From schunn at pitt.edu  Sat May  8 15:52:51 2004
From: schunn at pitt.edu (Chris Schunn)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 15:52:51 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: ICDL-2004 announcement
Message-ID: <4A00DD82-A129-11D8-9398-000A959D2146@pitt.edu>


Begin forwarded message:

> Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 09:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Andrea Chiba <chiba at Cogsci.ucsd.edu>
> To: icdlorganizers at mplab.ucsd.edu
> Subject: ICDL '04 Call For Papers Extended Deadline
>
> ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS
> DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004
> There will be absolutely no further extensions.
>
> THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING
> SOCIAL BRAINS
>
> The Salk Institute
> October 20-22, 2004
> San Diego, California
> A Satellite Conference preceding
> The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference
> http://www.icdl.cc
>
> The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in
> neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental 
> psychology, in
> order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural
> organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be
> considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many
> other skills exhibited by humans, and animals. The theme of the 
> conference
> this year will be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics related 
> to
> development and learning are welcome.
>
> PAPER SUBMISSION
> The extended submission deadline is May 21, 2004. Papers for the 
> meeting
> can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at:
> http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word 
> summary
> or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages).
> IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions.
>
> SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING
> Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended 
> version
> of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Neurocomputing
> Journal, on Development, Learning, and the Social Brain, published by
> Elsevier Science B.V.
> (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)
>
> INVITED TALKS (Not yet confirmed)
> John Allman
> Dana Ballard
> Rodney Brooks
> Eric Courchesne
> Peter Dayan
> Jeff Elman
> William Greenough
> James L. McClelland
> Pietro Perona
> Terrence Sejnowski
> Joan Stiles
> John Watson
>
> REVIEW PROCESS
> All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers
> will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with
> which the work is described and the relevance to the goals of the
> conference. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as
> papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in
> one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the
> presentation format of their papers by the beginning of August.
>
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
> General Chair: Javier R. Movellan:
> Co-Chairs: Andrea Chiba, Gedeon Deak, Jochen Triesch.
> Program Chair: Jochen Triesch and Tony Jebara.
> Program Co-Chairs: Marian Stewart-Bartlett, Gwen Ford Littlewort.
> Publications Chair: Gedeon Deak.
>
> ADVISORY BOARD:
> Jeff Elman
> Pat Langley
> James L. McClelland
> Sandy Pentland
> Terrence Sejnowski
> Mriganka Sur
> Esther Thelen
> Juyang Weng
>
> PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
> Minoru Asada
> Dana Ballard
> Luis Baumela
> Simon Baron-Cohen
> Mark Baxter
> Jeff Cohn
> Kerstin Dautenhahn
> Kenji Doya
> Martha Farah
> Teresa Farroni
> Masahiro Fujita
> Ann Graybiel
> William Greenough
> Michael Hasselmo
> Shoji Itakura
> Hiroshi Ishiguro
> Robert Jacobs
> David Kleinfeld
> Mark Konishi
> Denis Mareshal
> Risto Miikulainen
> Douglas Nitz
> Roz Picard
> Steven Quartz
> Rajesh Rao
> Matthew Schlesinger
> Gregor Schoener
> Geoffrey Schoenbaum
> Linda Smith
> Olaf Sporns
> Luc Steels
> Valerie Stone
> Manuela Veloso
> Paul Verschure
> Christoph von der Malsburg
> Hiroyuki Yano
>
> CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
> Register online at http://www.icdl.cc
> Student Registration is: $150
> Non-student Registration is: $290
>
======================================================
     Christian Schunn
     Assistant Professor of Psychology, Intelligent Systems, and 
Education
     Research Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
     University of Pittsburgh

     http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/schunn
======================================================




From ilya at dit.unitn.it  Tue May 11 12:18:45 2004
From: ilya at dit.unitn.it (Ilya Zaihrayeu)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:18:45 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
Message-ID: <200405111622.i4BGMwlS002729@dit.unitn.it>

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]

**** CALL FOR PAPERS *****

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
-- www.p2pkm.org --
August 22 (tentative), 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Collocated with MobiQuitous 2004 (www.mobiquitous.org)


Scope of workshop
-----------------

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has received significant attention from the
side of research labs and academia, largely due to the popularity of
commercialized P2P file sharing applications such as Napster, Morpheus and
KaZaa. In the P2P model, peers exchange data and/or services in completely
decentralized distributed manner. Peers are autonomous, and are free to
choose what other peers to interact with, and, in this point-to-point
interaction, peers possess equal functional capabilities.

