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❏ A comprehensive thinking of what a

good CI curriculum should need.
What is available now, what is used by
various universities? Examples of successful textbooks. What is missing
there? It would be very useful to have
a well-thought out list of topics, from a
holistic viewpoint, for introductory, as
well as for advanced textbooks. A feedback from students who took CI
courses would provide crucial support
in answering the above questions.
❏ Some of our members work actively
on new comprehensive textbooks.
We need to identify gaps in CI curricula and provide incentive to fill
the gaps by writing textbooks. We
have a discussion group at http://
watts.net.nz/forum/; interested fellows are strongly encouraged to join
and contribute.
❏ We had a Panel at WCCI2012 in Brisbane on "Computational Intelligence
in Education and University Curricula," refer to the inset in the previous
page. The Panel extensively discussed
textbook issues; the lessons learnt are
given at http://computational-intelligence.blogspot.com/2012/05/wcci2012-panel-session-on.html.

Editor 's Remarks

We work to continuously maintain the
updated web site of our University
Curriculum Subcommittee, display information on ongoing activities, and provide
access to available resources. In particular:
❏ We are working to improve the accessibility and attraction of the university
curriculum portal. This site will soon
be linked to course materials with the
option to connect to the CIS Educational Repository http://cis.ieee.org/
cis-educational-repository.html.
❏ We are aiming at improving the
coordination of our activities with
other education sub/committees.
Potential areas are the educational
repository and tutorials as well as
standards, and webinars [3].
❏ We are sending regular updates to the
CIS newsletter, publish material in
blogs, and forums.We wish to propose
a special issue in relevant periodicals
(e.g., CIM) on university curriculum
issues as well as Panels and Special
Sessions at the CI flagship conferences, e.g., SCCI, IJCNN, Fuzz, CEC.
In conclusion, Computational
Intelligence in higher education and in

university curricula is a crucial area for
maintaining the dynamic development of
our field and to establish CI as one of the
basic disciplines of modern science and
engineering. A combined effort of our
experts, i.e., you, is needed for a breakthrough in this area. Our volunteers in the
University Curriculum Sub Committee
has devoted much time and effort to this
endeavor, but we cannot succeed without
the active support and participation of our
members. Please consider supporting our
initiatives. For updates on UCSC activities
please visit http://cis.ieee.org/universitycurricula.html.
References

[1] IEEE CIS university curriculum database. [Online].
Availbale: http://cis.ieee.org/university-curricula/178computational-intelligence-course-database.html
[2] L. Magdalena. (2010). Masters in soft computing
and intelligent data analysis. [Online]. Available: http://
www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/5/254-about
[3] C. Alippi, "IEEE CIS educational activities-vision
statement," IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag., vol. 13, no. 1,
p. 6, 2013.
[4] A. P. Engelbrecht, Computational Intelligence-An Introduction. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2007.
[5] B. Bollobas, R. Kozma, and M. Dezso, "Handbook
of large-scale complex networks," in Bolyai Mathematical
Studies. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009.
[6] P. Erdi, Complexity Explained. New York: SpringerVerlag, 2010.
[7] D. Fogel, J. Keller, and D. Liu, Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence. New York: Wiley, 2013.

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by the IEEE CIS Vietnam Chapter
which was established in 2011. We hope
you are as inspired and encouraged as
we are here at CIM, to look beyond the
various researches that are featured in
this issue. Please continue to keep us
posted of your progress. The success of

C. Publicity of University
Curriculum Activities

this publication depends greatly on your
active participation, submission of new
research findings, sharing of ideas and
valuable feedback. On behalf of the
Editorial Board, I encourage you to
contact me at eletankc@nus.edu.sg with
any comments and suggestions.

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I look forward to speaking to you
again in our year-end issue.

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