From aoltrama at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Jun 3 21:41:39 2011 From: aoltrama at andrew.cmu.edu (Alessandro Oltramari) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 21:41:39 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: MSW2 References: <201106031936.p53JamGE018129@DSX4000-4.tagadab.com> Message-ID: <84F073E1-BFBA-47C9-A4C1-686EB9F990CB@andrew.cmu.edu> ****************************************************************************** First Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on the Multilingual Semantic Web, collocated with the 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2011) in Bonn, Germany. http://msw2.deri.ie Given the substantial growth of Web users that create and update knowledge all over the world in languages other than English, multilingualism has become an issue of major interest for the Semantic Web community. This process has been accelerated due to initiatives such as the Linked Data project, which encourages not only governments and public institutes to make their data available to the public, but also private organizations in domains such as medicine, geography, music etc. These actors often publish their data sources in their respective languages, and as such, in order to make this information interoperable and accessible to members of other linguistic communities, multilingual knowledge representation, access and translation are an impending need. Given the success of the first edition of this workshop, which was co-located with the 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), we were encouraged to organize the second version of this series. In this second edition we will have a special focus on: ? representation of multilingual information and language resources in Semantic Web and Linked Data formats ? cross-lingual discovery and representation of mappings between multilingual Linked Data vocabularies and datasets ? cross-lingual querying of knowledge repositories and Linked Data ? machine translation and localization strategies for the Semantic Web Further topics of interest include: ? standards and best practices for representing multilingual data on the Web ? transformation of (multilingual) resources to Semantic Web and Linked Data representations ? architectures and infrastructure for a truly multilingual Semantic Web ? models for multilingualism in knowledge representation, in particular OWL and RDF(S) ? localization of ontologies to multiple languages, incl. label translation, multilingual terms ? lexicon models for ontologies ? automatic integration of (multilingual) lexicons with ontologies ? multilingual and cross-lingual ontology-based information extraction and ontology population ? multilingual aspects of semantic search of knowledge repositories ? multilingual aspects of ontology verbalization ? ontology learning across languages Important Dates August 15th - submission deadline September 5th - notification September 10th - camera-ready deadline October 23th or 24th - workshop Submission will be through the Easy Chair system: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=msw2. We will accept long papers of at most 12 pages (LNCS), short papers describing preliminary results (max. 6 pages) as well as position papers describing work on progress or planned work (max. 6 pages). Organizing Committee Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, OEG - Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Web: http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phd/52-emontiel John McCrae, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC ? University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/people/jmccrae Paul Buitelaar, DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway Web: http://www.paulbuitelaar.net/ Philipp Cimiano, Semantic Computing Group, CITEC ? University of Bielefeld Web: http://www.cimiano.de Program Committee Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, OEG, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Dimitra Anastasiou, Language & Literary Studies, University of Bremen, Germany Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT, Knowledge Engineering, Cognition and Cooperation, France Roberto Basili, Universita Tor Vergata, Rome - Artificial Intelligence group, Italy Kalina Boncheva - Natural Language Processing Group, University of Sheffield, UK Francis Bond, NICT - Language Infrastructure Group, Japan Christopher Brewster, Aston University - Operations and Information Management Group, UK Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR - Computational Linguistics Institute, Italy Jeremy Carroll, TopQuadrant, USA Key-Sun Choi, KAIST - Semantic Web Research Center, South-Korea Thierry Declerck, DFKI - Language Technology Lab, Germany Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR - Semantic Technology Laboratory, Italy Asuncion G?mez P?rez, OEG, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France Siegfried Handschuh, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Galway, Ireland Laura Hollink, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group, the Netherlands Ernesto William De Luca, Universitaet Magdeburg - Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, Germany Vanessa L?pez, KMI, Open University, UK Gerard de Melo, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland - Institute for Language and Information Technologies, USA Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Psychology, Pittsburgh, USA Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI - Semantic Media Interfaces & VU - Intelligent Systems, the Netherlands Wim Peters, University of Sheffield - Natural Language Processing group, UK Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa - School of Computing, South-Africa James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University ? CS Dept., Lab for Linguistics and Computation, USA Felix Sasaki, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany Marta Sabou, Department of New Media Technology ? MODUL University, Vienna Martin Volk, Universitaet Z?rich - Institute of Computational Linguistics, Switzerland Piek Vossen, Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Language, Cognition and Communication, the Netherlands Yong Yu, Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China The workshop is endorsed and sponsored by the Monnet project (http://www.monnet-project.eu) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhang at cis.uab.edu Tue Jun 14 12:12:45 2011 From: zhang at cis.uab.edu (Chengcui Zhang) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:12:45 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [ACT-R-users] CFP: