IEEE Lone Star Section Joint Chapter Hosted Deep Continual Learning: Past, Present, and Future
On February 8th, the IEEE Lone Star Section Joint Chapter of SMC/AES/SYSC hosted a talk by Truman Hickok on "Deep Continual Learning: Past, Present, and Future" at Southwest Research Institute. Truman is a graduate student at UTSA. He is broadly interested in techniques for building deep learning-based systems that allow general, robust, and multimodal world modeling, but has thus far focused on the subfield of continual learning research concerned with the design of episodic memory algorithms.
Chapter Report
Chapter CH05200 is jointly sponsored by the Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC28), the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AES10), and the Systems Council (SYSC45). It is part of the Lone Star Section of IEEE Region 5, located in San Antonio and 20 surrounding counties in South Texas. There are five IEEE student branches in the Lone Star Section and Chapter CH05200 conducted several activities in collaboration with or in support of these local student branches. These include several drone deo and competitions for college and STEM students. These activities began with a drone competition at the 2021 Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) in San Antonio, Texas. A group photo of the STEM event is shown below.
On Halloween 2022, the Chapter collaborated with the St. Mary’s University IEEE Student Branch STB04001 to hold a drone competition for high school STEM students featuring scary themes and costumes. Fun photos from that event illustrate its popularity in the enthusiasm of the student participants.
In 2023, the Chapter teamed with the student branches at the University of Texas at San Antonio STB29971 and the University of the Incarnate Word STB98812 to conduct a drone demonstration at the San Antonio Boeing Center at Tech Port during the Fiesta® De Los Niños. This was an all-day free event featuring interactive technological activities and entertainment for K-12 students and their families. Several thousand people attended the event.
In conjunction with the 2023 RADAR Conference that was held in San Antonio, the Chapter took advantage of the fact that two IEEE Distinguished Lecturers were coming to the conference and invited them to present talks while they were in town. One talk was by Dr. Vijay Mishra on “Inverse Cognition and Counter-Adversarial Learning in Radar” and the second talk was by Dr. Karen Haigh on “Cognitive EW Assuring Mission Success.” The Chapter also arranged for Dr. Haigh to teach a short course on Cognitive Electronic Warfare.