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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The program for this year’s AAAI spring symposia can
be found at:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss06.php">http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss06.php</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Of particular relevance, Bob Wray and I will co-chair a
symposium titled “Between a rock and a hard place: Cognitive Science
principles meet AI-hard problems.” The primary goal of the
symposium is to explore the relative contributions that AI and Cognitive
Science can make to each other. Additional information including a complete
schedule is (or will shortly be) available at:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/aaai-sss/">http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/aaai-sss/</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The symposia take place at </span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Stanford</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>University</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> on </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>March 27-29,2006</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. The
deadline for registration (and most housing group rates) is this Friday
February 24.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Christian</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Christian Lebiere</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Principal Research Scientist</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Micro Analysis and Design</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="mailto:clebiere@maad.com">clebiere@maad.com</a></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>412-362-5334</span></font></p>
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