Posted: 2011-12-26

The 2012 membership year has begun, and you can renew your IEEE CIS membership online at any time. We warmly encourage you to renew your valuable membership in CIS, in addition to your IEEE membership. This year the IEEE CIS membership dues are US $26 for regular members and US $13 for students/graduate students. With your membership you will receive many benefits. Please visit our website at http://ieee-cis.org for more information and details.

If you already renewed your membership with CIS, we thank you! We are pleased that you are staying with us in 2012. If you have renewed only the IEEE membership, you can easily add the CIS membership at any time by visiting the IEEE website, http://www.ieee.org/renew

If you have not renewed your IEEE membership but would like to stay in both the IEEE and the CIS, please visit the IEEE web site http://www.ieee.org/renew and renew both the IEEE and the CIS memberships. Please note that IEEE provides special discounts for those who have encountered economic hardship. Graduate Student Members pay the student rate as long as they are enrolled in at least 50% of a normal full-time academic program. In addition, the IEEE offers an electronic membership (e-Membership) option that cuts the annual membership dues by more than half. The e-Membership option is available to new and renewing members who reside in countries where the per capita Gross Domestic Product does not exceed US $15,000. You can find more details and the list of nearly 150 developing nations at the following link: http://www.ieee.org/emember. Members who select the e-Membership option will receive an electronic copy of their membership card, materials, and a digital subscription to IEEE Spectrum, the Institute, and Potentials.

We provide service to our members through a number of programs. We provide summer research grants to students. We offer travel grants to student members presenting papers at IEEE CIS conferences, as well as to professional members from developing countries. For those of you who have just graduated and become young professionals, the Graduate Of the Last Decade (GOLD) program offers many benefits and activities. If you have 10 years or more of significant professional experience (or 5 years after obtaining a PhD degree) then you can apply for promotion to the grade of Senior Member. Chapters can request the visit of Distinguished Lecturers of our society. A new initiative called Regional Ambassador Program aims at fostering cooperation among neighboring chapters. This initiative will be run as a pilot in IEEE Region 9 Latin-America during 2012. See more details at http://ieee-cis.org/rap

The IEEE CIS has built an educational repository containing tutorial and plenary talks recorded at conferences. In addition, history interviews with computational intelligence pioneers have been uploaded. Check out the repository at http://ieee-cis.org/edu/repository

Each year the society delivers awards for outstanding papers published in IEEE CIS Transactions, an outstanding PhD dissertation, an early career award, and pioneer awards in different fields, among others. Above all we provide the opportunity of networking and being an active volunteer. We invite you to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Second Life and other the social network media. Over 600 members work as volunteers in many capacities organizing, planning and performing conference, educational, publication, technical, and member activities. If you would like to serve as an IEEE CIS proactive member, please contact the Vice-President-Members Activities directly.

Thank you in advance for continuing to be part of IEEE CIS, and we look forward to seeing you at the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, to be held in Brisbane, Australia, on June 10-15, 2012, please visit http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

Kindest regards,

Pablo A. Estevez

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President - Members Activities

Gary Yen

 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, President

Posted: 2011-11-24

Posted: 2011-11-11

Regional Ambassador Program, an initiative approved by ADCOM in June, 2011

I.       Overview       

The main goal of the IEEE CIS Regional Ambassador Program (RAP) initiative is to increase and strengthen local and regional cooperation among members by providing them access to a wide array of regional experts in an easy and expedited way. The RAP initiative also includes the goals of serving CIS chapters, fostering cooperation between chapters, helping to create new chapters, and stimulating member recruitment.

The RAP will be run first as a pilot project in IEEE Region 9, Latin-America, for a year under new initiative funding. Following the first year, the impact of the RAP will be evaluated in order to decide whether it should continue as a permanent program of the IEEE CIS.

II.    Mission

The RAP initiative aims to foster cooperation between and among CIS Chapters within the same IEEE region, in order to organize visits of regional ambassadors (RAs). The program also supports CIS members residing in IEEE sections where although there are no CIS chapters, there is the potential to create new chapter(s).

A RA visit should be actively pursued as an opportunity for membership recruitment and CIS promotion, and chapter formation when applicable. The RAs will include a short presentation about the IEEE CIS during their talks. This program, however, is not intended to provide speakers for conferences, workshops, or symposia. 

III.    Policies and Procedures

A. There are two ways to request a regional ambassador:

1) Two CIS chapters belonging to the same IEEE region, but different IEEE sections, agree to cooperate. The lead chapter organizes an event and initiates the RA invitation, and the other provides the ambassador. Student chapters can participate as one of the two chapters requesting an ambassador.

