1. The Genesis of the IEEE CIS: Examining the Fossil Record (1987-1992) Robert J. Marks II

2. June 21-24, 1987: First IEEE ICNN, San Diego Founders – Robert Hecht-Nielsen – Bart Kosko – San Diego Section of the IEEE What happened? – Founding of the IEEE Neural Networks Committee – Founding of INNS

3. June 21-24, 1987: First IEEE ICNN, San Diego First IEEE Neural Network Committee Chair: Troy Nagle

4. July 24-27, 1988, Second ICNN, San Diego. Troy Nagle, IEEE Neural Networks Committee Chair, appointed a committee to found the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Robert Marks is Committee Chair. Troy Nagle then resigns. Robert Marks, as the Committee Secretary, becomes the Chair.

5. 1989 Bullets The NNC and the INNS agreement for combining the ICNN and INNS Annual Meeting into the IJCNN. The IEEE Publications Committee approves the NNC proposal for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. IJCNN, Washington DC. The IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) approves formation of the IEEE Neural Networks Council.

6. 1990 The NNC Fellows Committee is appointed. Ed Posner (Cal Tech) is the first Chair. The NNC Standards Committee is appointed. Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou (Rutgers) is the first Chair. NNC Pioneer Award and TNN Best Paper Award approved. Brad Dickinson (Princeton) is the first NNC Awards Committee

7. 1990 Election of the first officers of the Neural Networks Council – R. J. Marks II, President – Russ Eberhart, VP – Evangelia Tzanakou, Secretary – P.K. Simpson, Treasurer

8. 1990 March: First issue of The IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Herb Rauch at Lockheed is the first Editor-in-Chief. Thirty five full papers were submitted for the first issue. Ten were published.

9. 1991 Michael W. Roth (Johns Hopkins) becomes the second Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TNN

10. 1991 The Hype Continues

11. 1991 Announcement of first IEEE book sponsored by the NNC: Neural Networks : Theoretical Foundations and Analysis, by Clifford Lau (ONR) Discussion of the first WCCI - working title was World Congress on Intelligent Systems (WCIS)

12. 1991 Fuzzy Thoughts! Budget presented for first Fuzz-IEEE by James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), Chair Committee proposed to form IEEE TFS. James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida), Chair

13. From whence... Computational Intelligence?? First proposed in an email by James C. Bezdek (U. West Florida).

14. 1992 Elections R. Eberhart, (Johns Hopkins), President P.K. Simpson (ORINCON), Vice President Roy Nutter (West Virginia University), Treasurer Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University), Treasurer

15. 1992 First IEEE TNN Best Paper Award announced: K.S. Narenda and K. Parthasarathy, ``Identification and Control of Dynamical Systems Using Neural Networks.'' First NNC Neural Network Pioneer Awards announced. Recipients are Stephen Grossberg, Teuvo Kohonen and Bernard Widrow.

16. 1992 Robert J. Marks II becomes the third Editor- in-Chief of the IEEE Neural Networks Council.

17. 1992 First steps in forming the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation were tasked to Patrick K. Simpson. David Fogel

18. 1992 1992: Six video tutorials on Fuzzy Logic (Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Video Tutorials Chair) becomes the best selling video course in the history of the IEEE Educational Activities Board.

19. 1992 Milestone 1992: The first Fuzz- IEEE, Chaired by Jim Bezdek, was the very first IEEE Conference to have its Proceeding distributed on CD- ROM (Project Chair: Russ Eberhart).

20. Much more evolution occurred since 1987-92... to IEEE CIS... FINIS