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<div><font face="New York" color="#000000">Again I hope you all have
had a profitable year modeling. <br>
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It would seem that my major personal event of the year would be the
winning of the Rumelhart Award, which made me very happy and which I
see as really an award for ACT-R and the community. However,
personally I seem more dominated by the transitions in my life.
I had one son, Abe, go off to college (although CMU) and the other
son, Jay, come home from college and start working for me. For
one reason or another, we have lost our regular contact with a lot a
people over the last 12 months - Helen Borek, Raluca Budiu, Cam
Carter, Monchu Chen, Jon Fincham, Adam Goode, Glenn Gunzlemann, Craig
Haimson, and Eli Silk. In addition, Scott Douglass has switched
to graduate student status. We have had Mark Albert, Wai-Tat Fu,
and Niels Taatgen come join us. However, as one can calculate,
the net effect has been a reduction in contacts, but still I feel more
than occupied. Still here meeting with me on whatever basis they
were last year are Dan Bothell, Dana Byrne, Christian Lebiere, Yulin
Qin, Phil Pavlik, Myeong-Ho Sohn, and Hedderik van Rijn.<br>
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Our two major research fronts continue to be brain imaging and skill
acquisition, brought together both by their connection to ACT-R and
issues of instruction. Some of these threads are brought
together in our forthcoming Psych Review article (An Integrated Theory
of Mind - Anderson, Bothell, Byrne, Douglass, Lebiere, & Qin).
Unfortunately, the final draft of this has not been updated on the web
reflecting the fact that our web site is more than 12 months out of
date. This is one of the things I need to be attending to in the
New Year and will be bugging some of you about.<br>
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The big upcoming event is ICCM in Pittsburgh (July 30 - Aug 1;
organized by Marsha Lovett , Christian Schunn , Christian Lebiere,
and Paul Munro -- http://simon.lrdc.pitt.edu/~iccm/). It
is supplanting the ACT-R workshop for this year. So, although I
expect to be seeing you all this summer it will be in a somewhat
different context. There has been some discussion about whether
we should have something of an ACT-R special interest retreat, as we
did with the PGSS before ICCM in 2001. However, reflecting the
general state of things not yet pursued, we have done nothing about
that. Among the things to be discussed would be ACT-R 6.0.
Dan Bothell is soon to release a draft of the specifications to the
community for comment. I have read an earlier version and it
looks good to me.<br>
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Next summer in Pittsburgh,<br>
John Anderson<br>
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<div><font color="#000000">John R. Anderson<br>
Carnegie Mellon University<br>
Pittsburgh, PA 15213<br>
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Phone: 412-268-2788<br>
Fax: 412-268-2844<br>
email: ja@cmu.edu<br>
URL: http://act.psy.cmu.edu/</font></div>
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