On the other hand, Knowledge Management (KM) is increasingly viewed as a
core capacity in order to compete in the modern social and economic
environment. Researchers and practitioners agree that those intellectual
assets that are embedded in working practices, social relationships, and
technological artefacts constitute the only source of value that can sustain
long term differentiation, quality of services, innovation, and
adaptability. Nonetheless, even due to a debatable success of current KM
implementations, still unclear is how such matter should be managed in
highly complex, distributed, and heterogeneous settings.

In the last couple of years, P2P and KM have followed different but
converging paths. In fact, P2P technologies have left their initial
"computational", "anarchoyd", and spontaneous fashion to embrace more
service level domains and business settings. On the other hand, KM is
questioning its centralized assumption based on the implicit belief that
knowledge is managed successfully when it can be standardized and
controlled. In this sense, it seems that while P2P is looking for value
added domains to better exploit its technological potential, KM is looking
for a technological paradigm more able to fit an emerging distributed
organization of knowledge.

The convergence of P2P and KM creates new challenges for researchers to
address: new methodologies to model, design, and deploy distributed KM
solutions; theories and algorithms to represent the social and semantic
dimensions of a knowledge network; mechanisms to cope with the dynamic
autonomous nature of P2P and to provide means to support emergent network
self-organization. New technologies should be provided in order to support
full operational functioning of P2P KM systems, ensuring high extensibility
of the solutions along several dimensions, such as scalability in the number
of peers, size and kind of supported knowledge bases, level of heterogeneity
in knowledge representation, robustness, etc. Various technologies can
contribute to P2P KM solutions: Semantic Web, with new instruments for
knowledge representation, in particular ontologies, as well as with
(totally) mechanized means for locating, retrieving and processing of data;
database technology, with formal seman!
 tics for P2P data sharing; multi agent technology, with innovation
solutions of agent-mediated knowledge management; and so on.

The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers
and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and
discuss research results, novel ideas and experiences, laying in the
intersection of the P2P, KM and Semantic Web, database, multi agent, as well
as other related technologies. It aims at provoking a discussion around the
hypothesis of convergence of P2P and KM areas, and, in particular, at
exploring synergies among those that need to provide a distributed
technological answer to the distributed management of knowledge, and those
that are interested in exploring the substantial implications of the P2P
paradigm on important aspects of organizational life such as KM. 

Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:
-----------------------------------------------------

    * Distributed Knowledge Management business cases and experiences;
    * P2P to support (virtual) communities of practice and interest
networks;
    * Organizational impacts of P2P technologies, and social adoption of
distributed technologies;
    * Methodologies to analyse, design and deploy distributed KM solutions;
    * Social models to design and support knowledge intensive collaborative
processes in a P2P environment;
    * Data models and distributed query languages;
    * Meta-data representation and management (e.g., semantic-based
coordination mechanisms, use of ontologies in P2P KM systems, etc.);
    * Algorithms to discover distributed knowledge among interacting peers;
    * Protocols, algorithms and techniques to support semantic
interoperability;
    * Trust and reputation as means to support knowledge acquisition;
    * Semantic Web and P2P KM systems;
    * Agent-mediated knowledge management;
    * P2P KM system architectures, infrastructure and middleware;
    * Experience with deployed systems, performance evaluation and
benchmarking;

Important dates
---------------

Submission deadline: June 30th, 2004
Acceptance notification: July 16th, 2004 

Camera ready due: August 2nd, 2004
Workshop date: August 22nd (tentative), 2004


Submission instructions
-----------------------

We invite the submission of high quality technical papers. The submitted
papers should be formatted as close as possible to the Springer LNCS style
and must not exceed  12 pages including figures and references. Interested
authors should send their papers to Ilya Zaihrayeu (ilya at dit.unitn.it)
within the submission deadline. PDF format is  preferred, but other formats
(PS, DOC) are also acceptable. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR
workshop electronic proceedings, and hardcopies of the  proceedings will be
handed out at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must
attend the workshop to present their work.


