The IEEE Signal Processing Society has recently announced the creation of a new research journal named “IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing“. By its name, I can imagine that this journal has been and will follow roughly the same path as the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) but specialized to signal processing topics. I guess that there may be some overlap between the two journals in topics related to applications of signal processing to communications, but this should work out just fine since there is always a lot of research and lots of new developments going on in this area. The Editor-in-Chief for the new journal is Prof. A. Lee Swindlehurst, who will be complemented by a great Editorial Board. The goal for the Editorial Board is to publish four issues in 2007, following by six per year after that, with an ultimate goal of monthly publication. There are already two active Call-for-Papers on the website.

I have recently learned about “Connexions”, which is essentially an online repository of notes and learning material of different subjects, but with a lot of content focused on DSP. What makes this site so valuable is that it follows the “open access” philosophy, which means that all the information is free (but belonging to an author that has to receive credit for his/her work), and intended to spur collaboration and further contribution. Besides the learning material, this site is also interesting in how the Internet is used intelligently to promote collaboration as well as the use of new tools and technologies (such as MathML).