<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>=== Message from Zhengyou Zhang</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am pleased to inform you that IEEE TAB (Technical Activities Board) has formally approved the establishment of the “IEEE TAMD Outstanding Paper Award” in 2013. This is the first year the Award will be bestowed.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">For the current round of competition, <b>any paper published in</b> <b>2011 (Volume 3) is eligible for consideration</b>. The prize includes a $1,000 honorarium, to be split equally among co-authors, and certificates to the author and co-authors of the selected paper. Please note, no self-nomination is allowed. For those who are interested in submitting a nomination for the IEEE CIS Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development Outstanding Paper Award, the materials needed are the following:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Nomination Letter with the following information:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Nominator: name, affiliation and email address of nominator<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Nominated Paper: full citation of the paper, authors and their affiliations, postal addresses and email addresses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Basis for Nomination: detailed documentation to justify the overall quality of the paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span>o<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Proposed Citation: provide suggestion for the complete, correct and succinct citation. The Awards Committee reserves the right to make any necessary change on the citation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Up to five reference letters supporting the nomination.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Nominated paper in PDF format.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">The complete nomination packet must be printed <b>in a single pdf file </b>containing the above information in the given order. The name of the file <b>must</b> be<i>surname_of_nominee</i>_AMD.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">The complete nomination packet must be submitted by email to the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Awards Committee Chair, Prof. Jose Principe (<a href="mailto:principe@cnel.ufl.edu" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; ">principe@cnel.ufl.edu</a>). Only when the Awards Chair acknowledges the receipt of the nomination packet the submission procedure can be considered complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">The deadline is 30 April 2013 (strict deadline).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">I understand that this is unfair for the authors who published in the first two volumes, but unfortunately it takes time to establish such an award.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB">P.S.: You can access the published TAMD papers through IEEE Xplorer at </span><a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; ">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563672</a><span lang="EN-GB">, or through my own TAMD site<a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/ieee-tamd/index.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; ">http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/ieee-tamd/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify; "><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Magneto; ">Zhengyou Zhang</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "> <br></span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; ">Editor-in-Chief, IEEE TAMD<br>Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA <br></span><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: windowtext; ">http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/</span></a><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></body></html>