2) A group of at least six IEEE CIS members (graduate student members, members, senior members or fellows) from an IEEE Section where there is no CIS chapter requests a RA from a CIS chapter, belonging to the same IEEE region. The group of members must select/agree on a chapter formation champion who should contact the chair of the IEEE CIS chapters subcommittee and begin the process of collecting signatures on the chapter formation petition before or at the time of the RAP application. In the following proposed procedures, a Group of Members refers to a group of CIS members satisfying the requirements of point 2).

3) All requests should be sent to the chair of the RAP subcommittee (see section VI). Requests should include:

    --RAP application form

    --Email from participating chapter chairs or group of members supporting the application

    --In case of a request coming from a group of members, it must include documentation about a chapter petition form in progress with a minimum of six signatures of IEEE CIS members belonging to their IEEE section. A confirmation note from the chair of the CIS chapters subcommittee must be included, indicating that the chapter formation process has been initiated and that at least six signatures of IEEE CIS members in good standing are supporting chapter formation.

    --Regional ambassador´s resumé. The nomination package may include addresses of the ambassador web site.

    --Signed RA duties form where the candidate expresses his/her willingness to serve as an RA and complete the respective duties.

    --Title and abstract of the lecture.

    --Date and location.

    --Estimated costs.

B. To organize a regional ambassador activity the CIS Chapter Chairs, or alternatively a Group of Members, should perform the following steps:

1.    Based on the interests of the members, choose an ambassador and a topic. The ambassador must be a CIS member residing in the same IEEE region as the chapter chairs. The chapter chair or a group of members should contact the RA directly, and work out preliminary details of the visit (tour event, date, location, financial arrangements, etc.).

2.    This preliminary information should be included in the RAP Application Form, to be sent to the chair of the RAP subcommittee. In general, the RAP covers the RA’s inter-city travel expenses. Chapters or group of members should cover the local expenses such as accommodation, meals, and transportation.

3.  The chapter chair, or group of members, should make timely arrangements well in advance of the planned visit. Requests are evaluated continuously and on a first-come first-served basis, and members are encouraged to make their requests for approval of the RA visit early in the year.

4.  RAs will include a short presentation about the IEEE CIS in their talks. The MA committee will develop a standard high-quality 15-minute slide presentation for RAs to use. If the RA activity has been initiated by a group of members, the RA visit has the important additional goal of stimulating the collection of the additional signatures needed to complete the chapter petition form.

5. The RA will be reimbursed up to a maximum of $1,000, in order to (partially) cover the air-fare to the location where the RAP talk is to be given, as well as other related travel expenses of the RA. A RA may have at most two RAP trips during a calendar year, depending on the availability of funds, but the second trip has lower priority.

6. After the visit is approved by the RAP subcommittee (see item VI), the chapter chair or group of members should contact the RA to finalize arrangements. A copy of the approval email should be send to the VP of Finances, indicating the amount awarded, date, location, and name of the RA, as well as the participating CIS chapters. The lecture should be open to all members of the IEEE, and non-members as well. The chapter chairs are expected to publicize the event in the chapter newsletter and/or by special mailings to all members of the chapter, as well as in their IEEE Section. The event must be announced as "Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society under its Regional Ambassador Program". If other IEEE societies or organizations have offered to support this Chapter activity, then proper acknowledgment should also be given.

7. Immediately following the event, the chapter chair, or group of members, should send a summary report to the chair of the RAP subcommittee including information on the lecture date/title, attendee statistics, a copy of the announcement, photos, etc.

8. The RA should retain receipts of the approved travel. Following the event, the RA should complete the IEEE travel reimbursement form (available at http://ieee-cis.org/financial) and send it electronically to the VP of Finances with a copy to the VP of Members Activities. After approval from the VP of Finances, the spreadsheet and scanned original receipts should be sent by email to the IEEE CIS Executive Administrator.

9. Chapters may participate in more than one RAP activity, but the RAP subcommittee will rank the requests, and give preference to chapters not previously having an RA assigned, in order to maximize the coverage of the program. Depending on the availability of funds, a chapter may have a second RA assigned to it.

IV.         Regional Ambassadors Eligibility

The Regional Ambassadors are recognized experts in their respective fields. The RAs should be IEEE Senior Members or Fellows with IEEE CIS membership. There will be no list of appointed ambassadors. Ambassadors should be proposed by a CIS chapter chair organizing a lecture, and should count on the support of the chair of the CIS chapter in which the proposed ambassador is a member. Alternatively, ambassadors can be proposed by the chair of the CIS chapter in which the ambassador is a member, and requested by a group of members of an IEEE section where there is no CIS chapter. Ambassadors will be approved upon request on a case-by-case basis by the RAP subcommittee.

