The Society focuses on the design, application, and development of biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms emphasizing neural networks, connectionist systems, genetic algorithms, evolutionary programming, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained.

The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society has 1 chapter and members in 47 countries worldwide. Their 6 conferences include the annual International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

Society membership includes:

- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
   (electronic)
- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (electronic)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
   (electronic)
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (print & electronic)