From d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu Mon Sep 6 10:51:10 2004 From: d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu (Danielle S. McNamara) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:51:10 -0500 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Position at Memphis Message-ID: <20040906144839.M72448@mail.psyc.memphis.edu> The Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in Cognitive Psychology. While the specific area of specialization within cognitive psychology is open, we are particularly interested in candidates whose research investigates memory and learning, with emphases on computational models of cognition and/or automated, cognitive-based tutoring systems. The Department has 34 full-time faculty and houses Ph.D. programs in clinical psychology, experimental psychology, and school psychology as well as a master?s program in general psychology. As a State of Tennessee Center of Excellence, the Department is able to provide competitive salaries and strong support for faculty research and professional development. Candidates are required to have a doctoral degree in psychology. Preference will be given to candidates who have a strong record of published research, who show strong potential for obtaining external research support, and who can teach courses in research design and statistics. Application review will begin December 1 and may continue until the positions are filled. Positions will begin in the fall of 2005. Send curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and reprints/preprints to the chair of the search committee, Danielle McNamara, at the following address: 202 Psychology Building, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152-3230. The University of Memphis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities. Danielle S. McNamara, Ph.D. 202 Psychology Building (shipping address: 3693 Norriswood) The University of Memphis Memphis, TN 38152-3230 Psych. Office Phone: 901-678-2326 (Psych. Bld., Rm. 434) IIS Office Phone: 901-678-3803 (FIT, Rm. 403C) Psychology Main Office: 901-678-2145; FAX: 901-678-2579 LAB: 901-678-2037 (FIT, 410) EMAIL: d.mcnamara at mail.psyc.memphis.edu, dsmcnamr at memphis.edu WEB site: http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/McNamara From BORIRL at inel.gov Tue Sep 7 12:02:14 2004 From: BORIRL at inel.gov (BORIRL at inel.gov) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:02:14 -0600 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Ronald L Boring/BORIRL/CC01/INEEL/US is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 08/31/2004 and will not return until 09/09/2004. Please direct any queries to Terri Flores, florta at inel.gov, (208) 526-1936. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: Job description.doc Type: application/msword Size: 35840 bytes Desc: Job description.doc URL: From mike.fotta at dnamerican.com Thu Sep 9 10:23:14 2004 From: mike.fotta at dnamerican.com (Mike Fotta) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:23:14 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R Related Position Message-ID: Sorry for a double posting for some, but I have received replies that my attachment was embedded in message as garbage for some (I believe if you signed up for 'digest' option). So I am putting job description in the body this time. I will be beginning an Office of Naval Research Phase 2 Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) this fall and am in need of a research associate (which comes under systems engineer job category in my company). A job description including capabilities needed, job duties and a brief description of the project is shown below. If you are interested please send me a resume; if you know of anyone please forward this email. Thanks, Mike Systems Engineer for Human Error Modeling for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS) Small Business Innovative Research project HEMETS The interaction of humans with computers in environments which are increasingly information rich and demand fast decision time yields errors when human capabilities and limitations are not designed into a system. These "human errors" can lead to serious and even deadly consequences, such as friendly-fire incidents during combat. If knowledge of the cause of human errors resulting from a particular design were available to the system designers before implementing a system, then the design could be modified or an alternative design chosen to reduce or remove these errors, or at least enable recovery from the errors. One method to provide such knowledge is the development of software which can both simulate human performance given a system design and predict the errors likely to occur from this design. In order to develop such a tool, D.N. American is undertaking the development of a computational Human Error Modeling tool for Error Tolerant Systems (HEMETS). This is an extension of previous work in which we successfully designed the Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) which provides the core component of HEMETS. HEMA built upon ACT-R and, utilizing an analysis of research in human errors, established a cognitive architecture for human error modeling - HEMA. HEMETS will utilize HEMA to assess a wide variety of designs. There are a number of challenges to develop a functional HEMETS. Some of these are: 1. Extending ACT-R to incorporate the error modeling aspects needed to implement HEMA. 2. Developing an easily-used, reusable method to interface HEMETS to system simulations. 3. Tracking the activities of HEMA to determine the cause(s) of error resulting from a system design. 4. Developing an automated output which communicates the likely operator errors resulting from a system design and offers recommendations to improving the design. This work is funded under an Office of Naval Research (ONR) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant. Candidate Capabilities 1. Experience with LISP programming: either a minimum of 1 year on the job experience or graduate school experience which used LISP programming, preferably in modeling some aspect of human cognition or behavior. 