V.         Regional Ambassador Program Subcommittee

A subcommittee of the Members Activities Committee will be in charge of running the RAP during its first year of execution. The subcommittee will be composed of the Chapters Subcommittee Chair, Distinguished Lecturer Program Subcommittee Chair, Senior Members Subcommittee Chair, Industry Liaison Subcommittee Chair and the Vice-president of Members Activities (who will act as the subcommittee chair during the first year of the RAP initiative).

The role of the RAP subcommittee is threefold:

    --Approve regional ambassadors upon request using the RA selection criteria listed below

    --Suggest potential regional ambassadors to chapter chairs

    --Publicize the Regional Ambassador Program

1. RA Selection Criteria*

*Quantitative measures in italics are recommendations in the competency of the RAP subcommittee

a.       Leadership & public lecture accomplishments in CIS related fields:

Criterion: number of keynote/plenary/tutorial/invited talks at regional or international events during the 5 years preceding the nomination.

b.      Elected members of the CIS, such as Adcom/Excom members, EiCs, chairs of CIS committees/subcommittees, Chapter chairs are highly respected researchers and active volunteers, and they can be directly requested as RAP speakers.

Criterion: service to CIS in at least one of the above positions during the last 5 years.

c.       Other RAP speakers can be suggested, if they are leading experts of their field, either in academia, or in industry and government, and have also demonstrated active involvement in CIS

Criterion: ISI journal papers and/or patents and/or awards, and leading positions in the last 5 years.

d.      Serving as an ambassador of the society:

The RA should be committed to the duty of representing the society at various public events, and to participating in chapter formation when applicable, membership recruitment and development as part of the RAP presentation.

Criterion: active member in IEEE CIS, with a signed and submitted RA duties form.

VI.  Regional Ambassador Program Evaluation

Joint chapter activities funded by RAP must be reported for all chapters participating in the activity through VTools. RAP activities must be properly reported on the chapters’ and CIS websites, E-Letter, and the EMaC tool.

At the end of the first year, the RAP will be evaluated using the following parameters:

    --Number of RAP activities per year

    --Number of RAP activities reported by chapters in VTools

    --Progress report on chapter formation as a result of the RAP program within the region

    --Opinions of CIS Chapter Chairs in IEEE Region 9

    --Survey applied to attendants of RA lectures

    --Total number of attendees at RA lectures

    --Number of visits to the RAP website

Finally, a report about the RAP experience will be written for CIM.

VIII. RAP Time Table

·      June 3, 2011, Motion to be voted on by MA Committee

·      June 5, 2011, the RAP initiative  to be voted on by ADCOM

·      October 2011, setting up of RAP subcommittee and website

·      October-December 2011, Publicity of the RAP initiative in IEEE Region 9

·      January 1- December 31, 2012, Execution of RAP initiative

Posted: 2011-10-12

6 October 2011

Dear IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Member,

Important information regarding the 2011 Computational Intelligence Society AdCom election follows. According to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bylaws, this year's election by the membership is to fill vacant Administrative Committee positions. Five new members will be elected for a three-year term 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2014. The names on the ballott were submitted by the Nominations Committee and/or by petition.

This year's election continues to offer the opportunity to cast your ballot electronically. You will need your IEEE Web Account username/password to access the ballot and cast your vote. This is the same account information used to access IEEE online services such as renewing your membership, myIEEE, and Xplore. It is recommended that you test your web account access at http://www.ieee.org/myieee to avoid any potential problems with accessing your ballot. If you do not recall your web account information, you may go to: http://www.ieee.org/web/accounts to recover. You may also email contactcenter@ieee.org or call +1 800 678 4333 (USA/Canada) or +1 732 981 0060 (Worldwide).

Use the URL below to access the ballot and cast your vote now. Please make sure that your pop up blocker is off. https://eballot3.votenet.com/IEEE_SE

Please vote for UP TO FIVE candidates for the 2012 - 2014 term, and also identify which IEEE region you reside in order for us to capture the demographic of the voting constituency. Voting must be completed no later than 17 November 2011. Any returns received after this date will not be counted. The online voting site will close at 4:00 pm Eastern Time.

If you have any questions about the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society voting process, please contact ieee-cisvote@ieee.org or +1 732 562 3904.

I look forward to your response. Be one of the active and valuable members of CIS!

Gary Yen
President
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Posted: 2011-09-27

We would like to notify all voting Members that this year you will receive your IEEE Computational Intelligence Society ballot material electronically for voting in the IEEE CIS Election on 6 October 2011 from ieee-cisvote@ieee.org.

