Dear Friends, After my petition candidacy for IEEE President was announced, I have received many supports and feedback on ways to move IEEE forward from around the world. Thank you very much! I promise to Enhance Transparency and Member Value at IEEE. As President, I will strive for an open organization addressing two persistent IEEE challenges: dramatically increase IEEE membership through enhanced member value; and address the many multi-million dollar deficit of IEEE’s ope

Congratulations to the #EMNLP 2017 best paper award winners! Best short paper: Satwik Kottur, José Moura, Stefan Lee and Dhruv Batra. Natural Language Does Not Emerge ‘Naturally’ in Multi-Agent Dialog https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.08502 More information can be found in EMNLP 2017.