From ion.juvina at wright.edu  Sun Aug  2 19:07:34 2020
From: ion.juvina at wright.edu (Juvina, Ion)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 23:07:34 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: Industry Job Opportunity - Cognitive Scientist
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FYI:

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From: Brandon Minnery <brad at KAIROS-RESEARCH.COM<mailto:brad at KAIROS-RESEARCH.COM>>
Subject: Industry Job Opportunity - Cognitive Scientist
Date: August 2, 2020 at 10:36:32 AM EDT
To: MATHPSYCH at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<mailto:MATHPSYCH at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Reply-To: Brandon Minnery <brad at KAIROS-RESEARCH.COM<mailto:brad at KAIROS-RESEARCH.COM>>

Greetings!

Kairos Research is seeking to hire a creative, PhD-level Cognitive Scientist to help support our expanding Government-funded research portfolio in human and machine cognition.

BACKGROUND:
Kairos Research is a small business located in Dayton, OH, performing basic and applied research at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence. Current projects span topics such as human and machine collective intelligence, explainable AI, counterfactual reasoning in intelligence analysis, human performance optimization, and social media bot detection and threat characterization. The Cognitive Scientist position is a full-time, permanent position. As the company grows, the Cognitive Scientist will have the opportunity to initiate, lead and contribute to a wide range of research projects involving human and machine cognition.

REQUIRED:
1) PhD in Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, or Social Behavioral Sciences. Individuals with doctoral degrees in related disciplines may also apply.
2) Creative mindset. We seek candidates who enjoy developing their own original research ideas, who appreciate lively brainstorming sessions, and who are willing to venture outside their technical comfort zones.
3) Experience in designing and running experiments involving human participants, including familiarity with IRB procedures and processes.
4) Exceptional computational and data analysis skills. The candidate must be familiar with current best practices in statistical data analysis.
5) Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
6) Candidates must be either US citizens, permanent residents (green card holders), or eligible for permanent resident status.

PREFERRED:
(NOTE: No single candidate is expected to have all of these attributes.)
1) 2 years or more of postdoctoral experience.
2) Prior experience on research projects funded by the US Department of Defense (e.g., DARPA, ONR, AFRL, ARO) involving national security-related topics and use cases.
3) Experience with collective intelligence research topics and paradigms, including ?wisdom of crowds? and team cognition.
4) Experience running experiments using online, distributed participant populations (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk).
5) Expertise in one or more cognitive modeling paradigms, such as ACT-R or Bayesian modeling frameworks.
6) Familiarity with current approaches in statistical AI and machine learning.
COMPENSATION: Kairos Research offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, with salary commensurate with experience.
CONTACT: Interested individuals should send CVs to:
Brandon (Brad) Minnery, PhD
brad at kairos-research.com<mailto:brad at kairos-research.com>

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From frank.ritter at PSU.EDU  Mon Aug 10 13:33:42 2020
From: frank.ritter at PSU.EDU (Frank Ritter)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 13:33:42 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] Fwd: Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive
	Systems
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There is a lot of good and interesting work at this meeting. There are 
talks, posters, invited talks, and mentoring sessions. Note that the 
times are Pacific (California) times on the schedule.

I should have sent this out earlier. It is free, and you should 
seriously consider using this resource.

cheers,

Frank Ritter



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Subject: 	Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems
Resent-Date: 	Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:32:08 -0400
Resent-From: 	fer2 at psu.edu
Date: 	Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:31:25 -0700
From: 	Pat Langley <patrick.w.langley at gmail.com>
To: 	Advances in Cognitive Systems <acs at cogsys.org>



Dear Colleagues,

The Herbert A. Simon Prize recognizes scientists who have made
important and sustained contributions to understanding human and
machine intelligence through the design, creation, and study of
computational artifacts that exhibit high-level cognition.

The Cognitive Systems Foundation and the Herbert Simon Society
co-sponsor the Prize, which comes with a cash award of $10,000.
Last year, after considering some excellent candidates, the selection
committee decided that:

The recipient of the 2019 Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances
in Cognitive Systems is Patrick Henry Winston, for his seminal
research on concept learning, analogy, common-sense reasoning,
and story processing, which he saw as key to understanding
intelligence, and for his textbooks, courses, and videos, which
educated generations of students in artificial intelligence.

Because Patrick Winston cannot present his prize address, we have
organized a symposium in his honor, with four talks by researchers
he mentored during his career, at the Eighth Annual Conference on
Advances in Cognitive Systems (http://www.cogsys.org/conference/2020/),
where we will also announce the winner of the 2020 Simon Prize.

The virtual three-day conference, hosted by PARC, will take place next
week from Monday, August 10, to Wednesday, August 12. Registration
is free at https://advancesincognitivesystems.github.io/acs/, which also
links to the meeting schedule. The Winston symposium will be on Tuesday
from 12:45 pm to 2:30 pm Pacific time. I hope many of you can attend.

Sincerely,

Pat Langley, Director
Cognitive Systems Foundation


From maria.wirzberger at ife.uni-stuttgart.de  Fri Aug 28 13:32:15 2020
From: maria.wirzberger at ife.uni-stuttgart.de (Wirzberger, Maria)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:32:15 +0000
Subject: [ACT-R-users] PhD position with focus on modeling cognitive load in
 instructional design
Message-ID: <CD057179-8A89-474E-A4AE-94376671433A@ife.uni-stuttgart.de>

Dear valued colleagues,

Currently, I have an open position for a PhD student in my newly established department at the University of Stuttgart, Germany (https://www.ife.uni-stuttgart.de/en/llis/). Our research combines educational theories with psychological methods and algorithms from artificial intelligence to develop intelligent educational technologies.

The position focuses on the on the formal modeling and decomposition of cognitive load factors in learning scenarios with ACT-R and includes the validation of model predictions with neurophysiological data: https://bwsyncandshare.kit.edu/s/7rYkKi8F4QRyNHR

Please feel free to share the announcement with potentially interested candidates!

Many thanks in advance for your support!

Best regards,
Maria

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Assist. Prof. Dr. Maria Wirzberger
Department of Teaching and learning with intelligent systems

University of Stuttgart
Institute of Educational Science
Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24D
70174 Stuttgart, Germany

LEAD Graduate School & Research Network
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Office:  3.351
Phone: +49 711 685 - 81176
Email:  maria.wirzberger at ife.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:maria.wirzberger at ife.uni-stuttgart.de>
Web:    https://www.ife.uni-stuttgart.de/en/llis/ | https://maria-wirzberger.de

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From db30 at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Aug 28 16:42:23 2020
From: db30 at andrew.cmu.edu (db30 at andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:42:23 -0400
Subject: [ACT-R-users] ACT-R software updated
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The ACT-R software available from the website has
been updated.  The new version includes the changes
described at the Workshop, some additional work to
improve the performance under SBCL, and a fix for
the Windows standalone since a recent Windows update
broke the previous application for some users.  The
slides from the Workshop talk are available here:

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/bothell_2020_ACT-R_Software_Updates.pdf>

This update is a little later than usual, and it may
be the case that people have already started using
the previous materials for class work.  If you still
want to use the previous version it is available at:

<http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/act-r-7-14-software/>

and there is also a link to that on the old software
page (which is linked from the main software page).
The Windows standalone with that previous version has
also been fixed.

Dan