You will need your IEEE Web Account username/password to access the ballot and cast your vote. This is the same account information used to access IEEE online services such as renewing your membership, myIEEE, and Xplore. It is recommended you test your web account access at http://www.ieee.org/myieee to avoid any potential problems with accessing your ballot. If you do not recall your web account information, you may go to: http://www.ieee.org/web/accounts to recover. You may also email contactcenter@ieee.org or call +1 800 678 4333 (USA/Canada) or +1 732 981 0060 (Worldwide).

If you receive this message and would like to cast your ballot electronically, you need do nothing more. On 6 October 2011, you will receive another email (sent to this same email address) with election instructions and a link for voting online. The voting period is expected to be 6 October - 17 November 2011.

If you prefer to have the paper ballot material mailed to you, please e-mail your name, address, member number, and reference the CIS election ballot to ieee-cisvote@ieee.org or call +1 732 562 3904. When the election ballots are sent out, your ballot will be physically mailed to you rather than sent electronically.

If you have any questions please contact Jo-Ellen Snyder at j.e.snyder@ieee.org or call +1 732 465 5892.

Posted: 2011-08-26

The CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) supports local CIS Chapters and CIS members by helping them to invite leading researchers in their respective fields. DLP speakers act as ambassadors of the society during their visit to local chapters and forster professional activities in the area. CIS DLP conducts a successful year in 2011, with 11 talks completed/scheduled this calendar year. We expect to accomplish several more DLP visits this year based on the requests by local chapters. Chapter Chairs still have the opportunity to request DLP visits for this calendar year, so members could benefit from the great opportunity provided by the DLP. http://ieee-cis.org/members/dlp/

Nominations are sollicited for Distinguished Lecturers for the period of 2012-2014. Nominations can be made by the following CIS members: Chapter Chairs, TC Chairs, AdCom/ExCom Members, EICs, and past distinguished lecturers . Nominations should be submitted to the Chair of the CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program, Robert Kozma rkozma55@gmail.com . Please submit nominations and/or encourage qualified members to nominate DLP speakers by the AUGUST 31, 2011 deadline. For further details on the nomination process and the DLP please visit http://cnd.memphis.edu/dlp/ or http://ieee-cis.org/members/dlp/.


Robert Kozma
Chair, IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP) SubCommittee

Posted: 2011-07-07

For those CIS members who are interested in being included in the slate of the upcoming AdCom election, according to CIS Bylaws, ARTICLE XIII – NOMINATIONS, ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS, Section 1, ADCOM Members-at-Large, Paragraph (b):

“The Nominations Committee shall also remind CIS members that additional nominations may be made by CIS voting members. For each elective office of the Society, individual voting members eligible to vote in such election may nominate candidates either by a written petition or by majority vote at a nomination meeting of the Society, provided such nominations are made at least 28 days before the date of election. The number of signatures required on a petition shall be determined in accordance with IEEE Bylaws as follows. For all positions where the electorate is less than 30,000 voting members, signatures shall be required from 2% of the eligible voters.”

For the 2012-2104 IEEE CIS ADCOM Election petition candidates, the required number of signatures is 131 and the deadline for petition signatures is August 8, 2011. Please contact CIS Executive Administrator, Jo Ellen Snyder at j.e.snyder@ieee.org to initiate the process as soon as possible.

 

Posted: 2011-04-01

The following IEEE CIS Officer positions will become vacant in 2012 and need to be filled by election during the ADCOM meeting on June 5, 2011: VP Technical Activities, VP Finance, and VP Conferences.

Eligibility for Vice Presidents: All ADCOM members, Editors-in-Chief, Standing Committee Chairpersons, and Technical Committee Chairpersons, who held at least one of these positions for at least one year in 2006-2010, and are both IEEE Members or higher-grade members and IEEE CIS members in good standing at the time of the election.

The IEEE CIS Nominations Committee wishes to receive nominations, including the nominee's complete contact information, and the statement from the nominee that he/she agrees to serve if elected, by May 31, 2011. They should be submitted by email to j.e.snyder@ieee.org, IEEE CIS Nominations Committee Chair, David Fogel, c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, IEEE CIS Executive Administrator.

 

Posted: 2011-04-01

Each year, five members of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society are elected by the voting members of the Society to serve on the ADCOM for 3-year terms. The ADCOM represents the members of the Society, defines the strategic goals of the Society, approves the plans for the Society's activities, approves the Society's budget, amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws, appoints Society officers, and authorizes the expenditure of Society funds. Members of the ADCOM are expected to attend two annual meetings and be involved in Society activities.

