Message from the Editor-in-Chief

It is a pleasure to announce that the EURASIP Advisory Committee has decided to give the EURASIP 2004 Meritorious Service Award to Prof. K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) for his outstanding work as the Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (2001-2002) and as the Editor-in-Chief of the new EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications. I sincerely congratulate Ray on this Award, and wish to thank him for his continued interest and efforts for EURASIP JASP as a Senior Advisory Editor. The Award will be presented at the EUSIPCO 2004 Awards Ceremony, Vienna, September 2004.