The Genesis of the IEEE CIS: Examining the Fossil Record (1987-1992)

Robert J. Marks II

June 21-24, 1987: First IEEE ICNN, San Diego

Founders– Robert Hecht-Nielsen– Bart Kosko– San Diego Section of the IEEE

What happened?– Founding of the IEEE Neural Networks

Committee– Founding of INNS

June 21-24, 1987: First IEEE ICNN, San Diego

First IEEE Neural Network Committee Chair: Troy Nagle

July 24-27, 1988, Second ICNN, San Diego.

Troy Nagle, IEEE Neural Networks Committee Chair, appointed a committee to

found the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Robert Marks is Committee Chair.

Troy Nagle then resigns. Robert Marks, as the Committee Secretary, becomes the Chair.

1989 Bullets

The NNC and the INNS agreement for combining the ICNN and INNS Annual Meeting into the IJCNN.

The IEEE Publications Committee approves the NNC proposal for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks.

IJCNN, Washington DC. The IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) approves

formation of the IEEE Neural Networks Council.

1990

The NNC Fellows Committee is appointed. Ed Posner (Cal Tech) is the first Chair.

The NNC Standards Committee is appointed. Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou (Rutgers) is the first Chair.

NNC Pioneer Award and TNN Best Paper Award approved. Brad Dickinson (Princeton) is the first NNC Awards Committee

1990

Election of the first officers of the Neural Networks Council

– R. J. Marks II, President– Russ Eberhart, VP– Evangelia Tzanakou,

Secretary– P.K. Simpson, Treasurer

1990

March: First issue of The IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Herb Rauch at Lockheed is the first Editor-in-Chief. Thirty five full papers were submitted for the first issue. Ten were published.

1991

Michael W. Roth (Johns Hopkins) becomes the second Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TNN

1991 The Hype Continues

1991

Announcement of first IEEE book sponsored by the NNC: Neural Networks : Theoretical Foundations and Analysis, by Clifford Lau (ONR)

Discussion of the first WCCI - working title was World Congress on Intelligent Systems (WCIS)

1991 Fuzzy Thoughts!

Budget presented for first Fuzz-IEEE by Budget presented for first Fuzz-IEEE by James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), ChairJames C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), ChairCommittee proposed to form IEEE TFS. Committee proposed to form IEEE TFS.

James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), ChairJames C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), Chair

From whence...Computational Intelligence??

First proposed in an email by James C. First proposed in an email by James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida).Bezdek (U. West Florida).

1992 Elections

R. Eberhart, (Johns Hopkins), President

P.K. Simpson (ORINCON), Vice President

Roy Nutter (West Virginia University), Treasurer

Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University), Treasurer

1992

First IEEE TNN Best Paper Award announced: K.S. Narenda and K. Parthasarathy, ``Identification and Control of Dynamical Systems Using Neural Networks.''

First NNC Neural Network Pioneer Awards announced. Recipients are Stephen Grossberg, Teuvo Kohonen and Bernard Widrow.

1992

Robert J. Marks II becomes the third Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Neural Networks Council.

1992

First steps in forming the IEEE

Transactions on Evolutionary

Computation were tasked to Patrick K.

Simpson.

David Fogel

1992

1992: Six video tutorials on Fuzzy

Logic (Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Video

Tutorials Chair) becomes the best

selling video course in the history of the IEEE Educational Activities Board.

1992 Milestone

1992: The first Fuzz-IEEE, Chaired by Jim Bezdek, was the very first IEEE Conference to have its Proceeding distributed on CD-ROM

(Project Chair: Russ Eberhart).

Much more evolution occurred since 1987-92... to IEEE CIS...

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