Eligibility: All members of the Society of grade higher than Student member and in good standing at the time of the election are eligible to be nominated to the ADCOM. Each nominee shall be consulted prior to the nomination to see if he/she will serve. Further information can be found at the IEEE CIS web site: http://ieee-cis.org.

There are two ways to nominate a candidate:

1) Via nomination through the IEEE CIS Nominations Committee. Please email the name of the nominee and full contact information, and the information that the candidate has been contacted and has agreed to serve if elected, to j.e.snyder@ieee.org, IEEE CIS Nominations Committee Chair, David Fogel, c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, IEEE CIS Executive Administrator.

The deadline for submitting nominations to the above email address is May 31,2011. The Nominations Committee will invite the nominees to provide a 200-word vita, screen the candidates, and submit at least 10 names for the society-wide election of ADCOM members.

2) Via petition. A valid nomination by petition from the Society's members is guaranteed to put a candidate on the ADCOM electoral ballot. Nominations by petition in 2011 must include at least 131 valid signatures of Society members and need to be submitted in writing (no fax/emails acceptable) to

IEEE CIS President, Dr. Gary Yen
c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, CIS Executive Administrator
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
445 Hoes Lane
P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855

Alternatively, petitions and signatures can be also submitted electronically through a petition web site established and managed by the IEEE. If you are interested in opening a petition web site, please contact Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, IEEE CIS Executive Administrator j.e.snyder@ieee.org.

 

Posted: 2011-04-01

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society annually recognizes significant contributions and meritorious service in the field of computational intelligence. The deadline for nominations for Awards of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is the 30 April 2011.

Receiving one of the prestigious CIS Awards is a great honor. Consider the nomination of candidates for the following CIS Awards:
- Neural Networks Pioneer Award
- Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
- Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
- Meritorious Service Award
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
- Outstanding Chapter Award
- Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
- Outstanding Computational Intelligence Organization Award
- Outstanding Computational Intelligence Early Career Award

Posted: 2011-03-13

The Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) is organizing an ExCom Seminar Series in Sao Paulo, BRAZIL on March 18, 2011. Speakers from member of Executive Committee will address selected nature-inspired computational paradigms for problem solving. Through this event, CIS would like to outreach its colleagues in the targeted geographical area and to build an infrastructure to facilitate the research and education needs.
This Seminar Series will take place at the University of Sao Paulo, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering of the Polytechnic School (EPUSP), which is located at Cidade Universitaria in the City of Sao Paulo. The event is cosponsored by the CIS South Brazil Chapter, and its registration is free and open to all professional and researchers interested in the technical areas of the computational intelligence.
Please note a Chapter meeting is planned immediately after the seminar and everyone is invited. Please visit the website at http://www.lsi.usp.br/icone/ieee-cis to register and to find out more details about local information. Should there be any question, please do not hesitate to contact our local host, Dr. Emilio Del Moral Hernandez (emilio@lsi.usp.br). We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Posted: 2011-02-15

The Computational Intelligence Society introduces its volunteer roster in 2011:

Executive Committee-
        President: Gary G. Yen, USA
        President-Elect: Marios M. Polycarpou, CYPRUS
        Vice President-Conferences: Gary B. Fogel, USA
        Vice President-Education: Jennie Si, USA
        Vice President-Finances: Piero P. Bonissone, USA
        Vice President-Members Activities: Pablo A. Estevez, CHILE
        Vice President-Publications: Xin Yao, UK
        Vice President-Technical Activities: Hisao Ishibuchi, JAPAN
        Executive Administrator: Jo Ellen Snyder, USA

Administrative Committee-
        Members with term 2009-2011:
                Jim Bezdek, USA
                Julia Chung, TAIWAN
                James M. Keller, USA
                Enrique H. Ruspini, SPAIN
                Jacek M. Zurada, USA
        Members with term 2010-2012:
                Oscar Cordon, SPAIN
                Robert Kozma, USA
                Nikhil Pal, INDIA
                Jose Principe, USA
                Lipo Wang, SINGAPORE
        Members with term 2011-2013:
                Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, FRANCE
                Janusz Kacprzyk, POLAND
                Simon Lucas, UK
                Luis Magdalena, SPAIN
                Jerry Mendel, USA

Standing Committees Chairs-
        Awards Committee: James M. Keller, USA
        Fellows Committee: Piero P. Bonissone, USA
        Constitution and Bylaws Committee: David B. Fogel, USA
        Standards Committee: Plamen Angelov, UK
        Strategic Planning Committee: Enrique H. Ruspini, SPAIN
        Nominations Committee: David B. Fogel, USA

