JCIS 2003 is the seventh gathering in an ongoing series of jointly held conferences dedicated to developing emerging science and technology related to intelligent machinery and systems. For the last decade, the Joint Conference on Information Sciences has been serving scientists, engineers, technology managers and others committed to multi-disciplinary research. The 7th JCIS, scheduled to be held September 26-30, 2003 at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Cary, North Carolina, USA, will feature high profile keynote speakers in fuzzy theory and technology; natural computing; computational biology; photonics; and computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing, among others. About 400 technical papers are expected to be presented over the five-day conference.
JCIS is governed by the board of directors of the Association for Intelligent Machinery (AIM), an organization composed of distinguished researchers dedicated to achieving excellence in scientific research and technological development. AIM believes that promoting brain and cognitive research will help lead to commercialization of intelligent engineering systems. The association is committed to bringing together isolated research communities, recognizing that researchers who work together synergistically can accomplish superior commercial products. JCIS places a major emphasis on topics not usually covered by IEEE, ACM, or other major professional societies. It was organized to complement the efforts of these organizations, not to duplicate their excellent programs and well-recognized contributions.
JCIS 2003 will include ten individual conferences and workshops focusing on the following areas: Computational Biology and Genome Informatics; Fuzzy Theory and Technology; Computer Science and Informatics; Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing; Frontiers in Evolutionary Algorithms; Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing; Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking; Adaptive Systems for Speech and Language Technologies; Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance;and Photonics, Networking and Computing.
Also at the conference, AIM will present its Information Science Award, which recognizes the achievements of leading researchers for their enduring contributions to scientific knowledge. The 2003 award will be presented to Emmett Leith, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan and Walter Freeman, Professor of the Graduate School of Neurobiology at UC Berkeley. Previous award recipients include John H. Holland, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Azriel Rosenfeld, Stephen Grossberg, Karl Pribram, Thomas Huang, and James Anderson.
For more information on the conference, contact JCIS Manager, Anna Menzies at menzies_ap@compuserve.com. To submit a paper, authors should contact the individual conference/workshop chairs directly. (See Conferences).