TAAI 2011 Conferences on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <1644794962.116768.1308067965425.JavaMail.root@zimbra.cis.uab.edu> Call For Papers: TAAI 2011 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence Taoyuan, Taiwan, November 11-13, 2011 http://taai2011.cse.yzu.edu.tw/ Important Dates ============ * Paper submissions due: July 12, 2011. * Notification of acceptance: August 17, 2011. * Camera-ready final papers due: September 1, 2011. * Tournament registration due: September 8, 2011. Introduction ========= The 2011 Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2011) is the 16th annual conference sponsored by the Taiwanese Association for AI and one of the most important annual academic meetings on Artificial Intelligence in Taiwan. Last year, TAAI has attracted more than 200 people with a great success. This year, TAAI will be in conjunction with the third Asia Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2011) to be co-located in Taoyuan, Taiwan and will feature more than five invited speakers/tutorials and computer game tournament as well. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners in different disciplines and researchers to present and exchange ideas, results and experiences in the area of AI technologies and applications. The conference also includes workshops, tournament and technical sessions with refereed papers from the AI research community. High quality research papers are solicited on the topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Agents * AI Applications * AI Architectures * Computer Games * Computer Vision * Data Mining * Genetic Algorithms * Information Retrieval and Integration * Intelligent Environment * Intelligent e-learning * Logics in AI * Knowledge-Based Systems * Machine Learning * Mobile Intelligence * Knowledge Representation * Natural Language Processing * Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning * Planning * Robotics * Semantic Web * Social Computing * Speech Recognition and Synthesis * Problem Solving and Search * Web Intelligence Invited Speakers ============== Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Ted Selker, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Paper Submission =============== Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above and related topics are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum of 6 pages (using the IEEE two- column template). The same format will be used for final camera-ready papers (see Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting ). Electronic abstract and paper should be submitted through the TAAI 2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=taai2011 All submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the conference to present the work. Paper Publications =============== The conference proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (IEEE CPS) and will be indexed by IEEE digital library. Accepted papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of Journal of Information Science and Engineering (SCI indexed). Tutorials (in conjunction with ACML 2011) ================================= Participants will be able to attend the ACML tutorials lectured by Prof. Wee Sun Lee (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Koji Tsuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan). Workshops & Tournament ===================== TAAI 2011 invites proposals for half- or full-day workshops. Workshops are expected to focus on new research directions and applications on artificial intelligence. Each workshop will solicit papers for peer review. Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to Workshop Chairs ( sjyen at mail.cs.ndhu.edu.tw ) by June 1, 2011. Accepted Workshops ================= International Workshop on Computer Games (IWCG 2011) Computer game tournament Organizing Committee ================== Honorary Chair Pei-Chann Chang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Conference Co-Chairs Jane Yung-Jen Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng, Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Ming-Syan Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hong-Yuan Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Baw Jhiune Liu, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan Stuart H. Rubin, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, United States Junichi Tsujii, National Center for Text Mining (NacTeM), Manchester, United Kingdom Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Program Chairs Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Publication Chair Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan Local Chair Jen-Wei Huang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Cheng-Zen Yang, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Publicity Chair Chuan-Kang Ting, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Shi-Jim Yen, National Dong Hwa University Registration Chair Chien-Feng Huang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Senior Program Committee ======================== Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Naveen Ashish, University of California-Irvine, USA Tristan Cazenave, Universite Paris Dauphine, France Berlin Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Keh-Hsun Chen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Shu-Yuan Chen, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Shyi-Ming Chen, Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Cheng-Seen Ho, Tungnan University, Taiwan Tsung Pei Hong, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Chunnan Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Frank Hsu, Fordham University, USA Hui-Huang Hsu, Tamkang University, Taiwan Shun-Chin Hsu, Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan Tsan-Sheng Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yuh-Jyh Hu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Xiangji Huang, York University, Canada Tan Ah Hwee, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yau-Hwang Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan K Robert Lai, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan Chang-Shing Lee, National University of Tainan, Taiwan Yuh-Jye Lee, Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Churn-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Shun-Shii Lin, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan Wen-Yang Lin, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Tetsuya Murai, Hokkaido University, Japan Tomoharu Nakashima, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan Jeng-Shyang Pan, Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Zbigniew W Ras, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA Lipo Wang, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore Anita Wasilewska, Stony Brook University, USA I-Chen Wu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Jean-Daniel Zucker, Institut de Recherche pour le Development, France -- Chengcui Zhang Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham _______________________________________________ ieeeauthors mailing list ieeeauthors at cis.uab.edu http://crier.cis.uab.