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ISCApad #225

Saturday, March 11, 2017 by Chris Wellekens

2 ISCA News
2-1A message from our President Prof. Haizhou Li

Dear Members,

Welcome to the March edition of ISCApad!

First of all, I am glad to announce that ISCA has selected Professor Fumitada Itakura as the recipient of ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievements 2017 in recognition of his contributions in developing fundamental statistical algorithms in speech coding and recognition with broad and unparalleled impacts. Professor Fumitada Itakura will deliver a plenary speech in INTERSPEECH 2017. Congratulations to Professor Fumitada Itakura!

The ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement recognizes and honors an individual each year who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of speech communication science and technology. The award of ISCA Medal has been established since 1989. ISCA Board announces the recipient of the year in March. ISCA Medal is presented to the recipient by ISCA President at INTERSPEECH opening ceremony, when the Medalist also delivers a keynote speech.

March is also an important month in ISCA calendar.  ISCA holds Board election every two years as a renewable process.  2017 is the election year of ISCA. We will elect 8 new members to the Board in 2017. I would like to announce that we have concluded the nomination of ISCA Board election 2017 with 16 candidates. The ballot will start in March 2017. All members will receive an email invitation to vote. I write to thank you for your participation in the nomination process, and call for your participation again by casting your vote!

Finally, I would also bring to your attention the following deadlines for INTERSPEECH 2017 Stockholm, Sweden,
Tuesday, 14 March 2017  Paper submission deadline
Tuesday, 21 March 2017  Final paper submission PDF upload
I write to invite you to submit papers and to join INTERSPEECH in August 20-24. Together we will celebrate 'Situated interaction'!

Haizhou Li - ISCA President

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2-2Election of members for the Board of ISCA

Announcement:

Election of members for the Board of ISCA (4-year term: 2017-2021)


The ISCA Board currently has 14 members from 10 countries (see the full list below). Members are elected to the Board for a period of four years and no member may serve on the Board for more than two consecutive terms.  The following Board members will have served for two terms of four years in August 2017: Keikichi HIROSE, Haizhou LI, Douglas O?SHAUGHNESSY, and thus these three will leave the Board.  In addition,  Mark HASEGAWA-JOHNSON, Gérard BAILLY, Martin COOKE, Hynek HERMANSKY, and Kate KNILL will be ending their first term; Martin COOKE and Hynek HERMANSKY are not standing for re-election, while the other three will run for re-election.  Thus we have openings for eight members for the 2017-2021 term.

In accordance with the ISCA by-laws, elections to the Board will take place in April 2017.   We invite nominations from the ISCA membership.  Each nomination requires the support of three members of the Association and agreement from the candidate (e.g., by email).  The ISCA statutes specify a maximum of three Board members from any one country.  Each ISCA member will be asked to cast a anonymous ballot in the election, via a survey website.

Members elected to the Board will be expected to be responsible for one or more of the areas listed below assigned by the Board, to commit time to furthering the work of ISCA in their area (s), to attend the Board meetings that take place at each annual INTERSPEECH conference and to participate in additional virtual meetings during the year (via teleconference).  All candidates should be aware of these obligations and commit themselves to fulfilling them before agreeing to be nominated.

The Board will accept nominations either from proposers or self-nominations, as long as indication of support (three members of ISCA) is provided. Please send your nomination(s) to the ISCA Secretariat secretariat@isca-speech.org   BEFORE March 1st, 2017  with the following information:
Full Name and Title:
Position and Institution:
Research area: 
Indication of willingness to serve if elected:
E-mail:
URL:
Short biography (one paragraph)
Short statement (one paragraph, acknowledging the willingness to serve the duty assigned by the Board, and the preference of area(s) one would intend to do.)   
Names and emails of three proposers (ISCA members).
Please provide a photo, for posting on the ballot.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information about the nomination process or about duties of ISCA Board members. 

Best regards,
Haizhou LI  (ISCA President)   isca-president@isca-speech.org
Douglas O'Shaughnessy (ISCA Secretary)    secretariat@isca-speech.org 

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Areas:  

FINANCE, CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, MEMBERSHIP SERVICES AND ISCA WEBSITE, PUBLICATIONS AND ARCHIVE, DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS AND GEOGRAPHICAL OUTREACH, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, TRAINING & EDUCATION, GRANTS, FELLOWS & AWARDS, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, PUBLIC RELATIONS, SECRETARIAT

Current Board:
Haizhou LI (ISCA President)
John HANSEN (ISCA Vice President)
Mark HASEGAWA-JOHNSON (ISCATreasurer)
Douglas O'SHAUGHNESSY (ISCA Secretary)
Gérard BAILLY
Kay BERKLING
Martin COOKE
Hynek HERMANSKY
Keikichi HIROSE
Kate KNILL
Lori LAMEL
Sebastian MOELLER
Torbjorn SVENDSEN
Satoshi NAKAMURA



 
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2-3Videos of Interspeech and ISCA supported conferences
Video archives are available in 
http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/video-archive 
where keynote speeches from IS 2010 can be seen. You will also find video archives 
of many other conferences.
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2-4Videos of INTERSPEECH 2016

The videos for the plenary talks at IS2016 are now accessible via https://www.superlectures.com/interspeech2016/ where all the videos of previous conferences are also available.

In case of problems, they can also be watched on our the website of the conference http://www.interspeech2016.org/

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2-5ISCA Online Archive

 

ISCA Online Archive is now accessible directly from ISCA Web main page.
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2-6A message from Satoshi Nakamura, responsible for DL selections.

We are pleased to announce the Distinguished Lecturers for 2017-2018:

(1) Prof. Jennifer S. Cole, Linguistics, Northwestern University, USA

(2) Prof. Laurence Devillers, Computer Sciences, University of Paris-Sorbonne IV/LIMSI-CNRS, France

 

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