Workshop Co-Chairs
------------------

   Ilya Zaihrayeu
   University of Trento, Italy
   email: ilya at dit.unitn.it

   Matteo Bonifacio
   ITC-Irst, Italy
   email: bonifacio at itc.it  


Program Committee
-----------------

    * Matteo Bonifacio, ITC-Irst, Italy
    * Stefan Decker, Information Sciences Institute at the University of
Southern California
    * Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    * Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
    * Chiara Ghidini, ITC-Irst, Italy
    * Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
    * Manfred Hauswirth, EPFL, Switzerland
    * Matthias Klusch, DFKI, Germany
    * Manolis Koubarakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
    * Gabriel Kuper, University of Trento, Italy
    * Stefanie Lindstaedt, Austria's Competence Center for Knowledge
Management
    * Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University, USA
    * Alberto Montresor, University of Bologna, Italy
    * Wolfgang Nejdl, University of Hannover and Learning lab Lower Saxony,
Germany
    * Munindar P. Singh, North Carolina State University, USA
    * Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
    * Riccardo Rosati, Universit? di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
    * Wee Sion NG, National University of Singapore
    * Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    * Igor Tatarinov, University of Washington, USA
    * Bernard Traversat, SUN Microsystems, USA


Futher Information
------------------

For further information, please send an e-mail to: ilya at dit.unitn.it or
visit: 

http://www.p2pkm.org/




From steven.quinn10 at bigpond.com  Wed May 12 04:53:33 2004
From: steven.quinn10 at bigpond.com (Steven Quinn)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:53:33 +1000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
Message-ID: <001f01c437fe$9cda7580$f24d8a90@signup>

Hi all,

just wanted to ask the following question :

Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?

So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?

And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?

Steven Quinn
Student
University of Queensland
AUSTRALIA

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From ritter at ist.psu.edu  Thu May 13 13:28:20 2004
From: ritter at ist.psu.edu (Frank Ritter)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:28:20 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
In-Reply-To: <001f01c437fe$9cda7580$f24d8a90@signup>
References: <001f01c437fe$9cda7580$f24d8a90@signup>
Message-ID: <p05200f0dbcc9607c142a@[130.203.152.74]>

I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work, 
but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how 
people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would 
carry over to other languages almost certainly.

cheers,

Frank

At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>just wanted to ask the following question :
>
>Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent 
>programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how 
>closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another 
>programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
>
>So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent 
>programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and 
>methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
>
>And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
>
>Steven Quinn
>Student
>University of Queensland
>AUSTRALIA
>
>




From CHIPMAS at ONR.NAVY.MIL  Thu May 13 14:09:24 2004
From: CHIPMAS at ONR.NAVY.MIL (Chipman, Susan)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:09:24 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
Message-ID: <535C721ABF9A0747B099AC5408B5982C012EBF1D@onrex3.onr.navy.mil>

I was waiting for someone else to answer this question.  The fact is
that Anderson's group built a tutor under Army support that taught
several different programming languages.  In fact, it was supposed to
work so that one could develop a programming problem in only one of the
languages and have it tutored in any of the others.  Don't know if that
actually worked.  I think the languages were LISP, Prologue and Pascal.
There is also a Pascal Tutor derived from that one that is intended for
use in teaching the high school advanced placement (college equivalent)
programming course.  This may be available from CarnegieLearning
although they have not been actively marketing it.  CarnegieLearning is
marketing several math tutors, most of them originally built by
Anderson's group.  Check their web site.  The Algebra I tutor is quite
widely used.

Susan Chipman, Ph.D.
ONR Code 342
800 N. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22217-5660
phone:  703-696-4318
fax:  703-696-1212


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Ritter [mailto:ritter at ist.psu.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:28 PM
To: Steven Quinn; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....

I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work, 
but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how 
people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would 
carry over to other languages almost certainly.

cheers,

Frank

At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>just wanted to ask the following question :
>
>Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent 
>programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how 
>closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another 
>programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
>
>So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent 
>programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and 
>methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
>
>And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
>
>Steven Quinn
>Student
>University of Queensland
>AUSTRALIA
>
>


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From rehling at andrew.cmu.edu  Thu May 13 14:27:25 2004
From: rehling at andrew.cmu.edu (John Rehling)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:27:25 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
In-Reply-To: <535C721ABF9A0747B099AC5408B5982C012EBF1D@onrex3.onr.navy.m
 il>
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20040513142303.0281b330@cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu>

         The advanced placement exam subject language has since moved on 
from Pascal to Java (having been C++ for a while). Certainly if a tutor was 
constructed for any of these languages, it *could* be done for the others. 
LISP and Prolog are both quite different from Pascal, Java, and C++ and 
from each other. However, none of those differences would change the answer 
to the original question as to whether or not it is *possible* (and it 
obviously is). Adapting an existing tutor from Pascal to Java would be 
easier than adapting a LISP tutor to Java.

