116th Convention Call For Proposals Received Tremendous Response
The Call for Proposals for the AES 116th Convention taking place May 8-11 in Berlin, Germany, turned out 240 submissions. Thanks to all of those who submitted proposals. Acceptances will be sent out January 15, 2004.

25th Conference Papers Proposal Deadline Extended
The deadline for the 25th Conference on Metadata for Audio taking place in London June 17-19 has been extended to Friday, December 19. The conference will focus on the state of the art, identify current issues, and explore directions for the development of advanced metadata systems for both consumer distribution and business-to-business.

AES 11-2003 Call For Comments Closes
The comment period for AES11-2003, the AES recommended practice for digital audio engineering synchronization of digital audio equipment in studio operations has closed. Outstanding comments have been resolved and the standard is now published and available on the web site. Many thanks to chair Robin Caine, and all those in SC-02-05, who led the successful revisions to this core AES digital audio standard. To view this and other digital audio standards that were updated during 2003, including AES3-2003, AES5-2003 and AES10-2003, please visit www.aes.org/standards and check out 'AES Standards in Print'.