[ACT-R-users] Summer Workshop

[John Anderson]

Let me add some information to the ACT-R workshop announcement

First, I am pleased to say that our invited speaker will be John 
Laird and the title of his presentation will be

"The future of cognitive architecture: up, down, and sideways"

This is particularly apt as we will be facing an issue at the 
workshop which we need to decide about as a group and perhaps I can 
start your thinking about this now:

The issue is that ICCM will be in the summer for both 2009 
(Manchester) and 2010 (Drexel) and we have traditionally not had 
ACT-R workshops when there is a summer ICCM.  This is because the 
overlap in presentations at the two is too great.   Moreover, one 
might expect that this will prove to be the transition to yearly 
summer ICCM's permanently bringing to question the ACT-R workshop. 
There are at least 5 responses to this:

1.  Just have the Summer Workshops independent of ICCM.
2. Drop the workshops with no replacements but this means that there 
will be no good opportunities for community discussion.
3. Have a 1-day special interest meeting before ICCM like we did last 
year (but probably not a tutorial) but this is a rather rushed 
opportunity for discussion.
4.  Have a retreat focused on discussion like the 2001 Post Graduate 
School but this is very demanding of people's time right before ICCM.
5.  Move to another time like a Winter workshop (perhaps on the beach 
or ski slope) but there are lots of problems of venue, timing, and 
cost.

Rather than unilaterally deciding the matter this will be a point of 
discussion at this summer's workshop.  Maybe some of you have other 
ideas or relevant information.
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John R. Anderson
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Phone: 412-268-2788
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email: ja at cmu.edu
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