2. B.S. Computer Science with experience, or M.S. /PhD. Computer or Cognitive Science. 3. Experience with ACT-R cognitive architecture; experience with other cognitive architectures will be considered. 4. Self-starter, independent worker capable of creative approaches. 5. Good communication skills, especially technical writing. 6. Experience in parallel programming is desired but not necessary. Job Duties: 1. Work with team to complete detailed design of Human Error Modeling Architecture (HEMA) and HEMETS components. 2. Implement HEMA as extensions and additions to ACT-R. 3. Work with team to design human studies to validate HEMETS error predictions. 4. Work with consultant and PI to insure HEMA integrates with interface to system simulations. 5. Work with team to design an automated subsystem which both explains error cause due to a proposed system design and offers recommendations to eliminate or reduce those errors. 6. Work with team to develop technical papers and presentations for customer (ONR) and cognitive modeling community. Application Applicants should email a resume to mike.fotta at dnamerican.com D.N. American is a small but growing business with working relationships to major corporations, government agencies, and academic and research institutions. D.N. American offers competitive salaries, vacations, educational support and full benefits (medical, dental and life insurance, 401 K plan with company matching). For further information visit http://dnamerican.com The position is in Fairmont WV which is 1 ? hrs south of Pittsburgh, PA, about 3 ? hrs. east of Washington DC. Morgantown, WV, home to 25,000 student West Virginia University is 30 minutes north. Michael E. Fotta, Ph.D. Principal Investigator D.N. American (304) - 363 - 6757 mike.fotta at dnamerican.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grayw at rpi.edu Tue Sep 14 20:23:11 2004 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:23:11 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: Call for Governing Board nominations Message-ID: This is an exciting time for the Cognitive Science Society. Many changes are underway. Consider running for the Governing Board or consider nominating someone to run. Note that like for many other societies, to actually get on the ballot requires more than one nomination. I think the by-laws say something like the x people with the most nominations are put onto the ballot. Cheers, Wayne >From: The Cognitive Science Society >To: Wayne Gray >Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:14:31 GMT >Subject: Call for Governing Board nominations >X-Loop-Detect: 1 >X-CanItPRO-Stream: grayw at rpi.edu >X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.761 () >MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME,RM_fw_FromIsPhras2 >X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) > >To the members of the Cognitive Science Society: > >It is time to begin the process of choosing two new members of the >governing board for terms that will begin in January 2005. Please >submit your nominations for individuals to fill the positions on the >governing board by Thursday, September 30. Voting will begin shortly >after the nomination period closes. Nominations may be sent by email >to Tom Ward at > >tward at bama.ua.edu > >A list of current members of the governing board is available at: >http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/board.html -- **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** Wayne D. Gray; Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Carnegie Building (rm 108) ;;for all surface mail & deliveries 110 8th St.; Troy, NY 12180 EMAIL: grayw at rpi.edu, Office: 518-276-3315, Fax: 518-276-3017 for general information see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ for On-Line publications see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/downloadable_pubs.htm for the CogWorks Lab see: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/ If you just have formalisms or a model you are doing "operations research" or" AI", if you just have data and a good study you are doing "experimental psychology", and if you just have ideas you are doing "philosophy" -- it takes all three to do cognitive science. **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** From taatgen at cmu.edu Wed Sep 15 10:10:04 2004 From: taatgen at cmu.edu (Niels Taatgen) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 16:10:04 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Postdoctoral or Research Programmer in Cognitive Modeling at Carnegie Mellon University Message-ID: Postdoctoral or Research Programmer in Cognitive Modeling at Carnegie Mellon University We are looking for either a postdoctoral researcher or a research programmer for a NASA project titled "The representation and learning of instructions". The goal of this project is to extend our existing ACT-R models of learning from instructions for complex skills to real-world tasks. More specifically, we want to create a model that can learn to execute certain procedures of the Flight Management System (FMS) of a Boeing 777. The project involves programming simulations of the FMS that can be used in both experiments and model simulations, the collection of human data in experiments, and the development of models. Requirements are either a Ph.D. (for a postdoc position) or a MSc. (for a research programmer position) in cognitive science, computer science or cognitive psychology with experience in cognitive modeling, preferably with ACT-R. Programming experience is also required, preferably in Lisp. This position is funded for three years by NASA and offers a highly competitive salary and benefits. To obtain addition information, contact