At 02:09 PM 5/13/2004 -0400, Chipman, Susan wrote:
>I was waiting for someone else to answer this question.  The fact is
>that Anderson's group built a tutor under Army support that taught
>several different programming languages.  In fact, it was supposed to
>work so that one could develop a programming problem in only one of the
>languages and have it tutored in any of the others.  Don't know if that
>actually worked.  I think the languages were LISP, Prologue and Pascal.
>There is also a Pascal Tutor derived from that one that is intended for
>use in teaching the high school advanced placement (college equivalent)
>programming course.  This may be available from CarnegieLearning
>although they have not been actively marketing it.  CarnegieLearning is
>marketing several math tutors, most of them originally built by
>Anderson's group.  Check their web site.  The Algebra I tutor is quite
>widely used.
>
>Susan Chipman, Ph.D.
>ONR Code 342
>800 N. Quincy Street
>Arlington, VA 22217-5660
>phone:  703-696-4318
>fax:  703-696-1212
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Frank Ritter [mailto:ritter at ist.psu.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:28 PM
>To: Steven Quinn; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
>
>I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work,
>but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how
>people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would
>carry over to other languages almost certainly.
>
>cheers,
>
>Frank
>
>At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >just wanted to ask the following question :
> >
> >Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent
> >programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how
> >closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another
> >programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
> >
> >So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent
> >programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and
> >methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
> >
> >And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
> >
> >Steven Quinn
> >Student
> >University of Queensland
> >AUSTRALIA
> >
> >
>
>
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From Bej at cs.cmu.edu  Thu May 13 15:28:51 2004
From: Bej at cs.cmu.edu (Bonnie John)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 15:28:51 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20040513142303.0281b330@cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20040513142303.0281b330@cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <p06010209bcc97cc8eb12@[128.2.77.66]>


And Wayne Gray did a Cobol tutor called Grace.
If you can tutor Cobol, anything's possible.
Bonnie



At 2:27 PM -0400 5/13/04, John Rehling wrote:
>         The advanced placement exam subject language has since moved 
>on from Pascal to Java (having been C++ for a while). Certainly if a 
>tutor was constructed for any of these languages, it *could* be done 
>for the others. LISP and Prolog are both quite different from 
>Pascal, Java, and C++ and from each other. However, none of those 
>differences would change the answer to the original question as to 
>whether or not it is *possible* (and it obviously is). Adapting an 
>existing tutor from Pascal to Java would be easier than adapting a 
>LISP tutor to Java.
>
>At 02:09 PM 5/13/2004 -0400, Chipman, Susan wrote:
>>I was waiting for someone else to answer this question.  The fact is
>>that Anderson's group built a tutor under Army support that taught
>>several different programming languages.  In fact, it was supposed to
>>work so that one could develop a programming problem in only one of the
>>languages and have it tutored in any of the others.  Don't know if that
>>actually worked.  I think the languages were LISP, Prologue and Pascal.
>>There is also a Pascal Tutor derived from that one that is intended for
>>use in teaching the high school advanced placement (college equivalent)
>>programming course.  This may be available from CarnegieLearning
>>although they have not been actively marketing it.  CarnegieLearning is
>>marketing several math tutors, most of them originally built by
>>Anderson's group.  Check their web site.  The Algebra I tutor is quite
>>widely used.
>>
>>Susan Chipman, Ph.D.
>>ONR Code 342
>>800 N. Quincy Street
>>Arlington, VA 22217-5660
>>phone:  703-696-4318
>>fax:  703-696-1212
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Frank Ritter [mailto:ritter at ist.psu.edu]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:28 PM
>>To: Steven Quinn; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
>>
>>I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work,
>>but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how
>>people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would
>>carry over to other languages almost certainly.
>>
>>cheers,
>>
>>Frank
>>
>>At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>just wanted to ask the following question :
>>>
>>>Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent
>>>programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how
>>>closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another
>>>programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
>>>
>>>So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent
>>>programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and
>>>methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
>>>
>>>And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
>>>
>>>Steven Quinn
>>>Student
>>>University of Queensland
>>>AUSTRALIA
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>ACT-R-users mailing list
>>ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
>>http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users
>>
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>
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From sritter at carnegielearning.com  Wed May 19 21:20:14 2004
From: sritter at carnegielearning.com (Steve Ritter)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:20:14 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
In-Reply-To: <535C721ABF9A0747B099AC5408B5982C012EBF1D@onrex3.onr.navy.mil>
References: <535C721ABF9A0747B099AC5408B5982C012EBF1D@onrex3.onr.navy.mil>
Message-ID: <D8E67893-A9FB-11D8-90B2-000A9575C008@carnegielearning.com>

Although we (Carnegie Learning) are marketing the math tutors, we don't 
have license to the programming tutors.

