Eurasip (co-)sponsored Events Call for Papers: the Fourth International Conference on Image and Signal Processing 30 Call for Papers: the 2nd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing . . . 31 President's Message Eurasip One-day Seminars Eurasip Treasurer's Report

Now that EUSIPCO 2009 in Glasgow has ended with about 600 participants and a wonderful program, scientific as well as cultural wise, all is left for me is to thank and all the members of the organizational committee for providing such a splendid job. Our concept of offering free tutorial has been shown successfully and will be continued in the future EUSIPCOs. While the number of participants has been steady, the exhibition has strongly increased. Currently many conferences suffer of the financial crisis; papers are withdrawn although being accepted. Many workshops I attended this year suffered the same fate. Let us hope that things become better in 2010. Time to look back in the recent past. Inspired by the US American Universities, a lot of discussion is currently going on in Europe about Elite Universities. The European Institute of Technology is being formed, not in a specific location but dependent on topics distributed over many universities in different European countries. But also nationally much activity is being spent to concentrate resources and sharpen profiles. The idea is to attract as many outstanding people in specific fields as possible and become mostly visible. On the long run the positive impact on the European or national industry is expected. Strange though that much comparison is done on performance comparison with American Universities while they have funds in the area of several billions our universities are run at several hundred millions. Recently the Technical University in Munich became one of the first Elite Universities in Germany. For this they obtain about 30Mio Euro additionally; roughly the same amount of money is devoted in Austria to pay for an entire Elite University; not the right amount to keep up with Harvard or MIT. What exactly does Elite mean? Looking into wikipedia you will find the following: Elite (occasionally spelledÉlite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, " to elect. " In sociology as in general usage, the elite is a relatively small dominant group within a large society, having a privileged status perceived as being envied by others of a lower line of order. Thus, the term Elite is not simply the best, it is more than that. In a set, there is always the best, for example the 1% best, the 10% best or the 50% best. This does not include that there is Elite among them. Even the 1% best students can …

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