Silver Anniversary June 5-9, 2000, Istanbul, Turkey http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu Important Announcements from the Organizing Committee of ICASSP 2000 Silver Anniversary: We are excited to offer you an excellent Technical Program with Three Plenary Sessions, six Special Sessions and a Student Forum, Eight Tutorials, and Eighty Technical Sessions in Twelve different areas in this Silver Anniversary of ICASSP series as well as special events such as: Silver Anniversary Address by Professor Bruce A. Eisenstein, IEEE President The Makhoul Challenge award (if it is resolved by June 5, 2000,) ICASSP2000 Sakip Sabanci Cartoon Contest and Exhibit The Silver Anniversary Banquet held at the Ciragan Palace, home of the later Ottoman Imperial House on the shores of the Bosporus. Our program is available on: Web page http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu/TechProgram/Schedule.html Down-loadable ftp at http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu/TechProgram/index.html Members of the IEEE signal processing society and authors will be receiving a printed copy in the mail. Please note that June is the beginning of the high tourist season in Istanbul and you do have to act fast to take advantage of special reduced rates for hotels (five conference hotels have been sold-out already) and air tickets available to ICASSP attendees. Visa Information: Our attendees are kindly reminded to read the visa issues at: http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu/IstanbulTrip/visa.html It might inconvenience all of us if it is not addressed in a timely fashion. Finally, Texas Instruments is offering educators a practical introduction to the revolutionary TMS320C6000(tm) DSP family: The TMS320C6211 DSP Starter Kit (DSK) Workshop. Texas Instruments will offer two one-day workshops at ICASSP 2000 on June 7th and June 9th, based on the TMS320C6211 DSP Starter Kit (DSK) with the Code Composer Studio(tm) Integrated Development Environment. The TMS320C6211 DSK Workshop is a hands-on and lab-based educational program facilitated by experienced university instructors. This workshop will introduce educators and engineers to: The TMS320C6000 architecture and peripherals The Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment Real-time programming and DSP/BIOS(tm) Assembly language programming Each participant will receive a TMS320C6211DSK with TI's compliments. Attendees must complete the one-day workshop in order to receive the DSK. Details can be found in our website. Looking forward to seeing you all at ICASSP'2000. Tulay Adali ICASSP'2000 Publicity chair Silver Anniversary Huseyin Abut San Diego State University Silver Anniversary Title