15 IEEE CIS T-shirts for Creating a New Chapter

Posted: 2009-10-17

Are you looking to organize a CIS Chapter in your IEEE Section ? Looking to organize seminars, lectures, technical visits, forums, panels, meetings, workshops, conferences, counseling, networking, and much more ? Then, we invite you to form a standalone or joint chapter in your region as soon as possible! Here is how it works.
 

Forming a standalone chapter usually involves either the collection of 12 signatures or more from members in your area (note that all members of Graduate Student Member or above may sign the petition -- only affiliate CIS members and IEEE student members may not sign the chapter petition) or working via a 2-step 2-year process to form a joint chapter through a "Change of Status" of an existing chapter in the first year and then spinning it off as the standalone CIS Chapter in the second year.
 

Forming a joint chapter is the best option if the number of members in your region is low (i.e. 4-10) and usually involves joining forces with another existing chapter to share the load with. These options could further be delved into by contacting the IEEE CIS Chapters Sub-Committee Chair.
 

Want to check if a chapter already exists in your region ? Then go to: http://ieee-cis.org/members/chapters/. If there is one in your area, then go out and actively participate in it, otherwise, form one of your own! You will discover that it will be one of the most exciting and rewarding accomplishments of your professional life. You will find many new colleagues and friends. You will discover a world of networking and opportunities for developing your career. You will have plenty of fun!
 

Want more incentive ? If you form a new chapter this year, IEEE CIS will send you 15 CIS logo shirts to be distributed to the newly formed chapter members (the shirts would be sent to the Chapter Chair for distribution).
 

Rami Abielmona

Chair of IEEE Chapters Sub-Committee

CIS Awards Announcement

Posted: 2009-06-23

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2010 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society awards are to be bestowed to
 

Vladimir Vapnik, NEC Research, Inc., USA for Neural Networks Pioneer Award
 

Hideo Tanaka, Hiroshima International University, JAPAN for Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award
 

John Greffenstette, George Mason University, USA and David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA for Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
 

James M. Keller, University of Missouri, USA for Meritorious Services Award
 

Simon Coupland and Robert John, "Geometric Type-1 and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems? Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2007, pp. 3-15 for IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award
 

Qingfu Zhang and Hui Li, "MOEA/D: A Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Decomposition" Vol. 11, No.6, December 2007, pp. 712-731 for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
 

Argentina Chapter for Outstanding Chapter Award and
 

Michael Mavroforakis, "Geometric Approach to Statistical Learning Theory through Support Vector Machines with Application to Medical Diagnosis" for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
 

All nominations made were thoroughly discussed within the Award Committees and recommendations were made and approved by the Administrative Committee during its meeting on June 14th, 2009 at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. I would like to thank the nominators and awards committees (listed in Awards Committee webpage) for your efforts and devotion to recognize our peers through this awards program.
 

In addition, two new awards have been approved:
 

Outstanding Computational Intelligence Early Career Award is to recognize an outstanding young scientist or engineer (not over 40 years old in the calendar year when the recipient of the award is selected) who contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of computational intelligence through inventions, new technologies, innovative technical developments, new product implementations, or the management of innovative product design or production processes.
 

Outstanding Computational Intelligence Organization Award is to recognize an outstanding organization (corporations, governmental bodies, industrial laboratories that have been established prior to the calendar year when the recipient of the award is selected) that contributed to the advancement of theory, technologies, and/or applications of computational intelligence through inventions, new technology, innovative technical developments, new product implementation, or the management of innovative product design or production processes.
 
 
 

Gary G. Yen

Chair, Awards Committee

Call for Nominations for IEEE CIS ADCOM Elections - Term 2010-12

Posted: 2009-05-07

Each year, five members of the 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 http://ieee-cis.org.  

There are two ways to nominate a candidate:
 

1) via nomination through the 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 CIS Nominations Committee Chair, Vincenzo Piuri c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, CIS Executive Administrator j.e.snyder@ieee.org

The deadline for submitting nominations to the above email address is June 5, 2009.
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 2009 must include at least 120 valid signatures of Society members and need to be submitted in writing (no fax/emails acceptable) to CIS President, Dr. David Fogel c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, CIS Executive Administrator IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 445 Hoes Lane P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855

Nominations via petition must be received at the above postal address by August 15, 2009, and should contain the nominee's contact information and original signatures of members, their names and their membership numbers.

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, CIS Executive Administrator j.e.snyder@ieee.org
   

Vincenzo Piuri
Chair of IEEE CIS Nominations Committee

Call for Nominations for IEEE CIS ADCOM Elections - Special Election to fill in a Vacated Position

Posted: 2009-05-07

One position of the CIS ADCOM, in addition to the regular five 3-years term positions, will be elected in 2009 to fill in the term of a vacated position. The elected person will serve on the ADCOM till the end of 2009.  

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 http://ieee-cis.org.

As for the regular five 3-year term positions, also for this election there are two ways to nominate a candidate:

1) via nomination through the CIS Nominations Committee

2) via petition

Procedures and deadlines are the same of the call for nominations for the regular 3-year term positions.
   

Vincenzo Piuri
Chair of IEEE CIS Nominations Committee

Call for Nominations for 2010 CIS Officers Appointments

Posted: 2009-05-07

The following CIS Officers positions will become vacant in 2010 and need to be appointed during the ADCOM meeting on June 14, 2009:
- VP Finance
- VP Technical Activities
- 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 2004-08, and are both IEEE Members or higher-grade members and CIS members in good standing at the time of the election.  

The 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 appointed, by June 5, 2009. They should be submitted by email to CIS Nominations Committee Chair, Vincenzo Piuri c/o Jo-Ellen B. Snyder, CIS Executive Administrator j.e.snyder@ieee.org
   

Vincenzo Piuri
Chair of IEEE CIS Nominations Committee