At one point, there was a C++ tutor, though I don't know how much 
curriculum it covered. There was some talk about producing a Java tutor 
as well, though I don't know if any work started on that.

Steve


------------------------
Steve Ritter, Ph.D.
VP, Senior Cognitive Scientist
Carnegie Learning
1200 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

sritter at carnegielearning.com
(412) 690-2442 x122


On May 13, 2004, at 2:09 PM, Chipman, Susan wrote:

> I was waiting for someone else to answer this question.  The fact is
> that Anderson's group built a tutor under Army support that taught
> several different programming languages.  In fact, it was supposed to
> work so that one could develop a programming problem in only one of the
> languages and have it tutored in any of the others.  Don't know if that
> actually worked.  I think the languages were LISP, Prologue and Pascal.
> There is also a Pascal Tutor derived from that one that is intended for
> use in teaching the high school advanced placement (college equivalent)
> programming course.  This may be available from CarnegieLearning
> although they have not been actively marketing it.  CarnegieLearning is
> marketing several math tutors, most of them originally built by
> Anderson's group.  Check their web site.  The Algebra I tutor is quite
> widely used.
>
> Susan Chipman, Ph.D.
> ONR Code 342
> 800 N. Quincy Street
> Arlington, VA 22217-5660
> phone:  703-696-4318
> fax:  703-696-1212
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Ritter [mailto:ritter at ist.psu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 1:28 PM
> To: Steven Quinn; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: [ACT-R-users] intelligent programming tutors.....
>
> I think the standard answer would be:  yes.  it would take some work,
> but the ideas behind the lisp tutor are based on a theory of how
> people think about programming, and that the basic concepts would
> carry over to other languages almost certainly.
>
> cheers,
>
> Frank
>
> At 18:53 +1000 12/5/04, Steven Quinn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just wanted to ask the following question :
>>
>> Professor John Anderson has done some work to do with intelligent
>> programming tutors which teach LISP. I just wanted to ask how
>> closely related teaching LISP in this way is to teaching another
>> programming language like Java or C++ or maybe even XML ?
>>
>> So basically asking if one is able to create an intelligent
>> programming tutor for LISP, can one use similar ways and ideas and
>> methods to teach Java or C++ or XML ?
>>
>> And just wondering if anyone has had any experience with that ?
>>
>> Steven Quinn
>> Student
>> University of Queensland
>> AUSTRALIA
>>
>>
>
>
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From grayw at rpi.edu  Thu May 20 09:40:58 2004
From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:40:58 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] new pub
Message-ID: <p06110405bcd2656adc59@[10.0.1.2]>

I am pleased to announce of new publication that may be of interest 
to some members of this community.

Gray, W. D., & Fu, W.-T. (2004). Soft constraints in interactive 
behavior: The case of ignoring perfect knowledge in-the-world for 
imperfect knowledge in-the-head. Cognitive Science, 28(3), 359-382.

It is available from my website (as per the signature block) as well 
as from the CSS and Elsevier. It may also be found by its doi:

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.12.001

Wayne
-- 
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Carnegie Building (rm 108) ;;for all surface mail & deliveries
110 8th St.; Troy, NY 12180

EMAIL: grayw at rpi.edu, Office: 518-276-3315, Fax: 518-276-3017

for general information see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/

for On-Line publications see: 
http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/downloadable_pubs.htm

If if you just have formalisms or a model you are doing "operations 
research" or" AI", if you just have data and a good study you are 
doing "experimental psychology", and if you just have ideas you are 
doing "philosophy" -- it takes all three to do cognitive science.

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From byrne at rice.edu  Sun May 23 01:30:42 2004
From: byrne at rice.edu (Mike Byrne)
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 00:30:42 -0500
Subject: [Removed on request of list owner]
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From sritter at carnegielearning.com  Tue May 25 12:00:22 2004
From: sritter at carnegielearning.com (Steve Ritter)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:00:22 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Carnegie Learning looking for Cognitive Scientists
Message-ID: <A10CC018-AE64-11D8-8AF2-000A9575C008@carnegielearning.com>

Carnegie Learning is looking for a Cognitive Scientist to join our team 
in developing the most effective, most widely used ITSs.