Education Sub-Committees Chairs-
        Continuing Education Subcommittee: Daniel Ashlock, CANADA
        Educational Repository Subcommittee: Deana Delp, USA
        Graduate Student Research Grants Subcommittee: Cesare Alippi, ITALY
        Multimedia Tutorial Subcommittee: Baohua Li, USA
        Pre-College Activities Subcommittee: Jerry Mendel, USA
        Student Game-Based Competitions Subcommittee: Sung-Bae Cho, KOREA
        Summer Schools Subcommittee: Jong-Hwan Kim, KOREA
        University Curricula Subcommittee: Luis Magdalena, SPAIN

Members Activities Sub-Committees Chairs-
        Chapters Subcommittee: Damien Coyle, UK
        Distinguished Lecture Program Subcommittee: Robert Kozma, USA
        E-Letter Manager: Zeng-Guang Hou, CHINA
        GOLD Subcommittee: Heike Sichtig, USA
        History Subcommittee: Jim Bezdek, USA
        Industry Liaison Subcommittee: Rami Abielmona, CANADA
        Senior Members Subcommittee: Lucia Isabel Passoni, ARGENTINA
        Social Media Subcommittee: Albert Y.S. Lam, USA
        Students Activities Subcommittee: Basak Yüksel, TURKEY
        Travel Grants Administrator: Keeley Crocket, UK
        Webinars Subcommittee: Moufid Harb, CANADA
        Webmaster: Haibo He, USA
        Women in Computational Intelligence Subcommittee: Dipti Srinivasan, SINGAPORE

Publication Editors-in-Chief-
        IEEE Transactions on Neural Network: Derong Liu, USA/CHINA
        IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Chin-Teng Lin, TAIWAN
        IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation: Garrison Greenwood, USA
        IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development: Zhengyou Zhang, USA
        IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games: Simon Lucas, UK
        IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine: KC Tan, SINGAPORE
        IEEE Press Liaison: Jerry Mendel, USA

Technical Activities Committees Chairs-
        Neural Network TC: Alessandro Sperduti, ITALY
        Fuzzy Systems TC: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, FRANCE
        Evolutionary Computation TC: Carlos A. Coello Coello, MEXICO
        Autonomous Mental Development TC: Minoru Asada, JAPAN
        Emerging Technologies TC: Yew Soon Ong, SINGAPORE
        Intelligent Systems Applications TC: Yaochu Jin, UK
        Bioinformatics and Bioengineering TC: Clare Bates Congdon, USA
        Computational Finance and Economics TC: Shu-Heng Chen, TAIWAN
        Data Mining TC: Nitesh Chawla, USA
        Games TC: Julian Togelius, DENMARK
      Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning TC: Marco Wiering, NETHERLANDS

Representatives at IEEE Councils/Initiatives/Committees-
        IEEE Biometrics Council: Lipo Wang, SINGAPORE
        IEEE Systems Council: Laszlo T. Koczy, HUNGARY
        IEEE Women in Engineering Committee: Fahmida N. Chowdhury, USA
        IEEE Smart Grid Initiative: Haibo He, USA
        IEEE Life Science Initiative: Jagath C Rajapakse, SINGAPORE
        IEEE Electric Vehicle Initiative: Dipti Srinivasan, SINGAPORE

Posted: 2011-01-12

The Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lectures Program (DLP) closes a very successful year with 15 realized DLP visits to CIS Chapters across the globe during 2010. This shows a significant increase from previous years, indicating that our society pays increasing attention to the development of local chapters as important building blocks of our emergent activities. We would like to express our gratitude to the following DLP speakers who retired in 2010: Russ Eberhart, James Keller, Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou, and Leszek Rutkowski. Their DLP talks in the past 3 year provided much needed outreach and support to our Chapters and to our Society as a whole. Thank you!
The CIS Administrative Committee has recently appointed the new slate of DLP speakers for the period of 2011-2013. They have been selected from the nominations of highly qualified candidates. We have the opportunity to appoint 7 new speakers and they are as follows: Jim Bezdek, Marco Dorigo, David Fogel, Janusz Kacprzyk, Nikola Kasabov, Enrique Ruspini, and Kay Chen Tan. Congratulations! With the new slate, our society has 21 DLP speakers, representing all geographical regions, academia and industry, and the major research areas covered by our society. Please do contact the speakers who serve as the Ambassadors of our Society, and request their visits for the benefit to your Chapters. Please see http://www.ieee-cis.org/members/dlp/ for further details.

