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Awards Nominations
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's awards recognize top achievements and outstanding volunteers in the field. Here is a list of the current awards:
IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award (Awarded by IEEE),
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, and
Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award.
The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
The award, established in 2004, is named in honor of Frank Rosenblatt, who is regarded as one of the founders of neural networks. Basing his research on study of fly vision, he developed the single-layer input layer and an output layer of neural cells. Frequent presentation of a pattern or patterns resulted in changes in the input to output connections, facilitating future recognition of these patterns, or memory. His work influenced and anticipated many modern neural network approaches.
This award will be presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms including but not limited to neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.
This award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients, or a team of not more than three members. This award is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board. Prize items include a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.
Recipients
2008: Teuvo Kohonen (For outstanding contributions to the advancement of the theory and applications of neural networks, associative memories and the self-organizing map)
2007: James C. Bezdek (For development of the theory and applications of the fuzzy c-means and related pattern recognition methods)
2006: Lawrence J. Fogel (For extraordinary and pioneering achievements in computational intelligence and evolutionary computation)
The Nomination Deadline for this award is 31 January. Please refer to the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award page in the IEEE Technical Field Awards site.
The next deadline for nomination for all IEEE CIS Awards is April 30, 2008. The nomination should be made through the web-based nomination system at
http://ieee-cis.org/awards_nomination/
Description
To recognize significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the Neural Networks field.
Prize
$2,500 honorarium, Medallion and travel support for recipient and companion to attend presentation. Up to three (3) awards made annually.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Open to all.
Basis for Judging
Significance of contribution made at least 15 years prior to award date.
Presentation
At the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks or another major CIS conference.
Recipients
2008: Gail Carpenter
2008: Kumpati S. Narendra
2007: Michael Jordan
2006: Erkki Oja
2006: Donald Specht
2005: Carver Mead
2004: Andrew Barto
2003: Kunihiko Fukishima
2002: Terrence J. Sejnowski
2001: James McClelland
2001: David E. Rumelhart
2000: Leon Chua
1999: Robert Hecht-Nielsen
1998: Geoffrey E. Hinton
1997: John J. Hopfield
1995: Michael A. Arbib
1995: Nils J. Nilsson
1995: Paul J. Werbos
1994: Christoph von der Malsburg
1993: Thomas M. Cover
1992: Shun-Ichi Amari
1992: Walter Freeman
1991: Stephen Grossberg
1991: Teuvo Kohonen
1991: Bernard Widrow
Description
To recognize significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the field of fuzzy systems.
Prize
$2,500 honorarium, Medallion and travel grant for the honoree and companion to awards ceremony. Up to three (3) awards made annually.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Open to all meeting the contribution requirements: contributions must have been made at least 15 years prior to award date.
Basis for Judging
Overall quality. The high prestige of this award mandates a full case development for the nominee's achievements, including significant External letters of recommendation for the nominee.
Presentation
At the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems or another major CIS conference.
Recipients
2008: Jerry M. Mendel
2008: Takeshi Yamakawa
2007: James M. Keller
2007: George Klir
2006: Janusz Kacprzyk
2005: Enric Trillas
2004: Ronald Yager
2003: Ebrahim J. Mamdani
2002: Didier Dubois and Henri Prade
2001: Jim Bezdek
2000: Michio Sugeno
2000: Lotfi Zadeh
Description
To recognize significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the field of evolutionary computation.
Prize
$2,500 honorarium, Medallion and travel grant for the honoree and companion to awards ceremony. Up to three (3) awards made annually.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Open to all meeting the contribution requirements: contributions must have been made at least 15 years prior to award date.
Basis for Judging
Overall quality.
Presentation
At the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation or another major CIS conference.
Recipients
2008: David B. Fogel
2005: Kenneth De Jong
2004: Richard Friedberg
2003: John H. Holland
2002: Ingo Rechenberg
2002: Hans-Paul Schwefel
2001: Michael Conrad
2000: George Box
1999: Alex S. Fraser
1998: Lawrence J. Fogel
Description
To recognize meritorious service to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Prize
$1,500 and Certificate. Up to two (2) awards made annually.
Eligibility
Must be or have been a member or associate member of an IEEE Society.
Basis for Judging
Exceptional administrative, managerial and leadership achievement; proposal and/or implementation of innovative new CIS programs; dedication to the growth and advancement of CIS and its geographic and technical entities.
Presentation
At a major IEEE CIS Conference.
