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Abdelhak Zoubir Editor-in-Chief
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Z. Jane Wang Area Editor for eNews
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Conferences: A Catalyst for New Ideas
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t will be February 2013 when you receive this issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (SPM), but this editorial was written several weeks before the end of 2012. The last several weeks have been very busy and hectic for many of us, finishing paper submissions for the 38th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), to be held 26–31 May 2013 in Vancouver, Canada. We all felt relieved once the papers had been uploaded before the due date of 30 November 2012. For some colleagues, it is the start of even more hard work, reviewing dozens of papers in a short period so that the authors can get quality reviews on time and find Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2012.2235754 Date of publication: 12 February 2013
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE Abdelhak Zoubir, Editor-in-Chief — Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany AREA EDITORS Feature Articles — Marc Moonen, KU Leuven, Belgium Columns and Forum — Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK and Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology Special Issues — Fulvio Gini, University of Pisa, Italy e-Newsletter — Z. Jane Wang, University of British Columbia EDITORIAL BOARD Moeness G. Amin — Villanova University Sergio Barbarossa — University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Italy Helmut Bölcskei — ETH Zürich, Switzerland Yen-Kuang Chen — Intel Corporation Bernd Girod — Stanford University Michael Jordan — University of California, Berkeley Visa Koivunen — Aalto University, Finland Mark Liao — National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Hongwei Liu — Xidian University, China V. John Mathews — University of Utah Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2012.2236919
out whether they can present their work at the most comprehensive technical conference on signal processing and its applications and the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS). High-standing conferences such as ICASSP feature first-class plenary meetings, tutorials, exhibits, and lecture and poster sessions. It is a forum for many researchers seeking feedback for their work and for those who want to identify the most recent advances in signal processing theory and applications. For the editorial team of SPM, it is an important event in which potential experts are solicited to submit special issues or feature articles on these most recent advances, to be published in survey articles and brought bimonthly to the signal processing community.
Satoshi Nakamura — Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Kuldip Paliwal — Griffith University, Australia Béatrice Pesquet-Popescu — Télécom ParisTech, France H. Vincent Poor — Princeton University Ali Sayed — University of California, Los Angeles Victor Solo — University of New South Wales, Australia Sergios Theodoridis — University of Athens, Greece Min Wu — University of Maryland ASSOCIATE EDITORS— COLUMNS AND FORUM Rodrigo Capobianco Guido — University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Aleksandra Mojsilovic — IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Douglas O’Shaughnessy — INRS, Canada Gene Cheung — National Institute of Informatics Alessandro Vinciarelli — IDIAP–EPFL Michael Gormish — Ricoh Innovations, Inc. Xiaodong He — Microsoft Research Fatih Porikli — MERL Stefan Winkler — UIUC/ADSC, Singapore Carlos Óscar Sánchez Sorzano — UAM, Spain Azadeh Vosoughi — University of Rochester Danilo Mandic — Imperial College, UK Roberto Togneri — The University of Western Australia Lina Karam — Arizona State University
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For this issue, I invited Z. Jane Wang, area editor for the Inside Signal Processing eNewsletter (eNews), a monthly electronic newsletter that complements SPM, to report on eNews. The eNews lists, inter alia, selected signal processing conferences, an important source for signal processing practitioners who wish to identify conferences and workshops they may consider attending. In an era of extensive electronic communication, it is hard to keep up with all e-mails one receives. However, I encourage you to read eNews and welcome your suggestions for interesting new content.
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