[ACT-R-users] Summer Workshop

[Richard M Young]

Hello John,

(Privately to you, but to feed into discussion at your discretion.)

Let me take a consistent line, even if I don't necessarily fully believe it:

6.  There is a 6th possibility, which is that ICCM *doesn't* go 
annual but remains on its present twice-in-3-years cycle.  That means 
that the problem arises only when ICCM in Europe coincides with Cog 
Sci in Europe, which is why the time of ICCM has shifted for 2009. 
With the 3-year cycle for ICCM and the 4-year cycle for Cog Sci, this 
means (I think) that the situation won't arise again for another 12 
years, so we can simply deal with 2009/2010 as a one-off event and 
not change the present policy.

Best,
~ Richard

At 10:46 -0400 19/3/08, John Anderson wrote:
>Let me add some information to the ACT-R workshop announcement
>
>First, I am pleased to say that our invited speaker will be John
>Laird and the title of his presentation will be
>
>"The future of cognitive architecture: up, down, and sideways"
>
>This is particularly apt as we will be facing an issue at the
>workshop which we need to decide about as a group and perhaps I can
>start your thinking about this now:
>
>The issue is that ICCM will be in the summer for both 2009
>(Manchester) and 2010 (Drexel) and we have traditionally not had
>ACT-R workshops when there is a summer ICCM.  This is because the
>overlap in presentations at the two is too great.   Moreover, one
>might expect that this will prove to be the transition to yearly
>summer ICCM's permanently bringing to question the ACT-R workshop.
>There are at least 5 responses to this:
>
>1.  Just have the Summer Workshops independent of ICCM.
>2. Drop the workshops with no replacements but this means that there
>will be no good opportunities for community discussion.
>3. Have a 1-day special interest meeting before ICCM like we did last
>year (but probably not a tutorial) but this is a rather rushed
>opportunity for discussion.
>4.  Have a retreat focused on discussion like the 2001 Post Graduate
>School but this is very demanding of people's time right before ICCM.
>5.  Move to another time like a Winter workshop (perhaps on the beach
>or ski slope) but there are lots of problems of venue, timing, and
>cost.
>
>Rather than unilaterally deciding the matter this will be a point of
>discussion at this summer's workshop.  Maybe some of you have other
>ideas or relevant information.
>--