Cognitive Informatics in Year 10 and Beyond: summary of the plenary panel

The contemporary wonder of sciences and engineering has recently refocused on the starting point of them: How the brain processes internal and external information autonomously and cognitively rather than imperatively as those of conventional computers do? This leads to the advances in the field of Cognitive Informatics (CI) as a transdisciplinary enquiry of computer science, information sciences, cognitive science, and intelligence science. CI investigates into the internal information processing mechanisms and processes of the brain and natural intelligence, as well as their engineering applications in cognitive computing. This paper reports a set of nine position statements presented in the plenary panel of IEEE ICCI*CC'11 on Cognitive Informatics in Year 10 and Beyond contributed from invited panelists who are part of the world's renowned researchers and scholars in the field of cognitive informatics and cognitive computing.