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieeeauthors From npa at zmms.tu-berlin.de Mon Jun 20 08:39:08 2011 From: npa at zmms.tu-berlin.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Nele_Ru=DFwinkel?=) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:39:08 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ICCM 2012 in Berlin --- Call for Paper Message-ID: <4DFF3F6C.1040307@zmms.tu-berlin.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE MODELING (ICCM) 2012 April 12 - 15, 2011 Berlin, Germany Conference Web Site: http://www.iccm2012.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** About the Conference ** The International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) is the premier conference for research on computational models and computation-based theories of human behavior. ICCM is a forum for presenting, discussing, and evaluating the complete spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. ICCM includes basic and applied research, across a wide variety of domains, ranging from low-level perception and attention to higher-level problem-solving and learning. ICCM 2012 will be held in Berlin, Germany, on the campus of Technische Universit?t Berlin. The main conference will be held April 13-15, 2012. Full-day and half-day tutorials and specialized workshops will be organized on April 12, 2012 to disseminate new insights, knowledge, and skills from a broad range of areas in the field of cognitive modeling ** Deadlines ** Paper submission: December 15th, 2011 Abstract submission (for poster presentation): February 21st, 2012 Symposia: A short proposal has to be submitted before October 1st to symposia at iccm2012.com, including a provisional title, short abstract and a list of to be invited people. Full proposal is due December 15th, 2011. We hope to see you in Berlin, Nele Ru?winkel Uwe Drewitz Jeronimo Dzaack Hedderik van Rijn For more information, please visit http://www.iccm2012.com/ or write to contact at iccm2012.com. From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed Jun 22 15:26:50 2011 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel Shvaiko) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:26:50 +0200 Subject: [ACT-R-users] 2nd CFP: ISWC'11 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2011) Message-ID: <843B86C2843D488BB4A16321F73ED9B4@ITN96946> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sixth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2011) http://om2011.ontologymatching.org/ October 23 or 24, 2011, ISWC Workshop Program, Bonn, Germany BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2011 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/. The particular focus of this year's OAEI campaign is on real-world specific matching tasks involving, e.g., open linked data and biomedical ontologies. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., open government data); Requirements to matching from specific domains; Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios; Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching patterns; Instance matching and data interlinking; Large-scale matching evaluation; Performance of matching techniques; Matcher selection and self-configuration; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Alignment management; Reasoning with alignments; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2011 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2011 Contributors to the OAEI 2011 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2011/. IMPORTANT DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 15, 2011: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 12, 2011: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 26, 2011: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23 or 24, 2011: OM-2011, the Maritim convention center, Bonn, Germany ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (Main contact) TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Tom Heath Talis Systems Ltd, UK 4. Christoph Quix RWTH Aachen University, Germany 5. Ming Mao SAP Labs, USA 6. Isabel Cruz The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Paolo Besana, University of Edinburgh, UK Chris Bizer, University of Berlin, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Paolo Bouquet, OKKAM, Italy Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Gabriele Francescotto, OpenContent, Italy Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Bin He, IBM, USA Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA Anja Jentzsch, FU-Berlin, Germany Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Monika Lanzenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Rob Lemmens, ITC, The Netherlands Maurizio Lenzerini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Peter Mork, The MITRE Corporation, USA Nico Lavarini, Cogito, Italy Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Natasha Noy, Stanford University, USA Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Matteo Palmonari, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy Yefei Peng, Google, USA Evan Sandhaus, New York Times, USA Luciano Serafini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn dos Santos, INRIA & LIG, France Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Innovation and Research Manager TasLab, Informatica Trentina SpA, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rsun at rpi.edu Wed Jun 22 16:14:09 2011 From: rsun at rpi.edu (Professor Ron Sun) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:14:09 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] Call for 2011 INNS Senior Member nominations Message-ID: <586B8D36-4694-47ED-A270-15DEA503764A@rpi.edu> INNS Membership Progression Scheme 2011 The International Neural Network Society (INNS) is the organization for individuals interested in a theoretical and computational understanding of the brain/mind and applying that knowledge to develop new and more effective forms of machine intelligence. INNS was formed in 1987 by the leading scientists in the neural network field. The field of neural networks encourages interdisciplinary perspectives, and INNS' membership reflects this