Ethics and the Social Impact of Computational Intelligence [President's Message

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At the time of writing this column, I have just finished a tour in Chile & Argentina with the Executive Committee (EXCOM) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). As part of our geographical outreach program we organized CIS workshops at La Serena University, in northern Chile; the University of Chile, in Santiago; and the University of Buenos Aires, in Argentina. In Chile we had the opportunity to visit the astronomy observatories located near La Serena. Dr. Chris Smith, an astronomer and the head of mission, AURA Observatory in Chile, was our knowledgeable host. The actual telescope sites are located in an area of more than 90,000 acres that includes two operational mountaintops, Cerro Tololo at 2,200 m, and Cerro Pachon at 2,750 m. Tololo is a very famous place, because the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe was made in these facilities. Pachon is the place where the new generation telescope named LSST is being built.