Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Conference paper deadline: IEEE CIG 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Games (IEEE CIG 2011) is 30 March 2011. This conference will be held in Seoul, Korea, 31 August to 3 September, 2011.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Conference paper deadline: RAICS 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS) 2011 is 28 February 2011. This conference will be held in Thiruvananthapuram, India, 22-24 September, 2011.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Conference paper deadline: KES 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the 15th conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2011) is March 1st 2011. This conference will be held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, 12-14 September, 2011.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Conference paper deadline: ICARIS 2011

The paper submission deadline for the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS 2011) is 28th February 2011. This conference will be held at the University of Cambridge, UK, 18-21 July, 2011.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Conference paper deadline: ICONIP 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2011 is June 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Shanghai, China, November 14-17, 2011.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Associate Professor Mark Laws

I returned home from holiday yesterday to the heart-breaking news that Associate Professor Mark Laws had drowned. He leaves behind his wife, three daughters and five grandchildren.

Mark was a gifted researcher, a loving and devoted husband and father, and my friend.

Mark and I did our PhDs together in the old Knowledge Engineering Lab at the University of Otago. For years we shared an office, worked together, and partied together. With a handful of others from the lab, he made my time as a post-grad not only bearable, but fun.

He was devoted to his family - I still remember how proud he was of his daughters achievements, and how happy he was when his first grand-child was born. It's for them that I feel the most.

Over the last few years we hadn't seen each other as much as we would have liked, but every time I saw him, he had a big smile and welcoming hug for me. I learned so much from him and I'm immensely grateful to have had him in my life.

I still can't believe that he's gone.