Job Summary: The Cognitive Scientist is responsible for designing and 
guiding the creation of educationally effective and engaging 
educational software. This includes translating curricular needs into 
product requirements, researching existing approaches, rapid 
prototyping and formative evaluation of both effectiveness and 
usability. The Cognitive Scientist works with the software and 
curriculum development teams to implement and refine software tools 
that engage students, support teachers and promote learning with 
understanding.

Requirements :    Candidates should have an advanced degree in 
cognitive or educational psychology, cognitive science, human-computer 
interaction or a related field, and have 5 years experience in 
instructional design, preferably in educational software. Candidates 
must have a strong background in user-centered design. Candidates with 
experience in cognitive modeling, Java programming, statistics and 
experimental design are preferred. Teaching and mathematics experience 
are desirable.

This job is in our Pittsburgh office. Carnegie Learning pays 
competitive salaries and has excellent benefits.

Please forward resumes or questions to sritter at carnegielearning.com


------------------------
Steve Ritter, Ph.D.
VP, Senior Cognitive Scientist
Carnegie Learning
1200 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222

sritter at carnegielearning.com
(412) 690-2442 x122




From ja+ at cmu.edu  Tue May 25 13:37:30 2004
From: ja+ at cmu.edu (John Anderson)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:37:30 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] PSYCH. RESEARCHER / SYS. ADMIN.
Message-ID: <p0521060dbcd933e4748f@[128.2.188.28]>

Seeking researcher / computer programmer for the Anderson lab in the 
CMU psychology department.

Research duties include fMRI experimentation and analysis applying 
principles from ACT-R, a computational cognitive architecture 
developed by the Anderson lab.  Systems administration duties include 
creation/modification/installation of fMRI analysis tools, minor 
database administration, and primary responsibility over hardware and 
software used within the lab for fMRI analysis.  Requirements: linux 
administration skills,  solid programming/scripting ability, and 
demonstrable background or interest in psychology or fMRI analysis.

Please contact John Anderson (ja at cmu.edu)
-- 

==========================================================

John R. Anderson
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: 412-268-2788
Fax:     412-268-2844
email: ja at cmu.edu
URL:  http://act.psy.cmu.edu/



From Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil  Thu May 27 14:13:13 2004
From: Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Kevin.Gluck at mesa.afmc.af.mil)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 11:13:13 -0700
Subject: [ACT-R-users] FW: Post-Doc Position at Brooks, San Antonio
Message-ID: <245656B34A151046B0997D34FA909F0F03102F06@fsqbge06.mesa.afmc.af.mil>



		-----Original Message-----
		From: Larkin Willard D Civ AFRL/AFOSR
[mailto:willard.larkin at afosr.af.mil]
<mailto:[mailto:willard.larkin at afosr.af.mil]>  
		Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:41 AM
		To: D. Edgar (E-mail); Charles A. Czeisler (E-mail);
Elizabeth Klerman MD PhD (E-mail); David F. Dinges (E-mail); Hans P. A. Van
Dongen (E-mail); Melissa M. Mallis (E-mail); David F. Neri (E-mail); Gluck
Kevin A Civ AFRL/HEA; Wayne Gray at RPI (E-mail)
		Subject: Post-Doc Position at Brooks, San Antonio

		ALL:

		The fatigue countermeasures group at the Air Force Research
Lab, San Antonio, TX, has a post-doc position. There is an excellent sleep
lab facility. John & Lynn Caldwell are there, as is the research section of
the School of Aerospace Medicine. You can respond directly to the Branch
Chief, Brandon Doan. Here is his message:

		We have some funding to hire a post doc through the ORISE
program and I was wondering if either of you could help us find some
suitable applicants. We're looking for someone with experience and interest
in fatigue and/or individual/team cognitive assessment or modeling.
		Sincerely, 
		Brandon 
		Brandon K. Doan, Major, USAF, Ph.D.
		Chief, Fatigue Countermeasures Branch
		Human Effectiveness Directorate
		Air Force Research Laboratory
		(210)536-8129(voice)/2761(fax) (DSN: 240-8129)
		Web: <http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/WFC
<http://www.brooks.af.mil/AFRL/WFC> >

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From venice at vreme.yubc.net  Fri May 28 01:47:21 2004
From: venice at vreme.yubc.net (IPSI-2004)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:47:21 +0200
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Invitation to IPSI-2004 Montenegro and IPSI-2004 Stockholm, vip/code
Message-ID: <200405280547.i4S5lLb26676@vreme.yubc.net>

Dear Potential Speaker:

This is an invitation for you to attend two IPSI BgD multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conferences, one in Venice, and one in Prague, as follows:

IPSI-2004 VENICE
Venice, Italy (arrival: 10.11.2004. departure: 14.11.2004.)
Deadlines: 15 June 2004 (abstract) + 1 August 2004 (full paper).

