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ASANews
The Signal Processing Technical Com-
mittee is planning to host a second smartphone competition at the ASA meeting in Pittsburg in spring 2015.
could not make it to this meeting, so the Society deferred its presentation until the next meeting, which was this past August (2013) in Costa Rica. All this was kept secret from Simmons, who subsequently affirmed that the delayed timing was serendipitous.
"This award comes at a time when my lab has completed a decades-long effort to understand how bat sonar ‘works’ as a system, with the goal of designing a bio- logically inspired sonar for the Office of Naval Research. The award means a lot to me because it was given by colleagues of long standing whose work I respect.” Readers interested in the North Ameri- can Society for Bat Research are invited to explore its web page at http://www. nasbr.org/. Information concerning the Gerrit S. Miller award can be found at http://www.nasbr.org/miller.html. The NASBR’s next meeting will be in Octo- ber 2014 in Albany, NY.
Editorial Manager to Replace PXP
The Acousti-
cal Society of America is in the process of tran-
sitioning to a new online manuscript submission and management system. At a special teleconference meeting on Sep- tember 10, 2013, the voting members of the Executive Council unanimously agreed to replace the current manuscript submission system (Peer X-Press, offered by the AIPP) by an alternate system, Editorial Manager. A contract with Aries, the vendor that offers Editorial Manager, was subsequently signed by Susan Fox, the ASA Executive Direc- tor, on January 10, 2014. This change will affect JASA, JASA-EL, and POMA.
Ultimately, submissions to Acoustics Today will also use the new submissions system.
General information concerning Edito- rial Manager can be found at the site www.editorialmanager.com
The chief attraction of Editorial Man- ager is that it is fully featured and highly configurable. Editorial Manager grew out of Editorial Assistant, a desktop manuscript-tracking application used by journals since the early 1990s. Editorial Manager was launched in the spring of 2001 and has been rapidly adopted by scholarly societies and publishers. It is used by over 5,000 journals and mil- lions of registered users. Many of our sister journals associated with acoustics are currently using Editorial Manager.
Aries Systems is located in North Ando- ver, Massachusetts, USA, with local staff representing the company in Germany and the United Kingdom. The company hosts an annual two-day Editorial Man- ager user’s conference in Boston every summer, the next one scheduled for June 19-20, 2014. ASA staff and some of our editors will attend this confer- ence. Aries also hosts similar meetings in Europe and Japan, so there may be ample opportunity for ASA’s overseas editors to attend such meetings.
The transition to Editorial Manager will require some extensive training of the ASA staff associated with publications, and there will be an extended period to configure the software system so that it is fully compatible with what the ASA desires for such a system. There will be separate configurations for JASA, JASA- EL, and POMA, and the editors and
James A. Simmons
James A. Simmons Receives
Gerrit S. Miller Award
ASA fellow James A. Simmons has been awarded the 2012 Gerrit S. Miller Award by the North American Society for Bat Research (NASBR)" in rec- ognition of outstanding service and contributions to the field of chiroptean biology." Simmons is a professor of neu- roscience at Brown University. He re- ceived the ASA’s Silver Medal in Animal Bioacoustics in 2005. According to the Brown University website, there is an interesting story about the timing of the award. Simmons actually won the 2012 Gerrit S. Miller Award. Apparently, the awardee must be present at the meeting where the award is given, and the award is kept as a surprise. The intent was that the Award be presented at a meeting in Puerto Rico in 2012, but Simmons
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