Conference paper deadline: iCAST 2011

The deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd International Conference on Awareness Science and Technology (iCAST 2011) is June 1, 2011. This conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and will be held in Dalian, China, September 27-30, 2011.

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Social Media Presences

The Computational Intelligence Society of the IEEE now has presences on social media sites:

Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn

These presences result from the work of the Computational Intelligence Society's Social Media Subcommittee, which I have the privilege of serving on.

Conference paper deadline: ICAIS 2011

The deadline for submitting papers to the International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems 2011 (ICAIS 2011) is June 10, 2011. This conference is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and will be held in Klagenfurt, Austria, September 6-8, 2011.

Competition: describe fuzzy logic in a video

Via the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society's Twitter feed comes word of the following competition: Create a video that explains fuzzy logic and its applications to an audience of high school students or the general public in a format suitable for posting on YouTube.

First prize is $3000, second prize is $2000 and third prize is $1000. Interest must be registered by the 10th of June and the deadline for submitting videos is the 10th of September.

Call for second-round submissions: ICNS'11-FSKD'11

The deadline for second-round submissions to the The 7th International Conference on Natural Computation and The 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (ICNS'11-FSKD'11) is 16 May 2011. These conferences will be held jointly in Shanghai, China, 26-28 July, 2011.

Science writing doesn't have to be boring writing

A brief article by Jo Marchant at the Guardian shows that scientific writing doesn't have to be dry and boring.

Writing scientific papers is an essential part of any scientist's job. They are the primary means by which scientists communicate their techniques and findings to other scientists, and they are increasingly becoming the primary metric by which the value of a scientist is measured. During my career, I've read probably thousands of published papers, reviewed about a hundred papers as part of the peer-review process, and written more than fifty papers of my own. But how many of them were written really well? Not many at all - and I include my own papers in this statement, some of which send even me to sleep.

Scientific writing does need to be as unambiguous of possible, and computational intelligence papers have the disadvantage of often requiring a fair amount of mathematics. But is it really that difficult to introduce more of a narrative to our papers? And would reviewers allow such papers to be published?

Conference paper deadline: SMAP 2011

The paper submission deadline for the 6th International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2011) is May 10, 2011. This workshop is co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and will be held in Vigo, Spain, December 1-2, 2011.