Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

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Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
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*First Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing awarded to
Professor Marco Dorigo*


In London, on July 23^rd 2007, at the Imperial College, the Jury of
the
CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing, congregated to
evaluate
the different candidatures presented to the First edition of the
Prize,
and after analyzing all the proposals and accompanying documentation,
decided:


/To distinguish Professor Marco Dorigo as the winner of the First
Edition of the Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing, in
consideration of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of
Soft Computing, by developing the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO)
methodology. /


The Awards Ceremony will be held at the "Palacio Revillagigedo" in
Gijon
Asturias, on Tuesday 27 November 2007 on 19:30.


The merits of Profesor Marco Dorigo will be presented by Professor
Lotfi
Zadeh president of the Jury.


After receiving the Prize, Professor Dorigo will give a talk on Swarm
Intelligence.


Prof. Dorigo is Director of Research at the Institut de Recherches
Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle
(IRIDIA), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)


The /CajAstur International Prize for Soft Computing /is organized in
a
yearly basis and meant to distinguish a person or group of persons for
the realization of a relevant scientific or industrial application,
meaning an original contribution in the area of Soft Computing. The
Prize consists of EURO 20,000.00 and an Award Certificate. The Jury of
the
Prize is the Scientific Committee of the Foundation for the
Advancement
of Soft Computing.


In order to attend please confirm as soon as possible to
e...@softcomputing.es and print
http://www.softcomputing.es/upload/web/parrafos/00569/docs/icprize.jpg


Cooccurring with the Awards Ceremony, during last week of November at
the European Centre for Soft Computing, Professor Lotfi Zadeh will
give
the talk 'A New Frontier in Computation - Computation with Information
Described in Natural Language' on Wednesday 28 November 11:00 hours,
and
Professor Marco Dorigo will give the talk 'Swarm Intelligence' on
Friday
30 November 11:00 hours.
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EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING*
Edificio Científico Tecnológico
C/ Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, s/n - 3ª planta
33600 Mieres - Asturias - España
Tel. +34 985.45.65.45 - Fax +34 985.45.66.99
*e...@softcomputing.es*
*www.softcomputing.es *