Webinar: So you want to be an Academic? Some Tips and Tricks

Professor Bob John of University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, will give a live webinar to our IEEE CIS members and friends. The information of the webinar is shown below: 

Webinar arrangement 

Topic: 

So you want to be an Academic? Some Tips and Tricks 

Date and time:      

2:00 PM, Oct 23, 2013, BST  (London Time)

9:00 AM, Oct 23, 2013, EDT  (New York Time)

9:00 PM, Oct 23, 2013, HKT  (Hong Kong Time) 

Webinar ID: 

112-059-947 

Registration

The webinar is free-of-charge. We only have limited seats. First come first served.

Please register for "So you want to be an Academic? Some Tips and Tricks" on Oct 23, 2013 2:00 PM BST at: 

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5187699622185856768 

Webinar information

Speaker:

Professor Bob John, Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Group (ASAP), University of Nottingham, United Kingdom 

Abstract:

This webinar will be given by Bob John who has led two highly successful computational intelligence research groups (www.cci.dmu.ac.uk and www.asap.ac.uk) for more than 12 years. He will give his personal views, based on his experiences, of what's needed to become an academic. Although based in the United Kingdom the points he makes will broadly translate to other countries. He will discuss your best strategies for producing publications, the role of networking, looking for funding and generally how to get on the academic career ladder. 

Speaker's Biography:

Bob has a BSc Mathematics, a MSc in Statistics and a PhD in Fuzzy Logic. He worked in industry for 10 years as a mathematician and knowledge engineer developing knowledge based systems for British Gas and the financial services industry. Bob spent 24 years at De Montfort University in various roles including Head of Department, Head of School and Deputy Dean. He led the Centre for Computational Intelligence research group from 2001 until 2012. He has over 150 research publications of which about 50 are in international journals. Bob joined the University of Nottingham this year where he heads up the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) research group in the School of Computer Science. The ASAP research group carries out multi-disciplinary research into mathematical models and algorithms for a variety of real-world optimisation problems. ASAP has 8 academic staff, 9 researchers and over 30 PhD students.

Only limited seats are available. Please register as soon as possible. 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Second Annual CIS IEEE Video Competition

Following on from the first video competition, which produced two outstanding winning videos about fuzzy  logic, we invite you to produce an introductory 3-minute video about one of the following Computational  Intelligence fields of interest:

● Neural Networks
● Evolutionary Computation
● Hybrid Intelligent Systems

The winners of the previous competition can be seen at:
● www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q5X0nTmrA
● www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wY6mi1vV8

The aim of the video is to answer the question “what is...?”, for a Computational Intelligence field of interest, to an audience of high school students and the general public, with limited mathematical background. The video should also explain an example application of how the method can be used in everyday life. The video should be suitable for posting on YouTube and Facebook. The video competition is an exciting opportunity for all IEEE members to work together in conveying technical topics to nonexperts.

Prizes for entrants:

1st prize: 600USD + iPad* + CIS membership (1 year)
2nd prize: 500USD + CIS membership (1 year)
3rd prize: 400USD + CIS membership (1 year)

Prize for everyone: An iPad* will be raffled to anyone who “likes” a video on our www.facebook.com/IEEE.CIS page (excluding competition entrants and organisers).

Teams consist of 1 to 5 people. The team leader must be an IEEE member.

Registration deadline is 2nd September 2013.
Video submission deadline is 14th October 2013.
Winners will be notified on 1st December 2013.

Rules and submission details can be found at cis.ieee.org/videocomp. Please contact cis.ieee@gmail.com for specific queries.

*Disclaimer: The iPad prize does not apply to countries officially embargoed by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In accordance with U.S. law, IEEE is unable to provide such goods to OFAC embargoed countries. In the case where the first place winner comes from an OFAC embargoed country, no iPad 2 will be awarded.

IEEE CIS Second Annual Video Competition

This is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society blog.
 

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The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society is running its second annual video competition. The competition is to create a video on one of the following subjects:

• Neural Networks
• Evolutionary Computation
• Hybrid Intelligent Systems

The first prize is US$600, second prize is US$500, and third prize is US$400. Registration of interest must be received by the 1st of August, 2013, videos received by 14th of October, 2013, and the winners will be announced on the 1st of December, 2013.

More details can be found here.

Deadline Extension - IEEE CIS Facebook Photo Contest

This is cross-posted from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society blog.

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Due to many requests, we have decided to extend the deadline of the Facebook Photo Contest to September 30, 2012.

There will be three winners, each of them will get a free CIS membership for 2013. The best out of the three winners will get a FREE IPAD2. More information can be found at http://www.tinyurl.com/cisfb2012. If you have any questions, please send a email to cis.socialmedia@gmail.com.