have made significant contributions
related to signal processing through
the Society Award, the Industrial
L e a d e r Awa r d , t h e I n d u s t r i a l
Innovation Award, the Technical
Achievement Award, the Education
Award, the Meritorious Service
Award, and the Meritorious Chapter/
Regional Service Award. The Society
also recognizes outstanding publications in SPS journals and the magazine through the Best Paper Award,
Donald G. Fink Overview Paper
Award, Sustained Impact Paper
Award, Signal Processing Letters Best
Paper Award, Signal Processing
Magazine Best Column Award,
Signal Processing Magazine Best
Paper Award, and the Young Author
Best Paper Award.
Nominations for the Best Paper
Award and Young Author Best Paper
Award should refer to the papers published in the following Society journals:
■ IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in
Signal Processing (JSTSP)
■ IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio,
Speech, and Language Processing
(T-ASLP)
■ IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (T-IP)
■ IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensics and Security (T-IFS)
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IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (T-SP).

SPS awards changes
Over the past few years, the Society
approved some procedural changes to
the SPS Awards program, including
some new changes approved late last
year. Please note that these changes
are in effect for the 2017 nomination
period. The changes are intended to
provide an effective means to encourage award nominations in all categories from the SPS community at large,
including individuals, technical committees, editorial boards, and other
major boards, except in the cases of
conflict of interests. Technical committees and boards may pass on to
the Awards Board one or multiple
nominations that they receive for
all awards.
The Society created a new award
called the Meritorious Regional/
Chapter Service Award, which focuses
on outstanding contributions of any
member of the Society to regional
activities of the SPS. As a result of the
creation of this award, the judging criteria for the Meritorious Service Award
was redefined. The Meritorious Service
Award judging criteria now reflects that
judging will be based on recognizing
outstanding efforts and contributions
aimed at promoting the technical and
educational activities of the entire SPS,
i.e., that benefit the membership of the
SPS at large.

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