Recipients
2008: Jacek M. Zurada
2007: David B. Fogel
2006: Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou
2005: Piero P. Bonissone
2004: Enrique H. Ruspini
2003: Clifford Lau
2002: Walter Karplus
2001: James C. Bezdek
2000: Robert J. Marks
Description
To recognize annually the outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks two years prior to the Award decision. For the next round of competition (to be bestowed in 2008), papers published in 2006 will be eligible for consideration.
Prize
$1,000, to be split equally among co-authors and Certificate to author or co-authors of the selected paper.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Authors of all papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks on the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the selection of the award are eligible.
Basis for Judging
Overall quality.
Presentation
Awards winners will be announced publicly in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Additional recognition will be given at the annual IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks or another major CIS conference.
Award Name (amended 2006)
"IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding NNNN Paper Award (bestowed in NNNN+2)," where NNNN is the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the year of selection of the award. The award bestowed in 2008 will be for a paper published in 2006.
Recipients
Published in 2005 (bestowed in 2007): DL Wang, The Time Dimension for Scene Analysis, vol. 16, no. 6.
Published in 2004 (bestowed in 2006): J. Kwok and I. Tsang, "The pre-image problem in kernel methods," vol. 15, no. 6, 2004.
Published in 2003: L. Rutkowski and K. Cpalka, "Flexible neuro-fuzzy systems," vol. 14, no. 3, 2003.
Published in 2003: J. Lu, K. N. Plataniotis and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, "Face recognition using kernel direct discriminant analysis algorithms," vol. 14, no. 1, 2003.
Published in 2001: M. Baglietto, T. Parisini, and R. Zoppoli, "Distributed-information neural control: the case of dynamic routing in traffic networks," vol. 12, no. 3, 2001.
Published in 2000: George N. Karystinos and Dimitris A. Pados, "On overfitting, generalization and randomly expanded training sets," vol. 5, no. 5, 2000.
Published in 1999: R. Eckhorn, "Neural mechanisms of scene segmentation: recordings from the visual cortex suggest basic circuits for linking field models," vol. 10, no. 3, 1999.
Published in 1998: Yasuo Matsuyama, "Multiple descent cost competition: restorable self-organization and multimedia information processing," vol. 9, no. 1, 1998.
Description
To recognize annually the outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems two years prior to the Award decision. For the next round of competition (to be bestowed in 2008), papers published in 2006 will be eligible for consideration.
Prize
$1,000, to be split equally among co-authors and Certificate to author or co-authors of the selected paper.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Authors of all papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems on the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the selection of the award are eligible.
Basis for Judging
Overall quality.
Presentation
Awards winners will be announced publicly in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Additional recognition will be given at awards ceremonies at the annual IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems or another major CIS conference.
Award Name (established 1997, amended 2006)
"IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding NNNN Paper Award (bestowed in NNNN+2)," where NNNN is the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the year of selection of the award. The award bestowed in 2008 will be for a paper published in 2006.
Recipients
Published in 2005 (bestowed in 2007):C-L Chen, G. Feng, D. Sung, X-P Wang, H_infinity Control of Discrete-time Fuzzy Systems with application to Chaos Control, vol. 13, no. 4
Published in 2004 (bestowed in 2006): H. Hagras, "A hierarchical type-2 fuzzy logic control architecture for autonomous mobile robots," vol. 12, no. 4, 2004.
Published in 2003: L. Kuncheva, "Fuzzy versus non-fuzzy in combining classifiers designed by boosting," vol. 11, no. 6, 2003.
Published in 2002: D. Dubois, E. Hüllermeier, and H. Prade, "Fuzzy set-based methods in instance-based reasoning," vol. 10, no. 3, 2002.
Published in 2001: S. Guillaume, "Designing fuzzy inference systems from data: an interpretability-oriented review," vol. 9, no. 3, 2001.
Published in 2000: M. A. Mohammed and P. Gader, "Generalized hidden Markov models - parts I and II," 2000.
Published in 1999: N. N. Karnik, J. M. Mendel and Q. Liang, "Type-2 fuzzy logic systems," vol. 7, no. 6, 1999.
Published in 1998: J. Joh, Y. Chen, and R. Langari, "On the stability of issues of linear Tagaki-Sugeno fuzzy models," vol. 6, no. 3, 1998.
Description
To recognize annually the outstanding paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation two years prior to the Award decision. For the next round of competition (to be bestowed in 2008), papers published in 2006 will be eligible for consideration.
Prize
$1,000, to be split equally among co-authors and Certificate to author or co-authors of the selected paper.
Funding
Funded by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Eligibility
Authors of all papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation on the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the selection of the award are eligible.
