Computational Intelligence - August 2013 - 4

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Briefs

Robert Kozma
University of Memphis, USA
Cesare Alippi
Politecnico di Milano, ItAly

CIS University Curriculum Subcommittee
Report-Nurturing the Future of Computational Intelligence

Magdalena and his colleagues from
omputational Intelligence
the European Centre for Soft
(CI) is a relatively new
Computing, Spain. Interested readers
research field, which has
are encouraged to visit the database,
demonstrated an explosive develreview existing courses and explore
opment since the 80's. Despite the
the materials of the courses. We are
fact that a significant amount of
collecting course materials all over
educational material is accessible
the world. If you are involved in
and available, fundamental achieveeducation, you are encouraged to
ments have not been organized
make your course material available
into a comprehensive CI curricufor broader use through our database.
lum yet. To give a prosperous future
In this way, you increase your own
to the Society, we have to nurture
visibility, receive a useful feedback
undergraduate and graduate level
Example of a master course included in the UCSC
from the benefited and help the
students by means of high-quality database; "Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis",
community: a win-win situation.
and effective educational materials. European Centre for Soft Computing [2].
Courses with complete materials
This will attract talented and
Kozma (US, Chair of the subcommittee),
are assessed by our subcommittee. Once a
enthusiastic students as well as docuLuis Magdalena (Spain), Jose Iglesias Marcourse, present on a web site, and its
ment the progress of the field. Here, we
tinez (Spain, representing the Standards
online material has been reviewed for
discuss what we can do in our capacity
Committee), Janusz Kacprzyk (Poland),
completeness and accessibility, this course
of researchers and educators to achieve
LiPo Wang (Singapore), Mike Watts (Ausmay be recommended for CIS educators
this fundamental goal, and how the CIS
tralia). UCSC members provide a broad
and the course web site linked through
University Curriculum Subcommittee
geographic coverage as well as represent
the IEEE CIS Education Center http://
supports this activity.
the academic, government, and industry
education.ieee-cis.org/, to promote a
Progress in Main Focus Areas-
sectors. Each member participated in
wider availability.
The CIS University Curriculum Subworking groups to support three focus
committee (UCSC) http://cis.ieee.org/
areas so as to: (A) create and maintain the
university-curricula.html is part of the CIS
B. Computational
university curriculum database; (B) proEducation Committee http://cis.ieee.org/
Intelligence Textbooks
mote the creation of textbooks on Comeducation.html, and promotes the develAlthough there are hundreds of relevant
putational Intelligence; (C) maintain visiopment and proliferation of Computatextbooks, there is still space and need
bility and web presence. The present status
tional Intelligence courses in the underfor comprehensive textbooks presenting
of the activities is as follows.
graduate and graduate curricula. The
a truly integrated approach to CI as an
following members are involved in the
emerging discipline. The success of this task
work of the UCSC: Damien Coyle
would strengthen Computational Intelligence
A. Database of University Courses
(Northern Ireland, UK), Bruno DiStefano
on a long-term basis. At the same time, our
on Computational Intelligence
(Canada), Simona Doboli (US), Peter Erdi
goal is to reach our members and make
At present, we have a database of over 100
(US & Hungary), Haibo He (US), Robert
them understand the great opportunity
courses covering various aspects of comassociated with the design of education
putational intelligence taught both at
textbooks at the University level. Major
undergraduate
and
graduate
levels,
see
[1].
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCI.2013.2264228
action items include:
The database has been created by Luis
Date of publication: 12 July 2013

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