Niels Taatgen (taatgen at cmu.edu) or John Anderson (ja+ at cmu.edu). =============================================== Niels Taatgen - University of Groningen, Artificial Intelligence Also (but not now) at: Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology, BH 345E web: http://www.ai.rug.nl/~niels email: taatgen at cmu.edu Telephone: +1 412-268-2815 (CMU) +31 50 3636435 (RUG) =============================================== From grayw at rpi.edu Thu Sep 16 12:03:55 2004 From: grayw at rpi.edu (Wayne Gray) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:03:55 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: Times News Tracker: AI (1 article) Message-ID: You all should check out the Science Section of today's New York Times. A big article about the cognitive tutors. >From: "NYTimes.com" >To: >Subject: Times News Tracker: AI (1 article) >Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:55:19 -0400 (EDT) >X-CanItPRO-Stream: grayw at rpi.edu >X-RPI-SA-Score: 1.365 (*) >HTML_80_90,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_08,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY >X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) > > > > > Alert Name: > AI > Compiled: 12:19 AM >September 16, 2004 > > > > > > > > > > >TECHNOLOGY | September 16, 2004 >Software >Tutors Offer Help and Customized Hints >By KATIE HAFNER (NYT) >Broadly defined, an intelligent tutoring system is educational >software containing an artificial intelligence component. > > > > > >You can manage your alert in several ways. You can edit your alert >to improve its accuracy, or change the delivery schedule. You >can turn it off for a period of time if you are going on vacation, > or you can delete it altogether. You can also create a new >alert. Visit >the alert management page. > > Change your e-mail address or >sign up for other newsletters. > > > > > >Copyright >2004 The New York Times Company | >Privacy >Policy > > -- **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** Wayne D. Gray; Professor of Cognitive Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Carnegie Building (rm 108) ;;for all surface mail & deliveries 110 8th St.; Troy, NY 12180 EMAIL: grayw at rpi.edu, Office: 518-276-3315, Fax: 518-276-3017 for general information see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/ for On-Line publications see: http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/pubs/downloadable_pubs.htm for the CogWorks Lab see: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/cogworks/ If you just have formalisms or a model you are doing "operations research" or" AI", if you just have data and a good study you are doing "experimental psychology", and if you just have ideas you are doing "philosophy" -- it takes all three to do cognitive science. **Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer**Rensselaer** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mcox at cs.wright.edu Sat Sep 18 03:53:27 2004 From: mcox at cs.wright.edu (Michael T. Cox) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:53:27 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for Papers: Metacognition in Computation Message-ID: <414BE977.2040705@cs.wright.edu> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ljohnso42 at comcast.net Sat Sep 25 11:00:16 2004 From: ljohnso42 at comcast.net (Leo Johnson) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:00:16 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 Message-ID: <001501c4a310$5eacbe80$0000a398@LeoandSylvia> If this is not the proper forum to pose this question, I know someone will direct me immediately to the proper forum where I should direct this question. I am a doctoral student, and in my seminar class we were discussing Anderson's paper "An Integrated Theory of the Mind", and on Page 74 Figure 1 illustrates the basic architecture of ACT-R 5.0. The question arose is to whether the Subsymbolic is represented in Figure1. Some students argued that the Subsymbolic is represented by the Productions in the Basal Ganglia. Others argued that there is no representation of the Subsymbolic in Figure 1 because the Subsymbolic is a set of equations that guide processes, and these processes are not represented in Figure 1. This debate is getting heated, and before it gets out-of-hand, I wonder if anyone can shed light on how to resolve this debate. Leo A. Johnson, Jr. ljohnso42 at comcast.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ljohnso42 at comcast.net Sat Sep 25 11:40:18 2004 From: ljohnso42 at comcast.net (Leo Johnson) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:40:18 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0. References: <24737330.1058283125@whatever.WV.CC.CMU.EDU> Message-ID: <002901c4a315$f65765a0$0000a398@LeoandSylvia> If this is not the proper forum to pose this question, I know someone will direct me immediately to the proper forum where I should direct this question. I am a doctoral student, and in my seminar class we were discussing Anderson 's paper "An Integrated Theory of the Mind", and on Page 74 Figure 1 illustrates the basic architecture of ACT-R 5.0. The question arose is to whether the Subsymbolic is represented in Figure1. Some students argued that the Subsymbolic is represented by the Productions in the Basal Ganglia. Others argued that there is no representation of the Subsymbolic in Figure 1 because the Subsymbolic is a set of equations that guide processes, and these processes are not represented in Figure 1. This debate is getting heated and before it gets out-of-hand, I wonder if anyone can shed light on how to resolve this debate. Leo A. Johnson, Jr. ljohnso42 at comcast.net From R.Belavkin at mdx.ac.uk Tue Sep 28 11:33:59 2004 From: R.Belavkin at mdx.ac.uk (Roman Belavkin) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:33:59 +0100 Subject: [SPAM: 3.266] [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 Message-ID: <45272C367897174E94DEE1D40C5F0CA74AA398@MDX-CLX-DC1.uni.mdx.ac.uk> I believe the "others" are more correct. Subsymbolic information is stored in a form of real numbers associated with each symbol (or pairs of symbols). The equations explain the dynamics of these numbers as functions of various parameters (e.g. time). It is good to remember that equations are models approximating some processes based on what we know about them, and it means they are in no way the final "laws". Kind regards, Roman Bealvkin http://gold.mdx.ac.