professionalactivitities

Professional Activities

Kaggle competition, Zillow Prize, rank #148 for an eventual prize of 1.2 million USD.

Program Committees

• 1. International Conference on Intelligent Information System and Technology (ICIIST 2014), Qingdao, China, June 26–28, 2014.

  2. The 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology, Beijing, China, December 1–4, 2009.

  3. The 2nd International Symposium on u- and e- Service, Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, October 12–14, 2009.

  4. The 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Qingdao, China,  June 4–6, 2009.

  5. The 4th International Symposium on Ubiquitous Applications & Security Services, CCNC-UASS Workshop, Las Vegas, USA, January 11–13, 2009.

  6. The 1st international Conference on U- and E- Service, Science and Technology, UNESST, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13–15, 2008.

  7. The 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Oslo, Norway, June 23–25, 2008.

  8. The 3rd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Application & Security Service, Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, March 25–28, 2008.

  9. The 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Hanwha Resort Haeundae, Busan, Korea, April 24–26, 2008.

  10. The 10th International Conference on Humans and Computers, Duesseldorf, Germany, December  13–15, 2007.

  11. The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Application & Security Service, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 26–30, 2007.

  12. IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 21–23,  2007. 

  13. The 9th International Conference on Humans and Computers, Duesseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Duesseldorf, Germany, September 6–9, 2006. 

  14. International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, March 15–17, 1995.

  15. The 5th UNB Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, August 12–14, 1993.

Editorial Boards

• • International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2000–present.

  • International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science, and Technology, 2008–present.

Journal Referee

• 1. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, special issue, Intelligent Systems and Services for Ubiquitous Computing

  2. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

  3. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

  4. International Journal of Applied Systems Studies

  5. Pattern Recognition

  6. BioMed Central

Conference Referee

• 1. International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 2006.

  2. 24th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2002.

  3. Shape Modeling International, 1997.

  4. Third International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 1995.

  5. International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, 1995.

  6. International Conference on Parallel and Vector Processing, CONPAR 1994.

  7. Fourth International Workshop on Frontiers of Handwriting Recognition, 1994.

Research Proposal Referee

• 1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), 1995.

  2. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1994.

Publicity Articles

• 1. Fukushima’s daily newspaper, Fukushima Minpo, 14 November 2002 issue, contained an article about my working at the University of Aizu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

  2. Parsytec’s magazine, Parallel Link, January 1995 issue, contained an article on the Supercomputer Scientific Group of Aizu, headed by Prof. Stanislav Sedukhin, of which I was a member.

Other Activities

Sillysoft provides free download of a strategic game called Lux Alliance. In 2010, I wrote some of the AI bots that play in this multi-agent game.

26 November 2004, I gave a presentation on The Story of Triple Parity at the University of Akureyri as part of Iceland Express Seminars on Computer Science.

In 2003, I gave a talk on the paper “Naive Euclidean Approach to Classification of Satellite Images” in Okinawa, Japan. The talk was simultaneously translated into Japanese. This work involved remote sensing and image data processing.

Joined the Research Board of Advisors, American Biographical Institute, Inc. in 2002.

Chairman for the session Neural Networks I, the 8th International IEEE Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, at Westin Dragonara Resort in Malta, September 2001.

Founder of the unmoderated international mailing list, DyalogAPL, to provide a forum to discuss all aspects of Dyalog APL. Owner of this list from 1995 to 2003.