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Support Jim Tien for 2006 President-Elect Past SMCS President Jim Tien is collecting signatures to qualify as a petition candidate for the position of 2006 IEEE President-Elect. SMCS members and friends who would like to support Jim's petition may visit the web site http://www.jimtien.com or send email to him at tienj@rpi.edu.
Research Activities
	Pioneering neural implant work at the University of Reading, UK The Cybernetics Intelligence Research Group (CIRG) at the University of Reading, UK, is made up of seven full-time academics plus various research assistants and PhD students. We broadly define cybernetic intelligence as the study of intelligence and its applications. Members of CIRG are internationally active in the following areas: embodied machine intelligence , neural networks , intelligent search , intelligent control, applied cognitive systems , neuroscience, and neural implant technology. Read more... ---- by Victor M. Becerra
	Script Visualization (ScriptViz): a smart system that makes writing fun We have built the first version of ScriptViz v.1.0 that allows users to visualize their screenplays in real time via animated graphics. Our system consists of a text understanding module, a high-level planning module and a scene generator. The user can input a screenplay as a set of well-formed English sentences via a graphic user interface. Read more... ---- by Zhi-Qiang Liu
Features
Report on IEEE SMC 2004 Enjoying drinks and having fun during the reception With almost 1100 papers in the proceedings, and over 1100 registrations, The IEEE SMC2004 International conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics exceeded expectations. Participation was truly international, with strong representations of Asia, Europe and North America. The largest numbers of registrations were from mainland China (222), Japan (191), The Netherlands (134), USA (95), Taiwan (68), France( 59) and the UK (55). About 770 registrants actually participated in the meeting which was held in the Netherlands Congress Centre in The Hague, Netherlands, Oct. 10-13. Read more... - by Wil Thissen
Student Experience at the SMC 2004 Conference in the Netherlands Student Finalists from left to right:Nasrine Bagheri, Machteld van der Vlugt, H. W. Boschloo, Hongwei Ding and Thorsten Meinl The IEEE SMC 2004 conference in The Hague, the Netherlands was a success. In a period of 3 days, about 500 international students descended onto the conference grounds to present the work they were contributing towards or were the main authors of. Read more... - by Anna Zyzniewski and Ioannis Patras