The NDSU Department of Computer Science recently hosted two international conferences. The 5th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing and the 5th International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks were held at NDSU Aug. 12-14.
A total of 41 participants from 15 countries attended the events.
The World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing was previously held in India, Japan, Spain and Mexico. It was organized to provide a forum for researchers, engineers and students throughout the world to discuss the state-of-the-art in machine intelligence and address various issues on building up human-friendly machines by learning from nature. The conference theme was “Nurturing Intelligent Computing Towards Advancement of Machine Intelligence.” For more information, visit www.mirlabs.org/nabic13/welcome.php.
The International Conference on Computational Aspects of Social Networks brought together an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, computer users and students to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of social networks.
For more information, visit www.mirlabs.org/cason13/welcome.php.
The conferences were sponsored by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, NDSU and Microsoft.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