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: act-r-users-admin at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-admin at act-r.psy.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Leo Johnson Sent: 25 September 2004 16:00 To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu Subject: [SPAM: 3.266] [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 If this is not the proper forum to pose this question, I know someone will direct me immediately to the proper forum where I should direct this question. I am a doctoral student, and in my seminar class we were discussing Anderson's paper "An Integrated Theory of the Mind", and on Page 74 Figure 1 illustrates the basic architecture of ACT-R 5.0. The question arose is to whether the Subsymbolic is represented in Figure1. Some students argued that the Subsymbolic is represented by the Productions in the Basal Ganglia. Others argued that there is no representation of the Subsymbolic in Figure 1 because the Subsymbolic is a set of equations that guide processes, and these processes are not represented in Figure 1. This debate is getting heated, and before it gets out-of-hand, I wonder if anyone can shed light on how to resolve this debate. Leo A. Johnson, Jr. ljohnso42 at comcast.net This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. From Glenn.Gunzelmann at mesa.afmc.af.mil Tue Sep 28 12:53:15 2004 From: Glenn.Gunzelmann at mesa.afmc.af.mil (Glenn.Gunzelmann at mesa.afmc.af.mil) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:53:15 -0700 Subject: [SPAM: 3.266] [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 Message-ID: <671474002216D14B8D440C71877F9A8D0843AA@FSQBGE07.williams.afmc.ds.af.mil> I actually think that the sentence in the abstract gives you a relatively straightforward answer to the question: "Subsymbolic processes serve to guide the selection of rules to fire as well as the internal operations of some modules." So, there is a component of the figure that refers to the selection of production rules, a process that depends on subsymbolic values and computations... score one for those who say it represented in the Basal Ganglia (specifically the Pallidum).* *Do note, however, that the subsymbolic layer is not represented by the production rules, rather the subsymbolic layer is the set of processes that determine which production rule is executed on a give cycle. On the other hand, there is another set of subsymbolic values and processes that operate within the modules. For instance, there is a subsymbolic component to the declarative module that controls (1) which chunk is retrieved from declarative memory when a particular request is made and (2) how long that retrieval will take to execute... score one for those who say it is not represented in the figure.** **Although, if one really wanted it to be there, there is a sense in which the arrows connecting the buffers to the modules represent *some* of these processes. There are others, however, that are really internal to the particular modules. -Glenn > -----Original Message----- > From: Roman Belavkin [mailto:R.Belavkin at mdx.ac.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 8:34 AM > To: Leo Johnson; act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > Subject: RE: [SPAM: 3.266] [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 > > > I believe the "others" are more correct. Subsymbolic information is stored > in a form of real numbers associated with each symbol (or pairs of > symbols). The equations explain the dynamics of these numbers as functions > of various parameters (e.g. time). It is good to remember that equations > are models approximating some processes based on what we know about them, > and it means they are in no way the final "laws". > > Kind regards, > Roman Bealvkin > http://gold.mdx.ac.uk/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: act-r-users-admin at act-r.psy.cmu.edu [mailto:act-r-users-admin at act- > r.psy.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Leo Johnson > Sent: 25 September 2004 16:00 > To: act-r-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > Subject: [SPAM: 3.266] [ACT-R-users] Subsymbolic in ACT-R 5.0 > > > If this is not the proper forum to pose this question, I know someone will > direct me immediately to the proper forum where I should direct this > question. > > I am a doctoral student, and in my seminar class we were discussing > Anderson's paper "An Integrated Theory of the Mind", and on Page 74 Figure > 1 illustrates the basic architecture of ACT-R 5.0. The question arose is > to whether the Subsymbolic is represented in Figure1. Some students > argued that the Subsymbolic is represented by the Productions in the Basal > Ganglia. Others argued that there is no representation of the Subsymbolic > in Figure 1 because the Subsymbolic is a set of equations that guide > processes, and these processes are not represented in Figure 1. This > debate is getting heated, and before it gets out-of-hand, I wonder if > anyone can shed light on how to resolve this debate. > > Leo A. Johnson, Jr. > ljohnso42 at comcast.net > > > > > This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any > attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are > advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > ACT-R-users mailing list > ACT-R-users at act-r.psy.cmu.edu > http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/act-r-users