October 8-9, 2016 Be a part of the world’s largest Brain Hackathon. Over $8,000 in cash and hardware prizes. What is a Hackathon? Hackathons are brainstorming and collaborative marathons designed to rapidly produce working prototypes. Conventional hackathons typically bring developers and technologists together over 24, 36, 48, or more hours to cram and build solutions…
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SMC Distinguished Lecture – Italy – SMC Italy Chapter Event
Prof. Daniel S. Yeung held at the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) on May 15-16, 2016 the IEEE DL talk, “The Big Data Challenge: From Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Perspective”. The talk is a Lecture in the DL program of the SMCS organized by the Systems, Man, & Cybernetics Italy Chapter (Chair Maria Pia Fanti…
Read More >SMC Distinguished Lecture – UK & Ireland – SMC Portsmouth Chapter Event
IEEE SMC Portsmouth Chapter hosted an IEEE Distinguished Lecture given by Prof. Daniel S. Yeung, the Past President of the IEEE SMC and a Fellow of IEEE, who has worked as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, as a Research Scientist in the General Electric Corporate Research Center,…
Read More >2016 Activities of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security
‘Homeland Security’: Today and Beyond Francesco Flammini, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member Chairman, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security Recently, there has been a change in the leadership of the Technical Committee on Homeland Security of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) society [1]. The new TC co-chairs represent three different continents (Europe, Asia…
Read More >2016 Report on Activities of IEEE-SMC Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems
The Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems has organized at the WODES 2016 (Workshop on Discrete Event Systems in Xi’An China, May 30 – June 1 2016) the successful special session on Discrete Event Systems Approaches in Logistics and Transportation Systems. The special session was organized by Maria Pia Fanti, Meng Chu Zhou and Walter…
Read More >Call for Proposals for 2020 SMC Annual Conference to be Held in the Americas
Call for Proposals The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) is soliciting proposals to its members for the IEEE SMCS 2020 Conference to be held in the Americas (Regions 1-7 and 9) in October 2020. Deadline for Proposals The deadline for the IEEE SMC 2020 proposals is August 25, 2016. The SMCS Board of…
Read More >Keith Hipel Receives American and Japanese Awards
Keith Hipel, who is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and currently holds the position of Past President of the Academy of Science (Royal Society of Canada), has been an active member of our IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society for twenty-five years. On October 15th, 1996, Keith was…
Read More >Editorial
Dear Readers, This is the number two issue of the IEEE SMC Society eNewsletter for 2016. The current e-Newsletter is packed with content on Society news: among many others, do not miss the Call for nominations of the Society Board of Governors and the Call for Proposals for the 2020 SMC Annual Conference to be…
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