The IEEE CIS ETTC is an organization of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee of the Computational Intelligence Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. The purpose of the ETTC is to track, identify, promote, and nurture new and emergent approaches, concepts, and areas that relate or are within the scope of the CIS. In addition, the ETTC is open to all members of the CIS, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are three grades of the members, including active members, non-active members, and affiliates. The active members regularly participate in ETTC activities and meetings and shall be eligible to vote on matters before the committee. For those who have an interest in the Committee activities but are unable to actively participate, they are non-active members. The affiliates are the members who have an interest in ETTC activities and meeting, but will not be eligible to vote on matters before the committee.
　　This year, the chair of the ETTC is Professor Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan. The vice chair for Americas is Professor Piero P. Bonissione, General Electric, USA. Another vice chair for Europe areas is Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK. The members of ETTC come from various countries across the globe. In addition, currently, the ETTC has eight task forces, including the “Automatic and Trusted Computing,” “Intelligent Agent,” “Machine Learning,” “Memetic Computing,” “Molecular Computing,” “Organic Computing,” “Quantum Computing,” and “Social Computing,” to promote the related research topics on computational intelligence. The activities of the ETTC include but not limited to the following: propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers, participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, collaborate on production of tutorials and book series with the Multimedia Committee, facilitate local Chapters activities, and organize specialized workshops or meetings.
　　On August 23, 2009, the IEEE CIS ETTC Lunch Meeting and Computer Go Lunch Meeting was held at the FUZZ-IEEE 2009, to have the nice opportunity to meet together and enjoy the lunch. There are 4 members to attend this lunch meeting, including Professors Hani Hagras, Frank Chung-Hoon Rhee, Woei Wan Tainan, and me. This is because some of the members didn’t attend the FUZZ-IEEE 2009 so that they cannot join this lunch meeting. During this meeting, the chair, Professor Chang-Shing Lee, thanked to ETTC members for the good job done in the past year. In addition, he also discussed with the members over how ETTC has achieved goals in the last year and the new objectivities in the agenda of 2009.
　　Moreover, we will also strive to continually develop and prompt the ETTC in the future. Our planning activities include but not limited to the following: