ACM Awards Judea Pearl the Turing Award
   ACM announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award will be awarded to Dr. Judea Pearl for his work on the partnership between humans and machines, part of what is generally known as artificial intelligence. In particular, Pearl is recognized for creating a framework for reasoning with imperfect data.

Cerebral fiber pathways formed a rectilinear 3D grid
   Van J. Wedeen and his colleagues at Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School discover Cerebral fiber pathways formed a rectilinear 3D grid. <Science>  issue of March 30, 2012.

IFIP IIP2012 deadline is extended to April 10
    IFIP IIP2012 the paper submission deadline is extended to April 10. Warmly welcome you submit paper. All accepted papers will be indexed by EI and Inspec.Here is call for  papers.

Cross-Media Data Mining and Understanding
     March 5 2012 Prof. Zhongzhi Shi deliver a  technical lecture on Cross-Media Data Mining and Understanding at the Maritime University.

Turing at 100
    This year marks the centenary of the birth of Alan Turing. He deserves your attention http://www.nature.com/news/specials/turing/index.html

New Course <Intelligence Science>
    Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences announced  a new course <Intelligence Science> in 2011-2012 Spring Semester.  This course aim is to cultivate talents for brain-like intelligent machins and human-level AI. Here is course syllabus.

Brain-Like Intelligent Machines
    Brain-Mind Workshop hosted by Fudan University  in Dec. 19-20, 2011. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi delivered keynote speech on "Brain-Like Intelligent Machins".

Cognitive Computation
    Image and Visual Understanding and Cognitive Computation hosted by College of Computer Science and Information，Beijing Jiaotong University  in Dec. 17-18, 2011. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi delivered keynote speech on "Cognitive Computation and Applications in Image Understanding".

Chinese Society for Cognitive Science was formally established
     On November 30, 2011 Chinese Society for Cognitive Science  (CSCS) Inaugural  and First National Representatives conference   held at  China Science and Technology Hall, Beijing. Academician Chen Lin was elected chairman of the Chinese Society for  Cognitive Science..

Brain-like Intelligent  Machines
     Sponsored By Intelligent Science and Technology Online Cooperative Research Centre of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University hosted the second "Intelligent Science and Technology Conference" on November 29, 2011 held in Hangzhou. Zhongzhi  Shi was invited to deliver the  report on brain-like intelligent machines .

The Human Brain Project
     Henry Markram,  coming  from Brain Mind Institute, EPFL in Switzerland, is going to organize the human brain project  for applying Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship Programme

John McCarthy
     John McCarthy, a computer science pioneer, father of AI and Lisp, died October 24, 2011 at his home in Stanford, Califonia.

Cognitive Cycle in Mind Model CAM
     The paper "Cognitive Cycle in Mind Model CAM" is apeared on International Journal of Intelligence Science , No. 2, 2011. Here is the paper.

Research on New Machine Brain
     From Oct. 21 to 23, 2011 the Jiangsu Province Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Xuzhou. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi delivered an invited report titled "Research on New Machine Brain" . Here  is ppt.

Establish AAAI Beijing Chapter
     On Oct. 20, 2011 AAAI president-elect Prof. Veloso announce establish AAAI Beijing Chapter. She presents the title  board to professor Feiyue Wang.

Welcome submit paper to IFIP IIP2012
  The 7th IFIP  International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing IIP2012 will be held in Guilin, China  from 12 to 15 October 2012. CfP of IIP2012.

    Brain Inspired Software MoNETA under Development at Boston University will be motivated by the same drives that motivate cockroaches, cats, and humans, The paper is published in IEEE<Spectrum>, No. 12, 2010. Here is  Chinese   translation.

Climb the Peak and Has no Limits Bravely,  The Way of Intelligence Science is Endless
     Celebrate the 90th anniversary of the establishment of Communist Party of China warmly, Science and Technology Daily Press Office publishes the book titled light of science and technology, Liu Wei, reporter of Science and Technology Daily Office, writes the article " Climbs the peak and has no limits bravely, the way of intelligence science is endless ---Introduce Prof. Zhongzhi Shi "  .  Here is the paper.

