Subject: ICASSP Special Sessions The organizing committee of ICASSP 2002 solicits proposals for ICASSP Special Sessions. These sessions are intended to be topic-oriented, with the topic being out of the mainstream, describing new applications of signal processing or promising DSP systems. Because of the novelty, these sessions are very well attended. At the last ICASSP, special sessions covered Bioinformation Processing, Conversational Systems for Pervasive Computing, Low Power Wireless Networks, Configurable Computing for DSP, Signal Processing for Nondestructive Evaluation, and Network Inference and Traffic Modeling. All special sessions will be oral presentations that are somewhat longer than usual ICASSP presentations. We want to have one special session each day of ICASSP. A paper to be included in the Proceedings will be required. Proposers of special sessions should describe the topic and give examples of the papers that might be solicited (Special session organizers will invite all papers for a session). Proposals should be submitted to Don Johnson (dhj@rice.edu) by October 1, 2002.