Posted: 2011-01-02

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society wishes to broaden people's perspective and understanding of computational intelligence technology and underlying innovations that are currently and will continue to be important as we progress into the future. We are especially very keen to get the younger generation interested in technology and finding out what makes technology work, and to explain concepts of computational intelligence in easily understood ways. The challenge is to explain through a YouTube video production how Computational Intelligence techniques (specifically Fuzzy Logic here) can be explained at the simplest level so that they can be understood mainly by pre-college and college students. There are substantial prizes and only one month left to get your video prepared. Read More...

Posted: 2010-12-06

According to CIS Constitution, Article XI: Governance and Administration, Section 1, "The Administrative Committee (hereinafter called also ADCOM) is established to govern and administer the Society. The ADCOM defines the strategies and policies to manage the Society and realize the societal purpose, monitors the Society's activities, and evaluates the outcomes." Congratulation goes to the following five members on been elected to serve as AdCom members during 2011-2013:

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,
Janusz Kacprzyk,
Simon M. Lucas,
Luis Magdalena, and
Jerry Mendel.

In addition, the announcement was made public today pertained to the newly elevated IEEE Fellow - Class of 2011. There are seven fellows elevated through CIS. Congratulations go to

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,
Carlos Coello Coello,
Paul Gader,
Dan Hammerstorm,
Te-Won Lee,
Chih-Jen Lin, and
Dharmendra Modha.

Additionally, the following are elevated Fellows in class of 2011 with CIS membership:
Thomas Parisini,
Gert Cauwenberghs,
Voicu Groza,
Qing-Hua Wu,
Shyi-Ming Chen,
Hermann Ney, and
Laurence Simar.

Posted: 2010-11-18

IEEE has recently launched the IEEE eLearning Library, http://ieee-elearning.org/, containing nearly 200 short, online programs in core and emerging technologies. IEEE-CIS has contributed courses developed by experts in the field to the eLearning Library. Please visit the IEEE CIS Educational Repository http://sites.google.com/site/ciseducationsite/home/elearning for current CIS topic listings. Also, stay tuned for new major developments with the IEEE CIS Educational Repository in the coming months!

Posted: 2010-10-11

According to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bylaws, this year's election by the membership is to fill vacant Administrative Committee positions. Five new members will be elected for a three-year term beginning 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2013. The names on the ballot were submitted by the Nominations Committee and/or by petition. Use the URL below to access the ballot and cast your vote now or before November 17.

https://eballot3.votenet.com/IEEE_SE

You will need your IEEE Web Account username/password to access the ballot and cast your vote. This is the same account information used to access IEEE online services such as renewing your membership, myIEEE, and Xplore. It is recommended that you test your web account access at www.ieee.org/myieee to avoid any potential problems with accessing your ballot. If you do not recall your web account information, you may go to: www.ieee.org/web/accounts to recover. You may also email contactcenter@ieee.org or call +1 800 678 4333 (USA/Canada) or +1 732 981 0060 (Worldwide). If you have any questions about the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society voting process, please contact ieee-cisvote@ieee.org or +1 732 562 3904.

Posted: 2010-07-31

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) is honored to announce the 2011 CIS Award recipients:

• Jose C. Principe is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award
• Hans J. Zimmermann is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
• Larry J. Eshelman is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
• Patrick K. Simpson is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Meritorious Service Award
• Qingshan Liu and Jun Wang are the recipients of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Neural Networks Paper Award for their paper entitled "A one-layer recurrent neural network with a discontinuous hard-limiting activation function for quadratic programming," published in IEEE TNN, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 558-570, April 2008.
• Wang Francisco Herrera, Enrique Herrera-Viedma and Luis Martinez Lopez are the recipients of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Paper Award for their paper entitled "A fuzzy linguistic methodology to deal with unbalanced linguistic term sets," published in IEEE TFS, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 354-370, April 2008.
• Siang Yew Chong, Peter Tino and Xin Yao are the recipients of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Paper Award for their paper entitled "Measuring Generalization Performance in Coevolutionary Learning," published in IEEE TEVC, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 479-505, August 2008.
• The CIS Egypt Chapter is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Chapter Award
• Huanhuan Chen is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
• Natural Selection, Inc. is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Organization Award (the first such award to be conferred)
• Oscar Cordon is the recipient of the 2011 IEEE CIS Outstanding Early Career Award (the first such award to be conferred)

Posted: 2010-07-07

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Nominations Committee continues to solicit nominations for candidates for the 2010 elections. Open positions for the Executive Committee include the President-Elect, VP for Publications, VP for Education, and VP for Members Activities. In addition, five AdCom members-at-large (3-year term) will be elected. If you would like to suggest anyone for the Nominations Committee to consider, please contact David Fogel, chair, at dfogel@natural-selection.com and let him know. Please remember that ExCom elections will take place on July 18, 2010. The committee anticipates completing all nominations for AdCom members-at-large prior to July 31, 2010. In addition, IEEE CIS voting members can make additional nominations through the petition process, which is described in the IEEE CIS By-Laws, see Article XIII, Section 1(b).