IPSI-2004 PRAGUE
Prague, Czeck Republic (arrival: 11.12.2004. departure: 14.12.2004.).
Deadlines: 15 July 2004 (abstract) + 1 September 2004 (full papers)

If you like to obtain more information on both conferences, please reply to this email. All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit! They bring together the elite of the world science (so far, 7 times a Nobel Laureate was talking at the opening ceremony), and they take place in the leading hotels of the world.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet, Computer Science and Engineering, Management and Business Administration, Education, e-Medicine, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Environment Protection, and e-Economy.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. V. Milutinovic, Chairman


PS - If you plan to submit an abstract/paper, let us know immediately. If you are not able to attend now, but you like to be informed about the future IPSI BgD conferences, please let us know. If you do not like to receive future invitations, let us know, as well!



From basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU  Fri May 28 08:28:47 2004
From: basagni at ECE.NEU.EDU (Stefano Basagni)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:28:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACM Dial M-POMC 2004, Call for Papers
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405280825250.13566@gateway.ece.neu.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

  please, find below the Call for Papers for DIAL M-POMC 2004, the Joint
Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing to be held in conjunction
with ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2004.

  The paper submission deadline is June 24 2004.

  We *TRULY* apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Call for
Papers.


***********************************************************************
              PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS

                            DIAL M-POMC 2004
              http://www.ece.neu.edu/conf/dialm-pomc-04/

        The Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing
              Co-located with ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2004

                October 1, 2004  Philadelphia, PA, USA

* SCOPE

Mobile computing and communications devices will have an enormous
impact on our lifestyle over the next several decades. The mobility of
distributed computing components raises a number of interesting, and
difficult, algorithmic issues. This workshop is devoted to discrete
algorithms and methods in the context of mobile and wireless computing
and communications. The workshop is intended to foster cooperation
among researchers in mobile computing and researchers in discrete and
distributed algorithms.

* TOPICS

Contributions are solicited in all areas related to mobile and
wireless computing and communications where discrete algorithms and
methods are utilized. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

              * distributed algorithms
              * discrete algorithms
              * frequency allocation
              * localization and location tracking
              * ad hoc and sensor networking
              * wireless networks
              * cryptography and security
              * error correcting codes
              * handover (handoff)
              * modeling
              * optimization
              * satellite communication
              * scheduling
              * site allocation
              * synchronization
              * telecommunications
              * routing, multicast and broadcast
              * dynamic networks
              * dynamic graph algorithms
              * mechanism design
              * cooperation enforcement
              * energy conservation
              * complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments

* HISTORY

This workshop is a merging of two workshops: DIAL M (Discrete
Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications), which
was held annually from 1997 to 2002 as a workshop in conjunction with
ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom; and POMC (Principles of Mobile Computing),
which was held in 2001 in conjunction with the ACM/SIGACT and SIGOPS
Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), and in 2002
in conjunction with the ACM International Symposium on Distributed
Computing (DISC).  Last year DIAL M and POMC were held jointly in San
Diego, CA, in conjunction with ACM/SIGMOBILE MobiCom 2003.

* PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions will be handled electronically. Papers must not exceed
10 pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures
and references. The font size must be at least 10 points.  Accepted
papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.  Submitted
papers should be orginal, unpublished work and not currently under
review for any other conference or workshop.
(Concurrent submissions to journals will be considered on a case-by-case
basis; inquiries should be sent to the program co-chairs.)
To submit a paper, please refer to the instruction for the electronic
submission of papers. The link to our electronic submission instructions
is the following:
http://www.sigact.acm.org/~dialmpomc04/DIALMPOMC2004.html

** IMPORTANT DATES

   * Paper submissions due:        JUNE 24, 2004
   * Notification of acceptance:   JULY 23, 2004
   * Camera-ready version due:     AUGUST 4, 2004


** PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

              Stefano Basagni
              Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., 312 DANA
              Northeastern University
              360 Huntington Ave.
              Boston, MA 02115 U.S.A.
              Tel. +1 617 373 3061
              Fax +1 617 373 8970
              E-Mail: basagni at ece.neu.edu

              Cynthia A. Phillips
              Algorithms and Discrete Math Department
              Sandia National Laboratories
              Mail Stop 1110
              P.O. Box 5800
              Albuquerque, NM 87185-1110
              Tel. +1 505 845-7296
              Fax +1 505 845-7442
              E-mail: caphill at sandia.gov


** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Amiya Bhattacharya
  New Mexico State U., USA
Gruia Calinescu
  Illinois Institute of Tech., USA
Andras Farago
  U. of Texas Dallas, USA
Pierre Fraigniaud
  CNRS-LRI, France
Goran Konjevod
  Arizona State U., USA
Madhav Marathe
  Los Alamos National Lab., USA
Chiara Petrioli
  U. di Roma, "La Sapienza," Italy
Rajmohan Rajaraman
  Northeastern U., USA
Andrea Richa
  Arizona State U., USA
Emilia Rosti
  U. di Milano, Italy
Mema Roussopoulos
  Harvard University
Jared Saia
  U. of New Mexico, USA
Christian Scheideler
  Johns Hopkins U., USA
Martha Steenstrup
  Stow Research, USA
Violet R. Syrotiuk
  Arizona State U., USA
Jennifer L. Welch
  Texas A&M U., USA


--
Stefano Basagni, Ph.D.      Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering   312 Dana Research Center
Northeastern University            360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115
Tel. 617 373 3061, Fax 617 373 8970         E-mail: basagni at ece.neu.edu
***               http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/basagni/           ***



From pward at lsi.fsu.edu  Mon May 31 10:10:16 2004
From: pward at lsi.fsu.edu (Paul Ward)
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 10:10:16 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Submission deadline for HICSS38 (Hawaii): June 15
Message-ID: <AHEIJLFMOAJEBGOHHEEGKEFNCAAA.pward@lsi.fsu.edu>

Please could you send the message below to all subscribers to the ACT-R
users lists
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Paul Ward.

Dear all,
Please find below information for the Hawaii International Conference on
System Sciences (HICSS38) to be  held in January, 2005. The deadline for
paper submission is quickly approaching: June 15. Our minitrack focuses on
the interface between humans and intelligent
technologies. Please contact me if you need further details.
Regards,
Paul Ward
pward at lsi.fsu.edu

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
HICSS 38  (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/) will be held Jan 3-6, 2005 on the
Big Island of Hawaii.  We encourage you to consider a submission to the
Software Technology Minitrack:

Integrating Humans with Intelligent Technologies: Merging Theories of
Collaborative Intelligence and Expert Cognition

This minitrack is a combination of collaborative intelligence and expert
cognition, focusing on the interface between humans and intelligent
technologies.

We solicit topics in:
-        user interfaces developed from knowledge of human behavior and
human interaction with agents, robots, and sensors
-        metrics for evaluation of collaborative intelligence systems
-        theories of expertise
-        skill acquisition
-        mechanisms and models of expert cognition
-        adaptive and routine expert performance
-        expert-novice differences in complex real world tasks
-        mixed- initiative interaction
-        mixed human-computer initiative with adjustable autonomy
-        architectures to support symbiotic interaction
-        case studies of user interfaces/interactions with intelligent
systems
-        affective user interfaces
-        teams of users and intelligent systems
-        development of models of computers for users and development of
models of users for computers
-        issues of trust and privacy in symbiotic interfaces
-        social implications of physiological measures of humans
-        determining and monitoring cognitive status of users
-        multi-modal interfaces for input and output
-        domains such as intelligence analysis or tutoring systems where
intelligent systems may be employed
-        issues that may arise with intelligent systems and modeling
expertise

Dates:
June 15, 2004              Electronic submission of papers completed
August 15, 2004            Submission notifications out

Minitrack Co-Chairs:
Jean Scholtz
Martha  Crosby
Paul Ward

Contact Details:
Jean Scholtz (Primary Contact)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, MS 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899
301-975-2520
Fax: 301-975-5287
jean.scholtz at nist.gov

Martha Crosby
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Hawaii
1680 East West Center Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-3493
crosby at uhics.ics.hawaii.edu

Paul Ward
Learning Systems Institute
Florida State University
2000 Levy Ave
Suite 320, Bldg.A
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2735
pward at lsi.fsu.edu