March Madness - The Good Kind [President's Message]

The raison d'être for each of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's (SPS's) two major conferences, the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) and the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), is a forum for the exchange of technical information through contributed, invited, and tutorial sessions. However, these meetings, and particularly ICASSP, also serve another important function; they are venues for administrative and planning meetings for the Society's myriad boards and committees. Following are some highlights, decisions, and plans from the administrative meetings at ICASSP in Dallas last March.