1995 ACT-R Workshop

[Christian Lebiere]

The second ACT-R workshop will be held in July 1995 at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, before the Seventeenth Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society.

The workshop will run from noon Thursday July 20th to noon Saturday July
22nd.  The schedule is as follows:

Thursday
    Afternoon: joint session with the CAPS workshop on comparative
        architectures.
Friday
    Morning: Research presentations by researchers using ACT-R to model 
        applications such as cognitive arithmetic, memory span, game-playing, 
        problem-solving and air-traffic and submarine control.
    Lunch: provided
    Afternoon: Presentation of new ACT-R developments, including the modeling
        interface and a proposal for a new version of ACT-R incorporating
        partial matching, simplified production rules, and more.
        Discussion to follow.
    Evening: party at the home of Dr. Anderson
Saturday
    Morning: Panel discussion on the topic of ACT-R education.

Housing will be available in the CMU dormitories for the duration of the
workshop.  Approximate prices are for Resnick Hall (newer dorm) $38 per
night for a single room, and for Morewood Towers (older dorm) $24 per
night for a single room and $18 for a double room.  The CMU Housing
Office can be contacted at +1 (412) 268-2139.  A block of rooms at the
prefered rate of $89 per night has also been set aside for the duration
of the workshop at the nearby Holiday Inn University Center (+1 (412)
682-6200).

Please specify when registering whether you would like to give a
research presentation or participate in the panel discussion.  The early
registration deadline is May 20th.  The early fee, due upon registration,
is $25 for students, $50 for postdocs and $75 for others, and the late fee
is an additional $25.  Make checks payable to Carnegie Mellon University.
You can register by email at act-r-users-request+ at andrew.cmu.edu or
by mail at:

ACT-R workshop c/o Christian Lebiere
Psychology Department
Carnegie-Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

This announcement and much more about ACT-R can be found at:
<URL:http://sands.psy.cmu.edu/>