<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal">ACT-R Workshop 2006<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">The ACT-R workshop will take place from Friday July 21 to Sunday July 23. Contrary to earlier workshops we anticipate a full Sunday program. Mornings will be devoted to research presentations, each lasting about 20 minutes plus questions. Participants are invited to present their ACT-R research by submitting a one-page abstract with their registration. Afternoons will feature more research presentations as well as discussion sessions and instructional tutorials.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Suggestions for the topics of the tutorials and discussion sessions are welcome.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Saturday afternoon will feature a tutorial by the invited speaker, David Noelle of Vanderbilt University, about the Leabra neural network architecture.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Admission to the workshop is open to all.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The early registration fee (before July 1) is $100 and the late registration fee (after July 1) is $125.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Informal proceedings of past workshops can be found on the ACT-R web site (<A href="http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/workshops/</FONT></SPAN></A>). Requests for presentations should be submitted before July 1 to receive full consideration for inclusion in the workshop program.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A preliminary program of presentations will be made available in early July.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The workshop is scheduled to just precede the Cognitive Science conference which takes place in Vancouver from July 27 to 30. (<A href="http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci.html</FONT></SPAN></A>). Housing and computing facilities will be provided at CMU from July 23 to 26 for workshop participants who wish to stay on to work on their ACT-R projects and collaborate with other researchers until the start of Cogsci.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Further details on how to register will follow.<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">===================================================</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Niels Taatgen - Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also (but not now): University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">web: <A href="http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels">http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels</A> <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>email: <A href="mailto:taatgen@cmu.edu">taatgen@cmu.edu</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Telephone: +1 412-268-2815</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">===================================================</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>