Abstract :
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.