diversity. Members represent a variety of fields, backgrounds and level of interest. INNS has introduced a new membership category of Senior Member (SM) to recognize INNS members for their contributions, and to allow for a progression of the INNS members to a higher recognition membership status. We call for 2011 Senior Member nominations. For 2011, on-line senior membership nomination and application can be made through the website at: or alternatively, you can sent via e-mail a nomination letter and a CV of the candidate to the INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King under the Subject line: ?2011 INNS Senior Membership Nomination for [Applicant's Name]?, on or before July 22, 2011. Final confirmation of the 2011 Senior Members will be made by the INNS Board of Governors and appropriate announcements will then be made, at least on the INNS website, www.inns.org, and in the Tri-Society Newsletter. INNS Membership Information: As of 2011, INNS has three types of confirmed membership categories: ? Student (payment 1 year $25; 2 years $35) ? Regular member (1 year $85; 2 years $125) ? Affiliate member (1 year $30; 2 years $40) for ENNS and JNNS members only Every INNS member receives, for example: ? A reduced fee to attend the annual IJCNN conference and the biennial INNS Symposia, as well as many other INNS co-sponsored conferences worldwide ? A subscription to the Tri-Society Newsletter ? A subscription to the flagship journal Neural Networks * Participation in many special interest groups and regional chapters etc. etc. For further information, contact: INNS VP for Membership, Irwin King ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President, International Neural Network Society Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA web: http://sites.google.com/site/drronsun ======================================================= From susan.chipman at gmail.com Fri Jun 24 17:18:54 2011 From: susan.chipman at gmail.com (Susan Chipman) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:18:54 -0400 Subject: [ACT-R-users] ONR intelligent tutoring opportunity that comes as a surprise to me Message-ID: In the past a call like this -- focused on middle school -- would have been taboo at ONR. I would think basic electricity and electronics might be the best topic because of the Phase II requirement for use in Navy training. Basic electricity and electronics is the largest single topic in Navy training. ONR Announces Multimillion-Dollar 'STEM Grand Challenge' Office of Naval Research Corporate Strategic Communications 875 N. Randolph St., #1225-D Arlington, Va. 22203.1771 Office: (703) 696.5031 Fax: (703) 696.5940 Email: onrcsc at onr.navy.mil Web: www.onr.navy.mil Facebook: www.facebook.com/officeofnavalresearch *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 15, 2011* By the Office of Naval Research ALEXANDRIA, Va.? Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Nevin Carrannounced an incentive plan to award up to $8 million for ideas aimed at boosting K-12 education in the sciences during a June15-16 conference in Alexandria, Va. ?Today?s approaches to training and education must seek new innovative ways to sustain America?s position as a global technology leader,? Carr told the more than 650 government, academia and business leaders gathered at the Naval Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) forum. ?I wouldn?t begin to pretend that the Navy is going to solve the country?s STEM problem?there are others out there working very hard to do that,? Carr continued, ?but we also want to make sure we are all intersected in a way that we can get the most out of the collective.? The challenge is one of many efforts the Navy has developed to encourage students, parents and teachers to pursue STEM education and careers. Through its STEM initiatives, the Navy seeks to increase the talent pool of future Sailors, naval scientists and engineers. The Navy will award up to $1.5 million to each Phase One selectee. Teams will compete to advance to Phase Two. In the second stage, up to two teams will be awarded as much as $1 million each to extend their Phase One success to a Navy training challenge for another year. The technologies will be designed to meet students? individual learning style. ONR will issue the proposal as part of its Long-Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps science and technology efforts. Contract awards are expected in fiscal 2012 and ONR officials anticipate multiple awards for Phase One. In Phase One, participating Grand Challenge teams must develop an intelligent tutor, a system that uses computers and provides direct customized instruction to augment the classroom and serve as an aid for teaching middle to high school STEM curriculum. Teams will be evaluated on how well they demonstrate significant student improvement in retention, reasoning and problem solving, at an affordable cost. Based on these results, up to two teams will be selected to advance to Phase Two. In Phase Two, selected team(s) must adapt their ?tutor,? or software, to effectively address Department of the Navy-specific training audiences and criteria. The winning team will be able to demonstrate a tutor that cost effectively produces significant improvements similar to its Phase One effort. For more details on the STEM Grand Challenge, contact Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Cohn at joseph.cohn at navy.mil or Dr. Ray Perez at ray.perez at navy.mil. About the Office of Naval Research The Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) provides the science and technology necessary to maintain the Navy and Marine Corps' technological advantage. Through its affiliates, ONR is a leader in science and technology with engagement in 50 states, 70 countries, 1,035 institutions of higher learning and 914 industry partners. ONR employs approximately 1,400 people, comprising uniformed, civilian and contract personnel, with additional employees at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. KEYWORDS: Office of Naval Research, ONR, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, STEM, Naval STEM Grand Challenge, Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, chief of naval research, Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Cohn, Dr. Ray Perez, intelligent tutor. [image: Image - CNR Carr at Naval STEM Forum] Office of Naval Research Corporate Strategic Communications 875 N. Randolph St., #1225-D Arlington, Va. 22203.1771 Office: (703) 696.5031 Fax: (703) 696.5940 Email: onrcsc at onr.navy.mil Web: www.onr.navy.mil Facebook: www.facebook.com/officeofnavalresearch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: