From cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Dec 8 15:07:35 1995 From: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 15:07:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Third Annual ACT-R Workshop and Summer School Message-ID: As promised, here is the announcement for next year's ACT-R gathering. I apologize for the length of this message but, as the event gets more complex each year, so does the announcement. Please feel free to send me any questions, remarks or suggestions that you might have. Looking forward to seeing y'all next year in Pittsburgh, Christian ============================================ Third Annual ACT-R Workshop and Summer School Carnegie Mellon University June 1996 URL:http://sands.psy.cmu.edu/ The Third Annual ACT-R Workshop and Summer School will take place from June 15th to June 30th 1996 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. It will consist of an 8-day summer school to train cognitive scientists in the use of ACT-R, a 4-day tutorial to introduce new ACT-R features to accomplished users, and a 2-day workshop to present new research and developments in ACT-R. The general plan is to have a small number of participants in the summer school, to have them joined by more for the tutorial, and then to have these joined by the larger community of ACT-R researchers for the workshop. The summer school will run from Monday June 17th to Monday June 24th. Its goal is to train researchers in the use of ACT-R for cognitive modeling. It will include theory lectures, homework assignments and research projects. Admission will be restricted to a small number of researchers who will be expected to stay on for the tutorial and workshop. Stipends are available. Novices will be required to attend a pre-summer school session on Saturday June 15th and Sunday June 16th to familiarize themselves with the basics of production system programming. A tutorial in the use of the new features of ACT-R 3.0 will be held between the summer school and workshop, from Tuesday June 25th to Friday June 28th. In addition to summer school participants, the tutorial is open to a limited number of workshop participants. Preference will be given to graduates of previous summer schools and to those who can bring their own portable computer. Topics include a new development environment, visual and action interface, and integrated experiment software. The workshop will take place on Saturday June 29th and Sunday June 30th. It will be devoted to presentations of new research and developments in ACT-R. In particular, the new ACT-R 3.0 system will be presented. In addition to a more efficient implementation, it features fully integrated development environment, visual and action interface, and software to run experiments. Workshop participants will receive a copy of the new system. Housing ======= Housing is available in the CMU dormitories. A single room in the Resnick/West Wing dorms (newer, air-conditioned) is $38 per night or $190 per week. A room in the Morewood dorms (older, no ac) is $19 per night or $95 per week. Housing reservations for the CMU dorms should be made with the registration. Please indicate your day of arrival and departure, and which dorm you would like to stay in. Room payment is due upon check-in. A block of rooms has been reserved for the conference at the Holiday Inn University Center on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, within easy walking distance of CMU. You should contact the Holiday Inn directly for reservations at +1 (412) 682-6200. The workshop rate is $94 per night, and a special government rate is available at $78 per night. Registration =========== The summer school application should include your statement of purpose and curriculum vitae. Stipends of up to $750 are available for expense reimbursement for summer school participants. Students and postdocs are eligible for the stipend, and US citizenship is required. If you are applying for the stipend, you should also include a letter of reference from a faculty member. The registration fee for the tutorial (June 25 to 28) is $25 for students, $50 for postdocs and $75 for others. Please specify in your application whether you are a summer school graduate and whether you can bring your portable computer. The application deadline for the summer school and tutorial is April 1st. Do not include the registration fee for the tutorial with your application. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by April 15th. The registration fee for the workshop (June 29 and 30) is $25 for students, $50 for postdocs and $75 for others. Workshop participants are encouraged to give short presentations on their ACT-R-related research. Completed, ongoing or planned projects and comparative studies are all acceptable. Please specify the topic of your presentation when registering. The registration deadline is June 1st. All registration fees are due by June 1st. Applications and registrations (including email address) should be mailed to: 1996 ACT-R Workshop and Summer School Psychology Department Attn: Helen Borek Baker Hall 345C Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 From cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu Sun Dec 24 11:31:08 1995 From: cl+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Christian Lebiere) Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 11:31:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Cactus Message-ID: The C ACT-R environment presented at the last ACT-R workshop is now available on the Web at: ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/act-r/ftp/release/CACTUS A short description is included below. I want to first add a couple of caveats: * This system is a subset of the current system, ACT-R 2.x. It does not include the analogy mechanism and some of the more luxuriant features. * The availability of a C-based ACT-R system does NOT mean that we are abandoning the Lisp-based system. Indeed, the next version of the system, ACT-R 3.0, is implemented in Lisp. It is quite efficient (compared to the current system, it loads a model about two orders of magnitude faster and runs one to two orders of magnitude faster) and will also feature a point-and-click interface. It will be released at next summer's workshop but may be available in beta test soon. Happy holidays, Christian ==================================================================== CACTUS 1.0 CACTUS is a stand-alone Macintosh modeling environment for ACT-R models. The binhexed self-extracting archive CACTUS.sea.hqx contains a directory which includes, in addition to this README file, the following files: % CACTUS : application for 680x0-based Macintoshes % CACTUS PPC : application for PowerPC Macintoshes % CACTUS Manual : application manual Please report bugs to dario+ at cs.cmu.edu.