IEEE Signal Processing and Communication Electronics (SPCE) Committee has elected the new officers for their term from January 1 2007 to December 31 2009. The new Chair is Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi, Fujitsu Ltd, Japan; The Vice Chair is Professor Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan; and the Secretary is Dr. Hung Nguyen, The Aerospace Corporation, USA.

Dr. Taniguchi received an Outstanding Service Award

At Globecom 2006 in San Francisco, an Outstanding Service Award from IEEE ConSoc was awarded to the newly elected SPCE Chair, Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi (right), for his continuous and outstanding contributions to the technical activities of the Communications Society, especially in the area of SPCE and for establishing the Signal Processing Symposium in ICC/Globecom. On the left is SPCE Past Chair Dr. Naohisa Ohta.

Dr. Taniguchi was elected as 2006 IEEE Fellow

At the ICC 2006 Awards Luncheon in Istanbul, Dr. Tomohiko Taniguchi, SPCE Vice-Chair, was presented with IEEE Fellow plaque for "contribution to speech coding technologies and development of digital signal processing (DSP) based communications systems".