WCCI 2012 Panel Session on Computational Intelligence in Education and University Curricula

The following panel session at WCCI 2012 is organised by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Curriculum Subcommittee, and will be held Thursday, June 14, 4:10-5:10pm.

Chairs: Robert Kozma and Jennie Si

Panelists: Haibo He, Janusz Kaczprzyk, Jim Keller, Luis Magdalena, Marios Polycarpou, Lipo Wang

Computational Intelligence is a relatively new research field. A lot of educational materials have been created in various fields of CI in the past decades. However, due to the field's relatively youth, its fundamental achievements has not been organized into a comprehensive curriculum yet. It is crucial for the development of the field to have high-quality educational materials on the state of art of CI. This allows attracting and educating talented and enthusiastic students and documenting the progress in the field. The panel will discuss various areas of CI education, including existing databases and course materials, online resources and video lectures, development of new textbooks, open-source software, and others. Various recommendations for future actions will be discussed as well.

Competition Call for IEEE CIS GOLDs and Students: Pitch your CI Research Idea and Win an iPad 2!!!

The CIS GOLD subcommittee is hosting a “Novel CI Research Idea Pitch” competition during the Student and GOLD reception at WCCI 2012 in Brisbane Australia.

Your Challenge: Design a one-page research proposal of your Computational Intelligence idea and get a chance to pitch your idea to a panel of CI experts and your peers using an “elevator pitch” (3 minute time limit). An “elevator pitch” is a short summary of a research idea. The research area must be “computational intelligence” and the participants must “sell” their idea to the judges to qualify for prizes. A panel of three CI experts will select 3 best pitches and the audience (your peers) will rank 1st, 2nd and 3rdwinner through secret ballot. Prizes will include 1 iPad for 1st winner, certificates and free full year IEEE CIS memberships. Register now for a chance to be heard!

Submission Guidelines: Interested GOLDs and Students should consult the full Brief and Submission Guidelines by going to http://tinyurl.com/cp8kdw8. Registration and submission deadline is June 11th 2012, Midnight EST. (You can register for the competition without submitting the research summary).

Register Now (Space is Limited!): http://tinyurl.com/7tror22

WCCI 2012 Panel on Real-World Applications of CI

The Industry Liaison Sub-Committee  would like to announce that the WCCI 2012 Panel discussion on Real-world Applications of Computational Intelligence will be held on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in Great Hall 1&2 during the following timeslot 9:20-10:50.

Panelists will consider topics such as the present state in CI applications, the promising application fields, the main difficulties in bringing academia and industry together, amongst others, and will field questions offering to the audience points of view based on their own experiences.

For more information on the WCCI 2012 Panel, please visit http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/ieee-wcci2012/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=70#Panel4.

New CIS LinkedIn Subgroups

The Industry Liaison Sub-Committee announces the formation of two new LinkedIn subgroups of the main IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) group.

The first is called "Industry" and is meant to serve all the CIS industrial members by offering a medium of communication and linkage for CIS industrial members.  You can use this group to get informed on webinars/tutorials being organized for industrial members, join working groups or discussions around CI industrial activities and share products/services within the CIS community.  If you are interested in joining, please head to http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4393875&trk=hb_side_g&_mSplash=1 for more details or contact the Industry Liaison Sub-Committee Chair at rabielmo@ieee.org.

The second is called "Working Group on CI Real-World Applications" and is meant to serve the working group on CI real-world applications which will discuss contemporary issues with CI real-world applications and disseminate the main ideas that are formed and agreed upon by the working group.  If you are interested in joining, please head to http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4393880&trk=hb_side_g&_mSplash=1 for more details or contact the Industry Liaison Sub-Committee Chair at rabielmo@ieee.org.

For more information on the Industry Liaison Sub-Committee, please visit http://ieee-cis.org/members/industry.

IEEE CIS Facebook Photo Competition

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society are running a photo competition on Facebook. See the flyer below for further details.

Call for papers: IJCNN 2013

Mark your calendars for IJCNN 2013 scheduled for August 4-9 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, Texas.   IJCNN is the premier international conference in the area of neural networks theory, analysis, and applications.  Please note the special deadline dates for tutorial, post-conference workshop, and paper submissions .  For more information, please visit the IJCNN 2013 website at http://www.ijcnn2013.org.

CALLS 

 

• Special Session, Tutorial Proposals: December 15, 2012 

• Post-Conference Workshop Proposals: December 15, 2012 

• Paper Submissions Deadline: February 1, 2013 

• Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: May 1, 2013 

• Early Registration: June 15, 2013 

TOPICS COVERED 

 

• Neural network theory & models

• Computational neuroscience 

• Cognitive models 

• Brain-machine interfaces 

• Embodied robotics 

• Evolving neural systems 

• Self-monitoring neural systems 

• Learning neural networks 

• Neurodynamics 

• Neuroinformatics 

• Neuroengineering 

• Neural hardware 

• Neural network applications 

• Pattern recognition 

• Machine vision 

• Collective intelligence 

• Hybrid systems 

• Self-aware systems 

• Data mining 

• Data Streams processing 

• Sensor networks 

• Agent-based systems 

• Computational biology 

• Bioinformatics 

• Artificial life 

PLENARY SPEAKERS 

 

• Klaas Stephan, University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 

• Olaf Sporns, Indiana University 

• Lydia Kavraki, Rice University 

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS 

 

• University of Texas Arlington 

• Missouri University of Science & Technology 

• NSF 

• Cognimem 

• Toyota 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 

 

General Co-Chairs: Plamen Angelov, Lancaster University and Daniel Levine, University of Texas at Arlington 

Program Chair: Péter Érdi, Kalamazoo College, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 

Program Co-Chairs: Marley Vellasco, Pontifícia Universidade Catόlica do Rio de Janeiro and Emilio del Moral Hernandez, University of Sao Paulo 

Competitions Chair: Sven Crone, Lancaster University, UK 

Tutorials Chair: Leonid Perlovsky, US Air Force, Harvard University 

Special Sessions Chair: Radu-Emil Precup, Politehnica University of Timisoara 

Web Reviews Chair: Thomasz Cholewo, Lexmark International Inc. 

Panels Chair: Juyeng Weng, Michigan State University 

Publicity Chair: Bill Howell, NRCan, Ottawa 

Awards Chair: Arthur Kordon, The Dow Chemical Co., TX 

Sponsors & Exhibits Chair: Jagannathan Sarangipani, Missouri University of Science and Technology 

Publications Chair: Bruno Apolloni, University of Milan 

International Liaison: Carlo Morabito, University of Reggio Calabria 

European Liaison: Petya Koprinkova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 

Webmaster: Dan Alexandru, Politehnica University of Timisoara 

CIS Webinars

Dear Colleagues,

The Webinars program of the CIS is to organize seminars and distributes them through the web, where hot topics in Computational Intelligence are disseminated to our society members. Our society is looking for interested and capable individuals to disseminate their latest research findings or provide tutorial regarding CI topics to our members at large.

Webinars are an effective and efficient tool to perform these presentations; therefore, you are kindly invited to give a webinar in Computational Intelligence to our society members. The webinar will be archived in the CIS Education repository  If you are interested, please submit a talk title to the Webinars Subcommittee Chair , Moufid Harb , at mharb@ieee.org.

We appreciate your cooperation