From cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Nov 6 11:45:04 1995 From: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 11:45:04 -0500 (EST) Subject: 1996 ACT-R Workshop and Summer School Message-ID: The dates for the 1996 ACT-R Workshop and Summer School have been tentatively set as Monday June 17 to Sunday June 30. The schedule would look something like this: Monday June 17 to Monday June 24: Summer School. Introduction to the theory and practice of ACT-R. Admission will be restricted to a small number of researchers, and stipends will be available. Tuesday June 25 to Friday June 28: Tutorial. Introduction to new and advanced features of ACT-R. Open to both summer school and workshop participants. Saturday June 29 to Sunday June 30: Workshop. Presentations on research and new developments in ACT-R. If you have a problem with these dates, please let me know asap if you haven't already done so. This is a preliminary call for comments. The actual announcement with registration information will be sent some time in December. Thank you, Christian Lebiere From cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Nov 8 15:05:31 1995 From: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:05:31 -0500 (EST) Subject: ACT-R for Windows Message-ID: The latest version of ACT-R (2.1) has been ported by Serene Taleb-Agha to Allegro Common Lisp 2.0 on Windows machines. It can be found at: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/act-r/ftp/release/Windows/acl-actr Included below is the readme file provided by Serene. Christian Lebiere =============================================== ACT-R 2.1 for Allegro Common Lisp 2.0 for Windows Downloading =========== You can download ACT-R in either uncompressed or compressed form. The compressed version of ACT-R is called acl-actr.zip and is located in this directory. You will need to unpack it with PKUNZIP. PKUNZIP can be found on just about any FTP site. To uncompress, you need to type the following: c:> pkunzip -d acl-actr.zip The "-d" is important to preserving the directory structure. To download the files in uncompressed form, cd to the subdirectory called "acl-actr" located in this directory and download the files in the "code" and "examples" subdirectories. Make sure you preserve the subdirectory structure of the files you download. (i.e. subdirectory called CODE containing *.lsp files, a subdirectory called EXAMPLES containing *.act files..) Installing: ========== Before you can run ACT-R, you need to make a few modifications to the files you downloaded. Start up Allegro Common Lisp for Windows. Open the file "actload.lsp" This file is the loader. You will need to change the value of the variable *ACT-R-PATH* to reflect the actual path to the ACT-R code on your machine (the actual path of the CODE subdirectory in the ACT-R distribution) Note that you need to separate path elements by two backslashes "\\" instead of one. Save this file. Running ACT-R: ============= To run ACT-R, make sure that you are in Allegro Common Lisp. Load the file "actload.lsp" ACT-R should load without errors and display the ACT-R banner when finished. To try out some sample ACT-R files, try loading a file from the EXAMPLES subdirectory. You can change ACT-R's default parameters by using the commands beneath the ACT-R menu. OTHER STUFF ============= If you have any problems with this version of ACT-R, please contact me (Serene Taleb-Agha) at: serene+ at cmu.edu If you have general questions about ACT-R, contact Christian Lebiere at: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu There is also a mailing list for discussion of ACT-R. It's address is: act-r-users+ at andrew.cmu.edu Contact Christian Lebiere (address above) to be put on the mailing list.