Keynote speaker at AGI2011
     Aug. 3-7, 2011 AGI2011 held  in Mountain View, CA, USA. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi presented keynote speech titled "AGI Research Progress in Intelligence Science Lab  at Chinese Academy of Sciences". Here is ppt 。

Paper presented at the Workshop of AAAI2011
     Aug. 7-11, 2011AAAI2011 held in San Franciusco。The paper "An Intelligent Load Balancing Algorithm Towards Efficient Cloud Computing" writtten by Prof. Yang Xu and Zhongzhi Shi and their colleagues has been presented at the Workshop  titled Artificial Intelligence for Data Center Management and Cloud Computing.

Welcome to submit paper to IJIS
     Welcome to submit paper to “International Journal of Intelligence Science”online. The homepage is http://www.scirp.org/journal/ijis/.

Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Edition 3) has been published
     Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Edition 3) has been published by Science Press of China. Nonsupervised Learning, Internet Intelligence have added to the new version.

Intelligence Science
  Book Intelligence Science written by Prof. Zhongzhi Shi has been published by The World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press. The book is volume 2 of series on Intelligence Science which consists of 15 Chapters. Intelligence science is an interdisciplinary subject which is jointly studied by brain science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence and othersThe contents of the book is novel, reflects the research updates in this field.

International Journal of Intelligence Science
     Science Research Publishing will publish International Journal of Intelligence Science which promotes the interdisciplinary subject of intelligence science by brain science, cognitive science, artificial intelligence and others. The homepage is http://www.scirp.org/journal/ijis/. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi is invited as Editor-in-Chief. Welcome you to submit papers or organize special issues.

Cross-Media Data Mining and Understanding
     May 6-8 2011 4th China Conference on Data Mining (CCDM 2011) held at Zhongshan University located in Guangzhou. Prof. Zhongzhi Shi deliver an invited speech titled Cross-Media Data Mining and Understanding. Here is the contents ppt.

Dec. 19-20, 2011 Prof. Zhongzhi Shi attended Brain-Mind Workshop hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai.

Prof. Xiaowen Xu working at University of Arkausas, USA visited Intelligence Science Lab and discuss the future cooperation.

On Nov. 14 2011  Prof. Zhongzhi Shi visited Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and meet Prof. Von-Wun Su.

Prof. Zhongzhi Shi attended IEEE GrC 2011held in Gaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 7-10, 2011.

Prof. Toru Ishida who is working at the Kyoto University visited Prof. Zhongzhi Shi and shared dinner on Oct.24, 2011in Beijing.

Prof. Pei Wang who is working at Temple University, USA, visited Intelligence Science Lab. on Septmber 24.  

From July 16-20 2011 AGI Series Conference President Ben Goertzel visits Beijing and meet Zhongzhi Shi. They discuss about International Journal of Intelligence Science.

IJCAI-11held in Barcelona from July 16 -22. Qing He and Xudong Ma attend conference and present paper.

22 to 27 January, 2011 Zhongzhi Shi, visited    University of Illinois at Chicago, and discussed with Prof. Bing Liu, Prof. Philip Yu.

January 11, 2011 Zhongzhi Shi visited the  Stanford  University in United States, and met Prof. Li .

January 6, 2011 Zhongzhi Shi visited the  San Jose State University in United States and discussed with Prof. Lin

PhD student  Xiaofeng Wang got the 2010 Award of Excellence Scholarship of the director of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In 19 October 2010 Zhongzhi Shi visited Imperial College. Prof. Yike Guo shows Mycloud system developed by his research group. They discuss future cooperation on cloud-based massive data mining.

In 13 October 2010 Zhongzhi Shi visited University of Manchester, meet Prof Ke Chen and discuss research progress.

Professor Paul S.. Rosenbloom in University of Southern California, the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Series Conference Chairman Ben Goertzel  participated in ICAI2010 conference and deliver keynote address in August 2010 19-24.

Professor Gerhard Brewka who is working in  University of Leipzig, Germany, in August 24, 2010 visited  intelligence science laboratory to explore collaborative research.

Dr. Luo Ping's PhD thesis "Distributed Data Mining studies algorithms and information theory"  Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award 2009 by China Computer Federation.

April 30, 2009 Professor Peter Høj, Vice-Chancellor of  University of South Australia led a delegation to visit  Intelligence Science Lab, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences . Members of the delegation, including Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Parfitt, Dean, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Professor Andy Koronios, natural and built environment Professor Patrick James Dean.