Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 88, March 2026
Editorial
Featured Article
Academic Corner
- Mentorship Advice for new Faculty, by Prof. Vladik Kreinovich
- Meet SMC Member Balint Varga
- Meet SMC Member Antonia Tzemanaki
Industry Corner
Student Corner
- Meet the new Student AE, Oluwatosin Kolade
- This Month in History
- This Has Fiction Become Science Yet?
- This SMCS Student Bingo
Society News
- About the Society
- Board of Governors
- Welcome to seven new SMC Student Branch Chapters from India: (1) SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Ramapuram, (2) National Institute of Technology, Puducherry, (3) S.A. Engineering College, (4) Gogte Institute of Technology, (5) R.M.K. College of Engineering and Technology, (6) M. Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Karur, (7) P.A. College of Engineering, Mangalore.
- Welcome to four new SMCS Chapters around the globe: (1) Suzhou Chapter (Nanjing Section), (2) Vietnam Chapter, (3) Kolkata Chapter, and (4) Northeast Brazil Chapter.
- SMCS member in the news: Please join us in congratulating Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk on (1) being elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, and (2) being awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Congratulations, Prof. Kacprzyk!
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Peng Shi’s lecture at Chongqing University, China
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Zongli Lin’s lectures at Lingnan University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Tadahiko Murata’s lectures at University College Dublin and Ulster University, Ireland
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Haibin Zhu’s lectures at (1) Dalhousie University, Canada, (2) Fudan University, China , and (3) Sun Yat-sen University, China
- Call for Proposals for 2027 IEEE SMCS Summer School/Workshops
- Announcement of the IEEE SMCS PhD Thesis Grant Initiative 2026
- Report on the IEEE SMCS Summer School on Quantum Cybernetics and AI
- Report on the IEEE CAI Conference, by Robert Kozma and Enrique Viedma
- Report on AI Challenges, Future of AI, and Future Beyond AI – Notes from the IEEE CAI Conference in Granada, by Vladik Kreinovich and Olga Kosheleva
- Report on the SMCS Workshop on Inclusive Design, by Mufti Mahmud
- Report on the 6th IEEE Conference on Cybernetics (IEEE CybConf 2026)
- Report on IMED-2026 and TIC-2026, two SMCS technically sponsored conferences, by Valliappan Raju
- Announcement of a new TC on Enterprise Systems, Enterprise Architecture, and Engineering
Call for Participation and Call for Papers:
- Call for participation, 2026 IEEE
SMCS SAR Competition. - Call for participation, Second IEEE
International Symposium on E-CARGO and Applications and the IEEE International Summer School on Social
Intelligence, July 13-15, 2026, Meizhou, China. - Call for participation, IEEE SMC ICHMS
2026 at NTU Singapore; July 1-3, 2026. - Call for Participation, 2nd International
Symposium on Machine Learning and Media Computing (MLMC 2026), July 27-30, 2026 - Call for Participation, IEEE SMC 2026, October
4-7, 2026, Bellevue, WA, USA. - Call for Participation, 1st IEEE SMC AI-Powered Collaborative Autonomy
(AICA) Challenge
at SMC 2026. - Call for Papers, 3rd IEEE Conference on
Telepresence, (November 9-13, 2026), Bristol, UK.
Society Publications Table of Contents:
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
Call for Papers for Special Issues:
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Submission Guidelines
This eNewsletter aims to serve SMC society members by providing a useful platform for information exchange. News is published on an ongoing basis and can be accessed free of charge on the Society’s website.
The eNewsletter invites submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Featured Articles: research ideas, discussions on emerging areas, debatable issues
- Research Activities: information about a research group and its activities
- Meeting Reports: information about conferences and workshops
- Call for papers/participants: books, special issues, conferences, workshops
- Technical Committees: TC activities
- Local Chapters: chapter activities
- Research Opportunities: job openings, funding opportunities
Please submit articles in Word format, which should contain all text, diagrams, images, and your photo, biography and contact information (name, email address, and website), to Professor Tiago H. Falk at [email protected].
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