Thursday, July 7, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ISSNIP 2011
The deadline for submitting papers to the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2011 is 31 July 2011. This conference will be held in Adelaide, Australia, 6-9 December, 2011.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ICFSNC 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Neural Computing (ICFSNC) 2012 is 30 November 2011. This conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain, April 11-13, 2012.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Universities are Important
I'm going a little bit off the topic of this blog in this post, but since most of the research in computational intelligence is done at universities it's still relevant. In a post at the Forbes.com blog, Nathan Furr discusses four myths on why universities don't matter anymore (they do). The most salient are the top three:
1) You can teach yourself everything
2) You can teach yourself everything online
3) I don't use anything I learned at college
In regards to 1) and 2), from my own experience some students do think that: one comment on a course evaluation for the data processing course I taught in 2003 was along the lines of "this course doesn't teach anything that an enterprising student couldn't learn online". The counterpoint to that is that if they hadn't done my course, they wouldn't know what they would need to teach themselves. In other words, they wouldn't know that they didn't know.
In regards to number 3, people who say that probably just don't realise that they are using stuff they learned at university. In my own case, my undergraduate education is in software engineering and systems development, my PhD is in computational intelligence, and now I do research in ecological modelling. With every project I do in ecological modelling, I have been able to apply what I learned as either an undergrad or during my PhD.
I've spent my professional life working at universities, and I will be the first to admit that, like every human enterprise, they have their flaws: I've seen people promoted because of their political skill rather than their research, teaching skill, or managerial ability, only to have them run their departments into the ground. I've seen people build entire careers on a single piece of research, then spend the rest of their lives giving the same talk over and over again. But universities do far more useful things than bad things, so they are worth keeping around.
1) You can teach yourself everything
2) You can teach yourself everything online
3) I don't use anything I learned at college
In regards to 1) and 2), from my own experience some students do think that: one comment on a course evaluation for the data processing course I taught in 2003 was along the lines of "this course doesn't teach anything that an enterprising student couldn't learn online". The counterpoint to that is that if they hadn't done my course, they wouldn't know what they would need to teach themselves. In other words, they wouldn't know that they didn't know.
In regards to number 3, people who say that probably just don't realise that they are using stuff they learned at university. In my own case, my undergraduate education is in software engineering and systems development, my PhD is in computational intelligence, and now I do research in ecological modelling. With every project I do in ecological modelling, I have been able to apply what I learned as either an undergrad or during my PhD.
I've spent my professional life working at universities, and I will be the first to admit that, like every human enterprise, they have their flaws: I've seen people promoted because of their political skill rather than their research, teaching skill, or managerial ability, only to have them run their departments into the ground. I've seen people build entire careers on a single piece of research, then spend the rest of their lives giving the same talk over and over again. But universities do far more useful things than bad things, so they are worth keeping around.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Call for papers: WSDM 2012
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2012 is 4 August 2011, while the deadline for submitting full papers is 11 August 2011. This conference will be held in Seattle, Washington, February 8-12 2012.
Call for papers: SIAM SDM 12
The deadline for submitting papers to the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2012 is 14 October 2011. This conference will be held in Anaheim, California, April 26-28, 2012.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Call for papers: ISNN 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the 2012 International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012) is 15 January 2012. This symposium will be held in Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012.
I visited Shenyang in 2005 and found it to be energetic but also very friendly. Shenyang is easily my favourite city in China and I look forward to visiting again.
I visited Shenyang in 2005 and found it to be energetic but also very friendly. Shenyang is easily my favourite city in China and I look forward to visiting again.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Teaching Materials Online
I have just made lecture materials from my undergraduate computational intelligence course available online. The lectures cover rule-based systems, fuzzy logic, artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and hybrid systems. The lectures are available at: http://mike.watts.net.nz/Teaching/
These lectures were presented in the course INFO 331, Intelligent Information Systems, during my time at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Also available at the above address are lectures I presented for the course INFO 233, Data Processing.
These lectures were presented in the course INFO 331, Intelligent Information Systems, during my time at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Also available at the above address are lectures I presented for the course INFO 233, Data Processing.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Deadline extended: AI 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011) has been extended from 28 June 2011 to 15 July 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia, 5th to 8th December, 2011.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Call for papers: ICIST 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies (ICIST) 2012 is December 30, 2011. This conference will be held in Tokyo, Japan, 29-31 May 2012.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Paper deadline: EAIS 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (EAIS) 2012 is 1 November 2011. This conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, 17-18 May, 2012.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Call for papers: CINTI 2011
The deadline to submit papers to the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI) 2011 is September 30 2011. This conference will be held in Budapest, Hungary, November 21-22 2011.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Call for papers: ICCIEA 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Engineering Applications (ICCIEA) 2011 is 1 September 2011. This conference will be held in Bhubaneswar, India, 16-17 October, 2011.
Call for papers: Collective Intelligence 2012
The deadline for papers submitted to the 2012 conference on Collective Intelligence is 4 November, 2011. This conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 18-20, 2012.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Conference paper deadline: MMIS 2011
The deadline for submitting papers to the 5th International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-11) is July 23, 2011. This workshop will be held in Vancouver, Canada, December 10 2011.
Conference paper deadline: ICAISC 2012
The paper submission deadline for the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC) 2012 is 20 October, 2011. This conference will be held in Zakopane, Poland, April 29 - May 3, 2012.
Paper submission deadline: IEA AIE 2012
The paper submission deadline for the 25th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA AIE) 2012 is 11 November, 2011. This conference will be held in Dalian, China, June 9-12, 2012.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Conference paper deadline: ICPRAM 2012
The deadline for submitting papers to the 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2012 is 26 July 2011. This conference will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal, 6-8 February 2011.
Paper submission deadline: PICom 2011
The deadline for papers submitted to the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICOM) 2011 is July 15 2011. This conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, December 12-14 2011.
Paper submission deadline: PAKDD 2012
The deadline for submitting abstracts to the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2012 is 25 September 2011. This conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur 29 May - 1 June, 2012.
Conference paper deadline: SAMI 2012
The paper submission deadline to the 10th IEEE International Symposium and Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI) 2012 is 31 October 2011. This symposium will be held January 26-28 2011 in Herl'any, Slovakia.
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