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.

Conference paper deadline: ICIC 2011

The deadline for paper submitted to the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2011) is May 20, 2011. This deadline has been shifted back from April 20. The date for notification of paper acceptance is April 30, so time travel may be involved. This conference will be held in Zhengzhou, China, August 11 - 14, 2011.

Conference submission deadline: INMIC 2011

The deadline for abstracts submitted to the 2011 14th International Multitopic Conference (INMIC) is June 10 2011. This conference deals with a wide range of topics (hence the name) including artificial intelligence and fuzzy systems. The conference will be held in Karachi, Pakistan, December 22-24, 2011.

Conference paper deadline: CSE-11

The deadline for papers submitted to the ICGST International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering 2011 (CSE-11) is 15 August 2011. This conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, 19-21 December, 2011.

Registration for IJCNN 2011 Open

Registration for the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks is now open. This conference will be held in San Jose, California, 31 July - 5 August, 2011.

Register at http://www.ijcnn2011.org/registration.php by June 30 for a reduced rate.

IJCNN is one of the leading conference on artificial neural networks. It is jointly sponsored by the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Upcoming webinar

From the IEEE computational intelligence society:

IEEE CIS Webinar

Title: "Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controllers: A way Forward for Fuzzy Systems in Real World Environments"

Speaker: Prof. Hani Hagras, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex (UK)

Date: April 26, 2011, Tuesday

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. (EDT) (i.e., Toronto, Ontario) or 3:00 p.m.– 4:30 p.m. (BST, i.e., British Summer Time) (i.e., London, UK)

Website: http://ieee-cis.org/members/webinars/

FuzzyCOPE 3

After many years of being absent from the web, the FuzzyCOPE 3 website is now back online.

I developed FuzzyCOPE 3 at the University of Otago in 1998-1999. FuzzyCOPE 3 is an integrated environment for data processing and fuzzy-neural network modelling. After I left Otago, it was taken off of the web, but I've noticed that people are still searching for it. So, for historical reasons, I have decided to put it back up. There won't be any more bug fixes or updates, but hopefully people will find it useful. Also, there probably won't be a FuzzyCOPE 4, unless someone wants to pay me to do it.

The new address for FuzzyCOPE 3 is http://software.watts.net.nz/FuzzyCOPE3/

A paper describing FuzzyCOPE 3 is available here. The complete citation for this paper is:

1999 - Watts, M., Woodford, B., and Kasabov N., FuzzyCOPE - A Software Environment for Building Intelligent Systems - the Past, the Present and the Future, in: Emerging Knowledge Engineering and Connectionist-based Systems, Proceedings of the ICONIP/ANZIIS/ANNES’99 Workshop "Future directions for intelligent systems and information sciences", Dunedin, 22-23 Nov.1999, N.Kasabov and K.Ko (eds) 188-192.

Conference paper deadline: AI 2011

The deadline for papers submitted to the 24th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2011) is 28 June 2011. This conference will be held in Perth, Western Australia, 5th to 8th December, 2011.