Posted: 2010-05-18

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for candidates for the 2010 elections. Open positions for the Executive Committee include the President-Elect, VP for Publications, VP for Education, and VP for Members Activities. In addition, five AdCom members-at-large (3-year term) will be elected. If you would like to suggest anyone for the Nominations Committee to consider, please contact David Fogel, chair, at dfogel@natural-selection.com and let him know prior to June 1, 2010. In addition, IEEE CIS voting members can make additional AdCom member-at-large nominations through the petition process, which is described in the IEEE CIS By-Laws, Article XIII, Section 1(b).

Posted: 2010-05-14

Over the next few days many IEEE Computational Intelligence Society members and recent non-members will be asked to complete a survey to help us (the IEEE CIS volunteers and IEEE staff) improve the products, services, and local/international activities that our society offers. We would like to ask you, our members and past members, to take a few minutes of your time to complete this brief survey. This will undoubtedly help to improve our society for your benefit and help us grow our society in the future.

Posted: 2010-04-29

The IEEE CIS Educational Repository was developed to promote awareness of computational intelligence topics through the dissemination of educational materials in various outlets and formats. Tutorials presented at major CIS conferences are available in PowerPoint, audio, and video format at the repository. Plenary lectures and popular lecture videos in the CIS field are also available, along with information on webinars and ExpertNOW courses. Currently, the repository is housed on a temporary site, but soon will be integrated into the new CIS website with more user-friendly search and archival features. Check out the repository after each major CIS conference at http://ieee-cis.org/edu/repository. Any comments, please contact Deana Delp at Deana.Delp@testadvantage.com.

Posted: 2010-01-10

It's my greatest honor to serve as your president for the next two years. The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) has shown remarkable growth from its humble beginnings as the IEEE Neural Networks Council in the early 1990s. Since then, we have grown into a thriving and expanding society, with an international representation of devoted volunteers, a strong sense of community, and a vision for addressing some of the most challenging real-world issues with biologically motivated computational paradigms.

Our current activities are well represented by our publications and conferences. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation routinely rate high in their respective categories. Among the 409 computer science journals indexed by the ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) in 2008, our three flagship publications are all with impact factors of 3.6 or higher and ranked at 10th, 11th, and 12th among all Electrical and Electronics Engineering Publications. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, and IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, as newer additions, have paved paths to a greater success in years to come. Our main conferences, the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation each continue to showcase well-regarded peer-reviewed technical contributions and attract growing participation from around the world. These three meetings will once again come together under a single roof from July 18-23 in Barcelona, Spain for the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Additionally, the bi-annual IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, which was inaugurated in 2007, witnessed another overwhelming success in 2009-Nashville, featuring 24 concurrent symposia in specialized topics. Look out for the next edition of SSCI 2011 in Paris for even greater success.

Our technical activities are catered by eleven technical committees and many task forces that comprise of leading and active contributors. You are encouraged to participate in these working groups to help shape the strategic and tactical advances that are required for our society to flourish. It is through the concerted efforts of motivated individuals and these grass-root organizations that novel ideas are born, new symposia are initiated, and special issues of our transactions are proposed. In addition, our Standards Committee offers a balance, openness, due process, and consensus program dealing with standards, data sets, and software of interest to people working in CI.

Our member activities routinely support distinguished lecturers at our local chapters. We offer webinars of timely interest on the Web for viewing at your convenience and one of the most generous student assistance programs for traveling to conferences. We also have a new program to support researchers from developing countries to present their works at CIS-sponsored conferences. Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) subcommittee is dedicated to serving the needs of undergraduate and graduate students as well as practicing engineers who have graduated within the last ten years and are working in the field of computational intelligence.

Beginning 2009, we have also placed a specific focus on education outreaches, including multimedia tutorials at your disposal, summer schools around the world, and a repository of education materials. Extensive efforts will also be made to develop course modules both at undergraduate and graduate levels in computational intelligence. I am confident that these efforts will help bring computational intelligence to a higher level of recognition and visibility in today¡¦s social, economical, and technological world.

I look forward to serving your needs as the IEEE CIS president, and I encourage your suggestions. Please feel free to contact me at gyen@okstate.edu. I will be pleased to hear from you, and I welcome your participation in advancing the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society into the future.

Gary G. Yen
President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010-2011)