IEEE Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence [Society Briefs]

The IEEE Latin-American Summer School on Computational Intelligence (called EVIC for its acronym in Spanish) has been held annually since 2004 in Santiago, Chile. The Summer School aims at bringing together students and researchers worldwide, interested in Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Evolutionary Computation and other Computational Intelligence techniques, applied to signal processing, image processing, pattern recognition, control systems, robotics, data mining, biomedical engineering, power systems, etc. It is coorganized by the Chilean CIS chapter and the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Chile. The fifth version of the Summer School, EVIC 2008, will be held December 15-17, 2008 (see http://www.evic.cl).