The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award was established in 2004.

The award is named in honor of Frank Rosenblatt who is widely regarded as one of the founders of neural networks. Basing his research on the study of fly vision, he developed the single-layer input layer and an output layer of neural cells. Frequent presentation of a pattern or patterns resulted in changes in the input to output connections, facilitating future recognition of these patterns, or memory.  His work influenced and even anticipated many modern neural network approaches.

Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.

Presented to: An individual, multiple recipients, or a team of not more than three.

Scope: For outstanding contributions to biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms and systems.

Prize: The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

Basis for judging: In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: quality of the contribution; impact on the technical field and society as demonstrated by publications, patents, or other evidence; and the quality of the nomination.

Nomination deadline: endorsement letters are due 31 January annually.

Notification: Recipients are typically approved during the June IEEE Board of Directors meeting, usually held towards the end of the month. Recipients and their nominators will be notified following the meeting. Subsequently, the nominators of unsuccessful candidates will be notified of the status of their nomination.

Presentation: IEEE policy requires that its awards be presented at major IEEE events that are in keeping with the nature of the award and the cited achievement.

Sponsor: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

Eligibility: Please be sure to review the eligibility requirements to understand if your candidate is eligible to be nominated.

To submit a nomination please visit the IEEE Technical Fields Awards page. 

Following successful iterations of the IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Researcher Mentoring Program in previous years and over 100 alumni, in 2022, the program is back ‘bigger and better’ than ever, at WCCI 2022 in Padua, Italy.

We are hoping for an in-person mentoring program, matching student and early-career lead authors to experienced academics and leaders in the scientific community. Fostering interaction, and exchange of ideas, the program will encompass one-to-one feedback for participants across all three conferences.

Beyond the regular program, highlights for 2022 also include:

• IEEE CIS Transaction Paper Development Workshops (PDWs), led by the IEEE CIS flagship journals in all three communities, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

• Dedicated Networking Events, offering mentees the opportunity to engage with, and beyond their dedicated mentor, and build their network with other mentees.

Details will become available on the WCCI 2022 web page in early 2022. Looking forward to seeing you in Padua, Italy!

• IEEE TETCI Special Issue on Trusted Mobile Crowdsourcing for Next Generation Intelligent Transportation Systems (1 February 2022)
• IEEE TNNLS Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning Based Control: Data-Efficient and Resilient Methods (1 March 2022)
• IEEE TNNLS Special Issue on Explainable Representation Learning-based Intelligent Inspection and Maintenance of Complex Systems (1 April 2022)
• IEEE TNNLS Special Issue on Explainable and Generalizable Deep Learning for Medical Imaging (22 April 2022) 

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IEEE DSAA'2022

The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA’2022) features its strong interdisciplinary synergy between statistics (via ASA), computing and information/intelligence sciences (via IEEE and ACM), and cross-domain interactions between academia and business for data science and analytics. 

DSAA'2022 provides a premier forum that brings together researchers, industry and government practitioners, as well as developers and users of big data solutions for the exchange of the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and the best practice for a wide range of applications. DSAA'2022 invites submissions of papers describing innovative research on all aspects of data science and advanced analytics as well as application oriented papers that make significant, original, and reproducible contributions to improving the practice of data science and analytics in real-world scenarios. 

The submission deadline is 15 May 2022, and more details can be found on the IEEE DSAA'2022 website.

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Conference Calendar

By Marley Vellasco, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Leandro Minku, University of Birmingham, UK

 

* Denotes a CIS-Sponsored Conference

∆ Denotes a CIS Technical Co-Sponsored Conference

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∆ International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM 2022)

3-5 February 2022

Place: Vienna, Austria

General Chair: Ana Fred

Website: http://www.icpram.org/  

∆ International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2022)

3-5 February 2022

Place: Vienna, Austria

General Chair: Jaap van den Herik

Website: http://www.icaart.org/  

 

* 2022 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (IEEE CIFEr 2022)

4-5 May 2022

Place: Helsinki, Finland

General Chairs: Michael Kampouridis and Peter Sarlin

Website: http://cifer.risklab.fi/ 

 

∆ International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computational Intelligence (ICISCI 2022)

10-13 May 2022

Place: Changsha, China

General Chairs: Tingwen Huang and Chunhua Yang

Website: http://www.icisci2022.org/

 

∆ International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Sustainable Engineering Solutions (CISES-2022)

20-21 May 2022

Place: Greater Noida, India

General chair: Rajeev Agrawal

Website: TBA

* 2022 IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems (IEEE EAIS 2022)

25-27 May 2022

Place: Lanarca, Cyprus

General Chairs: George Papadopoulos

Website: http://cyprusconferences.org/eais2022/ 

∆ 19th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2022)

11-15 July 2022

Place: Milan, Italy

General Chair: Davide Ciucci

Website: https://ipmu2022.disco.unimib.it/  

 

* IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2022)

15-17 June 2022

Place: Chemnitz, Germany

General Chairs: Olfa Kanoun and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Website: TBA

∆ The Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS 2022)

23 June 2022

Place: Lucerne, Switzerland

General Chair: Melanie Geiger

Website: https://www.sds2022.ch/ 

* 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2022)

18-23 July  2022

Place: Padua, Italy

General Chairs: Marco Gori and Alessandro Sperduti

Website: https://wcci2022.org

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2022)

15-17 August 2022

Place: Ottawa, Canada

General Co-Chairs: Dan Ashlock

Website: TBA

 

* 2022 IEEE Conference on Games (IEEE CoG 2022)

21-24 August 2022

Place: Beijing, China

General Chairs: Dongbin Zhao and Simon M. Lucas

Website: TBA

 

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (IEEE ICDL 2022)

12-15 September 2022

Place: London, United Kingdom

General Chairs: Lorenzo Jamone and Yukie Nagai

Website: https://icdl-2021.org

 

* 2022 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (IEEE DSAA 2022)

13-16 October 2022

Place: Shenzhen, China

General Chairs: Joshua Huang, Gary Yen and Karoli Skala

Website: TBA

* IEEE Latin-America Conference on Computational Intelligence (IEEE LA-CCI 2022)

23-25 November 2022

Place: Montevideo, Urugay

General Chair: Martin Pedemonte and Hector Cancela

Website: TBA

* 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022)

4-7 December 2022

Place: Singapore

General Chairs: Ah-Hwee Tan and Dipti Srinivasan

Website: TBA

∆ 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-energy Systems (ICAICS 2022)

12-13 October 2022

Place: Beijing, China

General Chairs: Huaguang Zhang and Derong Liu

Website: TBA

* 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI 2023)

7-8 June 2023

Place: Santa Clara Valley, USA

General Chairs: Gary Fogel and Piero Bonissone

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2023)

2-5 July 2023

Place: Chicago, USA

General Chair: Gui de Souza

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2023)

13-17 August 2023

Place: Incheon, Korea

General Co-Chairs: Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee and Byung-Jae Choi

Website: TBA

 

* 2023 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-EpiRob 2023)

9-11 November 2023

Place: Macau, China

General Chair: Zhijun Li

Website: TBA

* 2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2023)

6-8 December 2023

Place: Mexico City, Mexico

General Chair: Wen Yu

Website: TBA

 

* 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI 2024)

30 June – 5 July 2024

Place: Yokohama, Japan

General Chairs: Akira Hirose and Hisao Ishibuchi

Website: TBA