Basis for Judging
Overall quality
Presentation
Awards winners will be announced publicly in the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. Additional recognition will be given at awards ceremonies at the annual IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation or another major CIS conference.
Award Name (established 1997, amended 2006)
"IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding NNNN Paper Award (bestowed in NNNN+2)," where NNNN is the calendar year that is 2 years prior to the year of selection of the award. The award bestowed in 2008 will be for a paper published in 2006.
Recipients
Published in 2005 (bestowed in 2007): C. Blum and M. Dorigo, Search Bias in Ant-Colony Optimization: On the role of Competition-balanced Systems, vol. 9, no. 2
Published in 2004 (bestowed in 2006): A. Pruegel-Bennett, "Symmetry breaking in population-based optimization," vol. 8, no. 1, 2004.
Published in 2003: J. Knowles and D. Corne, "Properties of an adaptive archiving algorithm for storing nondominated vectors," vol. 7, no. 2, 2003.
Published in 2002: M. Clerc and J. Kennedy, "The particle swarm explosion: stability and convergence in a multi-dimensional complex space," vol. 6, no. 1, 2002.
Published in 2001: A. Sierra, J. A. Macias and F Corbacho, "Evolution of functional link networks," vol. 5, no. 1, 2001.
Published in 2000: C. Dimopoulous and A. M. S. Zalzala, "Recent developments in evolutionary computation for manufacturing optimization: problems, solutions, and comparisons," vol. 4, no. 2, 2000.
Published in 1999: A. E. Eiben, R. Hinterding, and Z. Michalewicz, "Parameter control in evolutionary algorithms," vol. 3, no. 2, 1999.
Description
To recognize the chapter that is judged to have provided the greatest overall contribution and service to its members; the local scientific, professional, governmental, and educational
communities; and the IEEE CIS. To stimulate the Chapters activities the award will be sponsored for at least 5 years.
Prize
The award is and consists of $2,000 prize given to the Chapter and a recognition certificate issued in the name of the winning Chapter and each of the Officers.
Administration
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Funds
IEEE CIS Award Committee.
Eligibility
All CIS Chapters are eligible. The achievements that will be evaluated in a comprehensive way are:
- the list of activities that have been actually realized,
- the innovative ideas to promote CIS and serve the local scientific, professional, governmental, and educational communities,
- the dissemination activities about the chapter and society events,
- the ability of chapter to recruit and retain members.
Each aspect composing the global evaluation of the Chapter performance should be briefly described by providing appropriate information, as follows:
- the list of realized activities should be described by specifying at least type, title, dates, location, scope, and number of participants for each event,
- the innovative idea for a realized activity should be described by specifying at least type, title, dates, location, scope, number of participants, benefits,
role of the Chapter, outcomes, and novelty with respect to conventional Chapter activities,
- the dissemination activities consists of the Chapter web site,
- the recruitment/retention ability should be described by the Chapter membership development plan and the result of these actions.
All material submitted for the evaluation must be in English. The achievement time period is the prior calendar year. The same Chapter will not receive the award more than two
consecutive years.
Recipients
2008: Poland Chapter
2007: Mexico Chapter
2006: Chile Chapter
Description
This award recognizes outstanding Ph.D. dissertations that have contributed to the advancement of the theory and/or applications of computational intelligence. For the next round of competition (to be selected in 2008 and bestowed in 2009), all PhD dissertation completed in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 wiill be eligible for consideration.
Prize
The award is annual, and consists of $1,000 prize and a recognition certificate.
Eligibility
All PhD dissertations in theory and/or applications of computational intelligence for which the PhD degree has been granted up to the fourth year (included) prior to the calendar year when the recipient of the award is selected are eligible. The criteria employed in the evaluation of nominated dissertations are:
- PhD dissertation,
- list of publications in journals and conference proceedings generated by the research reported in the PhD dissertation,
- up to five reference letters by scientists or professionals who have not been involved in the research performed by the applicant/nominee, and
- if applicable, other outcomes that constitute tangible items usable by the scientific and professional communities.
The dissertation and other supporting material should be submitted in English.
Nominee Solicitation
Nominations should be made through the CIS online nomination system. Nominations may be resubmitted for up to three years.
Recipients
2008: Damien Coyle, Intelligent Preprocessing and Feature Extraction Techniques for a Brain Computer Interface, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK, 2006
2007: Juwei Lu, Discriminant Learning for Face Recognition, University of Toronto, 2004
The next deadline for nomination for all IEEE CIS Awards is April 30, 2008. The nomination should be made through the web-based nomination system at
http://ieee-cis.org/awards_nomination/
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