2001 Post-Graduate Summer School

[Christian Lebiere]

As John mentioned at the 2000 ACT-R Workshop, next year we will not offer 
the traditional summer school and workshop, but instead we will organize a 
post-graduate summer school targeted at experienced users of ACT-R.  After 
seven years of organizing the summer school and workshop, it seemed like a 
good time to take a sabbatical and reflect on ACT-R.  We encourage ACT-R 
modelers who would have presented their research at the workshop to instead 
submit it to ICCM-2001, the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive 
Modeling that will take place at George Mason University from July 26 to 
July 28, 2001.  See http://hfac.gmu.edu/iccm/ for details.
 
The format of the post-graduate summer school will probably consist of
half-days devoted to specific topics, starting with a tutorial-like lecture 
lasting one to one-and-a-half hour, followed by free-flowing discussion and 
exchanges.  Topics can include specific areas (e.g. language), mechanisms 
(e.g. production rule learning), techniques (e.g. eye tracking) and general 
aspects of cognitive modeling (e.g. education). We really want to find out 
what topics you would be interested in seeing discussed.  Please send us 
any topics that occur to you or other suggestions by replying to this 
message or email cl+ at cmu.edu.
 
Tentative plans are to hold the post-graduate summer school immediately 
before ICCM-2001, from Saturday July 21 to Wednesday July 25, in Berkeley 
Springs, a quaint West Virginia town located about 3 hours from Pittsburgh 
and two hours from Washington, DC.  Locations being considered include the 
Country Inn (www.countryinnwv.com), a large Georgian-style Inn in the 
middle of town, and Coolfont (www.coolfont.com), a resort located in the 
mountains about 5 miles outside of town.  Again comments are welcome.
 
Thank you for your input,
Christian Lebiere
John Anderson